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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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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 Martinez, Ignacio G. Mendes, Rafael G. Gemming, Thomas Fu, Lei Bachmatiuk, Alicja Liu, Zhongfan |
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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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