SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW TEMPERATURE GROWTH OF PRISTINE, DOPED AND NANOPOROUS GRAPHENE FILMS

摘要

Novel synthetic methods to produce layers or films and flakes of pristine graphene, heteroatom-doped graphene, nanoporous graphene or heteroatom-doped nanoporous graphene using specially designed molecular precursors at temperatures as low as 160 C using a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system. The methods enable the realization of graphene-based electronics and technologies due to the low-temperature synthesis, large-area coverage, and scalability of the CVD method by taking advantage of the precursors tendency to polymerize and fuse once on the catalytic metal substrates.