• 文献标题:   Imaging the reactivity and width of graphene's boundary region
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ALSALEM HS, ALGOUL ST, FERRARI AGM, BROWNSON DAC, VELARDE L, KOEHLER SPK
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  • 出版物名称:   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   1359-7345 EI 1364-548X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Manchester Metropolitan Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1039/d0cc02675a
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

The reactivity of graphene at its boundary region has been imaged using non-linear spectroscopy to address the controversy whether the terraces of graphene or its edges are more reactive. Graphene was functionalised with phenyl groups, and we subsequently scanned our vibrational sum-frequency generation setup from the functionalised graphene terraces across the edges. A greater phenyl signal is clearly observed at the edges, showing evidence of increased reactivity in the boundary region. We estimate an upper limit of 1 mm for the width of the CVD graphene boundary region.