Direct Chemical Vapor Deposition-Derived Graphene Glasses Targeting Wide Ranged Applications

Abstract

Direct growth of graphene on traditional glasses is of great importance for various daily life applications. We report herein the catalyst-free atmospheric-pressure chemical vapor deposition approach to directly synthesizing large-area, uniform graphene films on solid glasses. The optical transparency and sheet resistance of such kinds of graphene glasses can be readily adjusted together with the experimentally tunable layer thickness of graphene. More significantly, these graphene glasses find a broad range of real applications by enabling the low-cost construction of heating devices, transparent electrodes, photocatalytic plates, and smart windows. With a practical scalability, the present work will stimulate various applications of transparent, electrically and thermally conductive graphene glasses in real-life scenarios.

Structure of graphene and its disorders: a review

“…1000 °C), exhibited a high-transparency, and showed great potential as heating, defrosting and antifogging devices [22]. The batch production of large-area, uniform graphene films on solid glass was realized by a catalyst-free atmospheric-pressure CVD approach [23]. Such graphene coated glass held good promise for thermochromic windows that benefit from the light interference effect of the changing layer thickness [24].…”

Graphene as a functional layer for semiconducting carbon nanotube transistor sensors

“…On the other hand, graphene, an atom-thick and impermeable two-dimensional nanosheet [18–20], possesses large specific surface area (theoretically, ~2630 m 2 /g) [21] that can be readily functionalized [12,22], rendering it as promising materials for highly-selective chemical sorbents [23], superior surface modifiers [24] and ultra-thin anti-corrosion coatings [25]. Moreover, because of its strong π-π interaction toward other graphitic nanomaterials resulting from the similar sp 2 -carbon conjugated structures, graphene has been incorporated in building novel hybrid multidimensional carbon-based nanomaterials that combine respective advantages from different components [26], such as rebar graphene, which utilizes the carbon nanotube networks to reinforce the mechanical strength of graphene for transparent and conductive thin films [27], and graphene-CNT carpets that exhibit superior conductivity and ultra-large specific surface area for high-performance supercapacitors [28].…”

Large-Scale Synthesis and Systematic Photoluminescence Properties of Monolayer MoS2 on Fused Silica

“…19 Fused silica, as one of the most ordinary transparent insulating materials, has found plenty of applications in daily life. [28][29][30] Developing facile ways to directly grow uniform, large-area and high-quality monolayer MoS 2 on fused silica has significance in both basic research and low-cost device application.…”