• 文献标题:   Effect of Reaction Kinetics on Graphene-Edge Morphology and Composition
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WHITESIDES R, FRENKLACH M
  • 作者关键词:   grapheneedge growth, soot, chemical kinetic, sensitivity analysi
  • 出版物名称:   ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PHYSIKALISCHE CHEMIEINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0942-9352
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Calif Berkeley
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1515/zpch-2014-0633
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

New simulations of graphene growth in flame environments are presented. The simulations employed a kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithm coupled to molecular mechanics (MM) geometry optimization to track individual graphenic species as they evolve. Focus was given to incorporation of five-member rings and resulting curvature and edge defects. The model code was re-written to be more computationally efficient enabling a larger set of simulations to be run, decreasing stochastic fluctuations in the averaged results. The model also included updated rate coefficients for graphene edge reactions recently published in the literature. Sensitivity analysis, enabled by the more efficient coding, confirmed the importance of the updated rates as well as providing further insight on key reactions controlling layer growth and morphology. The new KMC code was applied to simulate graphene-layer growth in the environments of laminar premixed flames. In these flame simulations, C-H ratios of evolving structures were computed and compared to those from experiment and from an alternate model.