Kinetics of graphene and 2D materials growth

J Dong, L Zhang, F Ding - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
During the last 10 years, remarkable achievements on the chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
growth of 2D materials have been made, but the understanding of the underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Production and processing of graphene and related materials

C Backes, AM Abdelkader, C Alonso… - 2D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of the main techniques for production and processing of graphene
and related materials (GRMs), as well as the key characterization procedures. We adopt …

Direct Observation of Graphene Growth and Associated Copper Substrate Dynamics by in Situ Scanning Electron Microscopy

ZJ Wang, G Weinberg, Q Zhang, T Lunkenbein… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
This work highlights the importance of in situ experiments for an improved understanding of
graphene growth on copper via metal-catalyzed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) …

Understanding and controlling Cu-catalyzed graphene nucleation: the role of impurities, roughness, and oxygen scavenging

P Braeuninger-Weimer, B Brennan… - Chemistry of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The mechanism by which Cu catalyst pretreatments control graphene nucleation density in
scalable chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is systematically explored. The intrinsic and …

Comparing graphene growth on Cu (111) versus oxidized Cu (111)

S Gottardi, K Müller, L Bignardi, JC Moreno-López… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The epitaxial growth of graphene on catalytically active metallic surfaces via chemical vapor
deposition (CVD) is known to be one of the most reliable routes toward high-quality large …

Cooperative island growth of large-area single-crystal graphene on copper using chemical vapor deposition

G Eres, M Regmi, CM Rouleau, J Chen, IN Ivanov… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this work we explore the kinetics of single-crystal graphene growth as a function of
nucleation density. In addition to the standard methods for suppressing nucleation of …

Suppressing graphene nucleation during CVD on polycrystalline Cu by controlling the carbon content of the support foils

J Kraus, M Böbel, S Günther - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
The oxidative carbon removal from Cu foils was systematically studied together with the
resulting suppression of the graphene flake nucleation during subsequent chemical vapor …

Copper oxide as a “self-cleaning” substrate for graphene growth

CW Magnuson, X Kong, H Ji, C Tan, H Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Commonly used techniques for cleaning copper substrates before graphene growth via
chemical vapor deposition (CVD), such as rinsing with acetone, nitric, and acetic acid, and …

Graphene Nucleation Preferentially at Oxygen-Rich Cu Sites Rather Than on Pure Cu Surface.

T Liang, G He, G Huang, Y Kong, W Fu… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2015 - europepmc.org
Graphene nucleation at oxygen-rich Cu sites instead of on the commonly assumed pure Cu
surface is discovered using high-spatial-resolution scanning Auger electron microscopy …

Exploring oxygen in graphene chemical vapor deposition synthesis

T Liang, C Luan, H Chen, M Xu - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene's practical applications require its reproducible production with controlled means.
In particular, graphene synthesis by chemical vapor deposition on metals has been shown …