ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS SYNTHESISED IN MICROWAVE PLASMA TORCH DISCHARGE

1 TOMAN Jozef
Co-authors:
1 JAŠEK Ondřej 2 PRÁŠEK Jan 1 JURMANOVÁ Jana
Institutions:
1 Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic, jtoman@mail.muni.cz
2 Centre of Sensors, Information and Communication Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Technická 3058/10, 61600 Brno, Czech Republic
Conference:
9th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, October 18th - 20th 2017
Proceedings:
Proceedings 9th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application
Pages:
88-93
ISBN:
978-80-87294-81-9
ISSN:
2694-930X
Published:
8th March 2018
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

In the present work, 2-dimensional graphene nanosheets were synthesized, characterized and subsequently modified for gas sensor and electrochemical measurements. We used microwave plasma torch discharge (2.45 GHz) operating at atmospheric pressure conditions. Argon was used as the working gas and ethanol vapors, carried by argon, were used as precursor for carbon nanosheets synthesis. Characteristic high surface-to-volume ratio of prepared material, together with structural defects and various chemical groups on the surface serve as powerful combination for fast conductance changes upon adsorption. Therefore, prepared material consisting of graphene nanosheets was modified to perform different electrochemical measurements including gas sensing of ammonia and cyclic voltammetry characterization using several redox species. Our samples were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain an exact insight into the behavior of prepared sensors.

Keywords: graphene, electrochemistry, sensor, microwave plasma

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