Grain boundaries produced during material synthesis affect both the intrinsic properties of
materials and their potential for high‐end applications. This effect is commonly observed in …

Two dimensional (2D) nanomaterials are promising fundamental building blocks for use in
the next-generation semiconductor industry due to their unique geometry and excellent …

Synthesis of large‐scale single‐crystalline graphene monolayers without multilayers
involves the fabrication of proper single‐crystalline substrates and the ubiquitous formation …

Due to its semiconducting nature, controlled growth of large-area chemical vapor deposition
(CVD)-grown two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has a lot of potential …

Since the first isolation of graphene over a decade ago, research into graphene has
exponentially increased due to its excellent electrical, optical, mechanical and chemical …

Single crystal graphene (SCG) has attracted enormous attention for its unique potential for
next‐generation high‐performance optoelectronics. In the absence of grain boundaries, the …

Ever since the more than decade-old discovery of the mechanical exfoliation method for
graphene isolation, this miraculous 2-dimensional material is still widely used in various …

Copper foil impurities are hampering scalable production of high-quality graphene by
chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Here, we conduct a thorough study on the origin of these …

Understanding and controlling the growth kinetics of graphene is a prerequisite to
synthesize this highly wanted material by chemical vapor deposition on Cu, eg for the …

Graphene exhibits high carrier mobility and concentration as well as other remarkable
properties. Among them, the thermal behaviors of phonon modes play important roles in the …