Towards super-clean graphene

Lin, Li; Zhang, Jincan; Su, Hai‐Sheng; Li, Jiayu; Sun, Luzhao; Wang, Zihao; Xu, Fan; Liu, Chang; Lopatin, Sergei; Zhu, Yihan; Jia, Kaicheng; Chen, Shulin; Rui, Dingran; Sun, Jingyu; Xue, Ruiwen; Gao, Peng; Kang, Ning; Han, Yu; Xu, Haitao; Cao, Yang; Novoselov, Kostya S.; Tian, Zhong‐Qun; Ren, Bin; Peng, Hailin; Liu, Zhongfan

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09565-4

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“…[14][15][16] Nevertheless, it is still difficult to grow uniform and ultraclean TMDCs over large areas. [17,18] To tackle these issues, we may learn the lesson from graphene growth. [19][20][21] In typical graphene growth by CVD, the carbon source is dissolved in the bulk or subsurface of catalytic substrates like nickel or copper, followed by precipitation at the substrate surface to grow uniform graphene over large areas.…”

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Dissolution-precipitation growth of uniform and clean two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Cai

Lai

Zhao

et al. 2020

National Science Review

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Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted much interest and shown promise in many applications. However, it is challenging to obtain uniform TMDCs with clean surfaces, because of the difficulties in controlling the way the reactants are supplied to the reaction in the current chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth process. Here, we report a new growth approach called “dissolution-precipitation” (DP) growth, where the metal sources are sealed inside glass substrates to control their feeding to the reaction. Noteworthy, the diffusion of metal source inside glass to its surface provides a uniform metal source on the glass surface, and restricts the TMDC growth to only a surface reaction while eliminates unwanted gas-phase reaction. This feature gives rise to highly-uniform monolayer TMDCs with a clean surface on centimeter-scale substrates. The DP growth works well for a large variety of TMDCs and their alloys, providing a solid foundation for the controlled growth of clean TMDCs by the fine control of the metal source.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Dissolution-precipitation growth of uniform and clean two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Cai

Lai

Zhao

et al. 2020

National Science Review

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“…The thickness of the Mo2C hexagonal domains increased with growth time, giving heights of approximately 40, 140 and 190 nm for growth times 20, 60 and 90 min, respectively (Figure 31) [49]. Lin et al addressed the issue of the contamination on graphene's surface after the CVD process and demonstrated a design of Cu substrate architecture that leads to super-clean graphene film [203]. They have used a designed substrate that consists of Cu foil and Cu foam which showed remarkable results as demonstrated by AFM topographic images (Figure 32).…”

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Chemical Vapour Deposition of Graphene—Synthesis, Characterisation, and Applications: A Review

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Graphene as the 2D material with extraordinary properties has attracted the interest of research communities to master the synthesis of this remarkable material at a large scale without sacrificing the quality. Although Top-Down and Bottom-Up approaches produce graphene of different quality, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) stands as the most promising technique. This review details the leading CVD methods for graphene growth, including hot-wall, cold-wall and plasma-enhanced CVD. The role of process conditions and growth substrates on the nucleation and growth of graphene film are thoroughly discussed. The essential characterisation techniques in the study of CVD-grown graphene are reported, highlighting the characteristics of a sample which can be extracted from those techniques. This review also offers a brief overview of the applications to which CVD-grown graphene is well-suited, drawing particular attention to its potential in the sectors of energy and electronic devices.

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“…Chen et al [ 11d ] used chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to grow a 3D interconnected high‐quality graphene network on a nickel foam template (Figure 3f,g). This strategy was extended to different templates like copper foam [ 40 ] and a SiO 2 aerogel [ 41 ] to obtain different 2D material‐based monoliths, including graphene and h ‐BN.…”

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Recent Progress in 3D Printing of 2D Material‐Based Macrostructures

Yang

Zhou

Yang

et al. 2020

Adv Materials Technologies

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2D materials have a range of unique properties and are promising building blocks for the fabrication of macroscopic materials for many applications ranging from flexible electronics to energy storage devices. The development of effective methods to fabricate 2D material‐based macroscopic materials with designed structures is the key to enabling high performance. Lately, 3D printing has emerged as a new technique to assemble such materials. Compared to conventional fabrication methods, 3D printing techniques have a high degree of customization of the structure with a broad range of domain sizes from nanometers to centimeters, and thereby give the resulting products additional structure‐related functionalities. Recent advances in the fabrication of 2D material‐based macrostructures using 3D printing techniques and their uses in different fields are reviewed. Challenges and opportunities for the future development of the topic are also discussed.

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Towards super-clean graphene

Cited by 173 publications

References 41 publications

Dissolution-precipitation growth of uniform and clean two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Dissolution-precipitation growth of uniform and clean two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Chemical Vapour Deposition of Graphene—Synthesis, Characterisation, and Applications: A Review

Recent Progress in 3D Printing of 2D Material‐Based Macrostructures

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