Frictional behavior of atomically thin sheets: Hexagonal-shaped graphene islands grown on copper by chemical vapor deposition

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 5010-5021

  Egberts, Philip ^a,c   Han, Gang Hee ^b,d   Liu, Xin Z ^a   Johnson, A T Charlie ^b   Carpick, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

atomic force microscope (AFM); chemical vapor deposition (CVD); copper; graphene; nanotribology

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COPPER; FRICTION; HYSTERESIS; NANOTRIBOLOGY; TRIBOLOGY; VAPORS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITED; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); EXFOLIATED GRAPHENE; FRICTION FORCE MICROSCOPY; FRICTION PROPERTIES; FRICTIONAL BEHAVIOR; POLYCRYSTALLINE COPPER; SINGLE ASPERITY FRICTION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84901663264     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501085g     Document Type: Article

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