• 文献标题:   Drop-Casted Self-Assembling Graphene Oxide Membranes for Scanning Electron Microscopy on Wet and Dense Gaseous Samples
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KRUEGER M, BERG S, STONE D, STRELCOV E, DIKIN DA, KIM J, COTE LJ, HUANG JX, KOLMAKOV A
  • 作者关键词:   graphene oxide, in situ electron microscopy, selfassembled membrane, dropcasting
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   So Illinois Univ
  • 被引频次:   64
  • DOI:   10.1021/nn204287g
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Graphene oxide sheets dispersed in water and many other solvents can spontaneously assemble into a surface film covering an evaporating droplet due to their amphiphilicity. Thus, graphene oxide membranes with controllable thickness suspended over an orifice have been directly fabricated using a simple drop-cast approach. Mechanical properties and electron transparency tests of these membranes show their use as electron transparent, but molecularly Impenetrable, windows for environmental electron microscopy In liquids and dense gaseous media. The foreseeable, broader application of this drop-cast window methodology is the creation of access spots for electron probes to study isolated microsamples in their natural, undisrupted state within the interior of prefabricated devices (such as microfluidic chips or sealed containers of biological, chemically reactive, toxic, or forensic materials).