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A model for disorder in fluorine-intercalated graphite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

S.L. di Vittorio
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
M.S. Dresselhaus
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
G. Dresselhaus
Affiliation:
Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Abstract

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The structural and electronic properties of fluorine- and bromine-intercalated graphite fibers and HOPG are summarized. In contrast to the bromine intercalate, which is purely ionic for any experimentally attainable intercalate concentration, fluorine has a dual ionic and covalent behavior in graphite. Furthermore, whereas bromine-intercalated graphite is ordered, fluorine-intercalated graphite is disordered. The stiff graphene planes are buckled and islands of various fluorine concentrations are formed. A thermodynamic model is proposed that accounts for the differences between fluorine- and bromine-intercalated graphite materials. The model describes the competition between ionically bonded and covalently bonded intercalate phases of fluorine in graphite. Covalent bonding is more favorable energetically, but an important nucleation barrier exists due to strain and to the destruction of the conjugation of the double bonds.

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