Versatile Polymer-Free Graphene Transfer Method and Applications

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 8008-8016

  Zhang, Guohui ^a   Güell, Aleix G ^a,b   Kirkman, Paul M ^a   Lazenby, Robert A ^a   Miller, Thomas S ^a   Unwin, Patrick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

conductive AFM; electrochemistry; freestanding graphene; graphene TEM grids; graphene transfer

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM PERSULFATE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COPPER; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETCHING; HEXANE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POLYMERS; SUBSTRATES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WETTING;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); CONDUCTIVE AFM; CONTAMINATION PROBLEM; ELECTRON-TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE; HEXANE/WATER INTERFACE; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL MICROSCOPIES; TEM GRIDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARCHITECTURE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84963622490     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b00681     Document Type: Article

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