• 文献标题:   Observing High-Pressure Chemistry in Graphene Bubbles
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIM CHYX, NESLADEK M, LOH KP
  • 作者关键词:   anvil cell, conformational change, diamond, graphene, high pressure
  • 出版物名称:   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIEINTERNATIONAL EDITION
  • ISSN:   1433-7851 EI 1521-3773
  • 通讯作者地址:   Natl Univ Singapore
  • 被引频次:   19
  • DOI:   10.1002/anie.201308682
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Using IR spectroscopy, high-pressure reactions of molecules were observed in liquids entrapped by graphene nanobubbles formed at the graphene-diamond interface. Nanobubbles formed on graphene as a result of thermally induced bonding of its edges with diamond are highly impermeable, thus providing a good sealing of solvents within. Owing to the optical transparency of graphene and diamond, high-pressure chemical reactions within the bubbles can be probed with vibrational spectroscopy. By monitoring the conformational changes of pressure-sensitive molecules, the pressure within the nanobubble can be calibrated as a function of temperature and it is about 1GPa at 600K. The polymerization of buckministerfullerene (C-60), which is symmetrically forbidden under ambient conditions, is observed to proceed in well-defined stages in the pressurized nanobubbles.