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In Situ Room Temperature Electron-Beam Driven Graphene Growth from Hydrocarbon Contamination in a Transmission Electron Microscope

The excitement of graphene (as well as 2D materials in general) has generated numerous procedures for the fabrication of graphene. Here we present a mini-review on a rather less known, but attractive, in situ means to fabricate graphene inside a transmission electron microscope (TEM). This is achiev...

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Autores principales: Rummeli, Mark H, Pan, Yumo, Zhao, Liang, Gao, Jing, Ta, Huy Q, Martinez, Ignacio G., Mendes, Rafael G., Gemming, Thomas, Fu, Lei, Bachmatiuk, Alicja, Liu, Zhongfan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29861457
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11060896
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author Rummeli, Mark H
Pan, Yumo
Zhao, Liang
Gao, Jing
Ta, Huy Q
Martinez, Ignacio G.
Mendes, Rafael G.
Gemming, Thomas
Fu, Lei
Bachmatiuk, Alicja
Liu, Zhongfan
author_facet Rummeli, Mark H
Pan, Yumo
Zhao, Liang
Gao, Jing
Ta, Huy Q
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Mendes, Rafael G.
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description The excitement of graphene (as well as 2D materials in general) has generated numerous procedures for the fabrication of graphene. Here we present a mini-review on a rather less known, but attractive, in situ means to fabricate graphene inside a transmission electron microscope (TEM). This is achieved in a conventional TEM (viz. no sophisticated specimen holders or microscopes are required) and takes advantage of inherent hydrocarbon contamination as a carbon source. Both catalyst free and single atom catalyst approaches are reviewed. An advantage of this technique is that not only can the growth process be imaged in situ, but this can also be achieved with atomic resolution. Moreover, in the future, one can anticipate such approaches enabling the growth of nano-materials with atomic precision.
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spelling pubmed-60249262018-07-09 In Situ Room Temperature Electron-Beam Driven Graphene Growth from Hydrocarbon Contamination in a Transmission Electron Microscope Rummeli, Mark H Pan, Yumo Zhao, Liang Gao, Jing Ta, Huy Q Martinez, Ignacio G. Mendes, Rafael G. Gemming, Thomas Fu, Lei Bachmatiuk, Alicja Liu, Zhongfan Materials (Basel) Review The excitement of graphene (as well as 2D materials in general) has generated numerous procedures for the fabrication of graphene. Here we present a mini-review on a rather less known, but attractive, in situ means to fabricate graphene inside a transmission electron microscope (TEM). This is achieved in a conventional TEM (viz. no sophisticated specimen holders or microscopes are required) and takes advantage of inherent hydrocarbon contamination as a carbon source. Both catalyst free and single atom catalyst approaches are reviewed. An advantage of this technique is that not only can the growth process be imaged in situ, but this can also be achieved with atomic resolution. Moreover, in the future, one can anticipate such approaches enabling the growth of nano-materials with atomic precision. MDPI 2018-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6024926/ /pubmed/29861457 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11060896 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Review
Rummeli, Mark H
Pan, Yumo
Zhao, Liang
Gao, Jing
Ta, Huy Q
Martinez, Ignacio G.
Mendes, Rafael G.
Gemming, Thomas
Fu, Lei
Bachmatiuk, Alicja
Liu, Zhongfan
In Situ Room Temperature Electron-Beam Driven Graphene Growth from Hydrocarbon Contamination in a Transmission Electron Microscope
title In Situ Room Temperature Electron-Beam Driven Graphene Growth from Hydrocarbon Contamination in a Transmission Electron Microscope
title_full In Situ Room Temperature Electron-Beam Driven Graphene Growth from Hydrocarbon Contamination in a Transmission Electron Microscope
title_fullStr In Situ Room Temperature Electron-Beam Driven Graphene Growth from Hydrocarbon Contamination in a Transmission Electron Microscope
title_full_unstemmed In Situ Room Temperature Electron-Beam Driven Graphene Growth from Hydrocarbon Contamination in a Transmission Electron Microscope
title_short In Situ Room Temperature Electron-Beam Driven Graphene Growth from Hydrocarbon Contamination in a Transmission Electron Microscope
title_sort in situ room temperature electron-beam driven graphene growth from hydrocarbon contamination in a transmission electron microscope
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29861457
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11060896
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