• 文献标题:   Contact angle measurement of free-standing square-millimeter single-layer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PRYDATKO AV, BELYAEVA LA, JIANG L, LIMA LMC, SCHNEIDER GF
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
  • 通讯作者地址:   Leiden Univ
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41467-018-06608-0
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Square millimeters of free-standing graphene do not exist per se because of thermal fluctuations in two-dimensional crystals and their tendency to collapse during the detachment from the substrate. Here we form millimeter-scale freely suspended graphene by injecting an air bubble underneath a graphene monolayer floating at the water-air interface, which allowed us to measure the contact angle on fully free-standing non-contaminated graphene. A captive bubble measurement shows that free-standing clean graphene is hydrophilic with a contact angle of 42 degrees +/- 3 degrees. The proposed design provides a simple tool to probe and explore the wettability of two-dimensional materials in free-standing geometries and will expand our perception of two-dimensional materials technologies from microscopic to now millimeter scales.