Research Article

High Temperature Vacuum Annealing and Hydrogenation Modification of Exfoliated Graphite Nanoplatelets

Table 2

The C1s peak position and the relative atomic percentage of various functional groups, corresponding to the deconvoluted peaks in Figure 5.

MaterialC1s subpeak binding energy (eV) (bond-allocated carbon concentration (atomic%))
123456
sp2 Csp3 CC–O/C–O–CC=OO–C=Oπ-π*

GNP284.68 (53.87)285.22 (32.75)286.18 (7.14)287.68 (2.01)289.18 (2.93)290.67 (1.30)
GNP annealed, no exposure to air284.79 (69.44)285.95 (24.83)286.29 (0.81)287.79 (0.88)289.29 (0.98)290.83 (3.06)
GNP annealed then exposed to air284.78 (59.23)285.45 (27.79)286.28 (7.25)287.78 (1.29)289.28 (2.76)290.53 (1.67)
GNP-H284.74 (69.63)285.80 (24.51)286.24 (1.61)287.74 (1.05)289.24 (1.05)290.39 (2.16)