Microwave plasma-induced growth of vertical graphene from fullerene soot. (February 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Zhipeng; Li, Yipei; Liu, Jian; Tian, Gui; Liu, Gang; Wang, Mingxi; Ogata, Hironori; Gong, Wei; Vipin, Adavan Kiliyankil; Hong Melvin, Gan Jet; Ortiz-Medina, Josue; Morimoto, Shingo; Hashimoto, Yoshio; Terrones, Mauricio; Endo, Morinobu
• Is Part Of: Carbon. Volume 172(2021)
• Page Start: 26
• Page End: 30
• Publication Date: 2021-02
• Subjects: Vertical graphene -- Fullerene soot -- Microwave plasma irradiation -- High purity; Carbon -- Periodicals; Carbone -- Périodiques; Koolstof; Toepassingen; Electronic journals; 546.681
• DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.09.086
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0008-6223

Abstract

Abstract: Vertical graphene (VG) films can be fabricated on the surface of nickel foil from fullerene soot (FS) under microwave plasma irradiation (MPI) in a mixture gas of H2 and Ar at 1200 W for 15 min. The resulting FS-derived VG films mostly consist of few-layer graphene sheets with large domain graphene sizes, high graphitization order, and high purity, as characterized by scanning and transmission electron microscopies, Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Combined the present and previous results, MPI technique is an effective and versatile approach to synthesize vertically oriented graphene sheets from any carbon-containing sources.