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Chemical Vapor Deposition-Graphene Growth
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Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is widely used in thin films fabrication on a heated substrate through chemical reactions. The deposition steps for CVD can be summarized into the following steps: Gas species transport to the su...
Is Graphene Hydrophilic or Hydrophobic?
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Graphene is a form of carbon that is made up of carbon atoms which form a single layer of aromatic rings (see Figure 1).[i] Other types of carbon include graphite, coal, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, and diamond. It has been...
2D Materials Can Now be Controlled with Redox Reactions
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Researchers at the Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) Department of Chemistry have discovered that redox reactions can be used to control the properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Redox reactions b...
5 Reasons Nanomaterials are the Future of Energy Storage
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An international conglomerate of scientists and researchers from Drexel, Stanford, Graphene Labs, the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (CFAED) and others have collaborated to develop a report that details how the future...
What Governs Crystal Growth? Scientists Have Revealed a Fundamental Phenomenon
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have used computer-based simulations to discover the general mechanism that governs crystal growth in materials – fluctuations in the solvent shield. The solvent shield is a...