• 文献标题:   Exploring 1-butanol as a potential liquid precursor for graphene synthesis via chemical vapour deposition and enhanced catalyzed growth methodology
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ABDALRHEEM R, YAM FK, IBRAHIM AR, LIM HS, BEH KP, FARHAT OF, OGLAT AA, ABUELSAMEN AA, JAFRI MZM
  • 作者关键词:   apcvd grown graphene, 1butanol, copper substrate, precursors flow rate, enhanced catalytic growth, nanostructured catalyst
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
  • ISSN:   1388-0764 EI 1572-896X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Sains Malaysia
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1007/s11051-019-4650-y
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

In this study, 1-butanol (C4H9OH) was used as a potential precursor for atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition grown graphene. While graphene were obtainable at moderate to high precursor flow rate, they were of double to multilayer as evident from Raman and ultra-violet visible spectroscopy. Here, a simple yet novel growth procedure was implemented to obtain monolayer graphene at much lower precursor flow rate. The procedure utilized additional copper which enable a richer flux of carbonaceous radicals to be produced through catalytic decomposition, leading to high-quality monolayer graphene to be grown on copper substrate. This type of graphene was characterized with Raman of two excitation sources, and the results were consistent with each other. It was found that it exhibited highest I-2D/I-G intensity ratio (similar to 4.85), largest average crystallite size (L-a, similar to 188 nm), and smallest defect level among other samples. Due to the latter, it possessed lowest sheet resistance compared with other samples (similar to 7.75 k omega/sq). Lastly, the graphene samples were characterized using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, where the deconvoluted spectra reveal sub-components of sp(2) and sp(3) states of carbon, which could provide insights on the reaction mechanics about the transformation of butanol to graphene.