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Madauß, Lukas; Pollmann, Erik; Foller, Tobias; Schumacher, Jens; Hagemann, Ulrich; Heckhoff, Tobias; Herder, Matthias; Skopinski, Lucia; Breuer, Lars; Hierzenberger, Anke; Wittmar, Alexandra; Lebius, Henning; Benyagoub, Abdenacer; Ulbricht, Mathias; Joshi, Rakesh; Schleberger, Marika

A swift technique to hydrophobize graphene and increase its mechanical stability and charge carrier density

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: A swift technique to hydrophobize graphene and increase its mechanical stability and charge carrier density
  • Contributor: Madauß, Lukas; Pollmann, Erik; Foller, Tobias; Schumacher, Jens; Hagemann, Ulrich; Heckhoff, Tobias; Herder, Matthias; Skopinski, Lucia; Breuer, Lars; Hierzenberger, Anke; Wittmar, Alexandra; Lebius, Henning; Benyagoub, Abdenacer; Ulbricht, Mathias; Joshi, Rakesh; Schleberger, Marika
  • imprint: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020
  • Published in: npj 2D Materials and Applications
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41699-020-0148-9
  • ISSN: 2397-7132
  • Keywords: Mechanical Engineering ; Mechanics of Materials ; Condensed Matter Physics ; General Materials Science ; General Chemistry
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Despite the improvement of the quality of CVD grown single-layer graphene on copper substrates, transferring the two-dimensional layer without introducing any unintentional defects still poses a challenge. While many approaches focus on optimizing the transfer itself or on necessary post-transfer cleaning steps, we have focused on developing a pre-treatment of the monolayer graphene on copper to improve the quality and reproducibility of the transfer process. By pressing an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer foil onto the monolayer graphene on copper using a commercially available vacuum bag sealer graphene is stabilized by the attachment of functional carbon groups. As a result, we are able to transfer graphene without the need of any supporting layer in an all-H<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>O wet-chemical transfer step. Despite the general belief that the crumbling of graphene without a support layer in a H<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>O environment is caused due to differences in surface energy, we will show that this assumption is false and that this behavior is caused rather by the polar interactions between graphene and water. Suppressing these interactions protects graphene from ripping and results in extremely clean, highly crystalline graphene with a coverage close to 100%.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access