Growth mechanism and controlled synthesis of AB-stacked bilayer graphene on Cu-Ni alloy foils

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 7731-7738

  Wu, Yaping ^a,b   Chou, Harry ^a   Ji, Hengxing ^a   Wu, Qingzhi ^a   Chen, Shanshan ^a   Jiang, Wei ^b   Hao, Yufeng ^a   Kang, Junyong ^b   Ren, Yujie ^a   Piner, Richard D ^a   Ruoff, Rodney S ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AB stacked bilayer graphene; carbon isotopes; Cu Ni alloy; growth mechanism; Raman; TEM; TOF SIMS

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; CARBON ISOTOPES; CU-NI ALLOYS; GROWTH MECHANISMS; RAMAN; TOF SIMS;

COOLING; ISOTOPES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

COPPER; COPPER NICKEL ALLOY; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; NICKEL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COPPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NICKEL; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84866661741     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301689m     Document Type: Article

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