In-situ graphene formation in a sandwich of nanoporous synthetic clay mineral

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In this experiment, we aim to study formation of sandwich of heteroatom doped graphene inside the confined space of layered silicate. In our previous experiments, we grew heterostructure of alternating layers of graphene and clay, now we aim to optimize preparation of sandwich structure of graphene and clay. We use synthetic fluorohectorite clay, which are 1 nm thin negatively charged sheets kept together by interlayer cation, and we exchange them by precursor carbon molecules –dyes. We demonstrated that we can synthetize graphene in clay interlayer using different dyes, such as safranine, cyan violet etc. at very low temperatures (600-750 •C) compared to standard process used in industry (3000 •C). New sandwich heterostructure – 2 layers of clay with heteroatom doped graphene in the interlayer is promising candidate not just for fabrication of doped graphene itself, but also electronic applications. We plan to optimize synthesis and annealing protocols in proposed experiment.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-2097008474
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/2097008474
Provenance
Creator Jon Otto FOSSUM; Vadim DIADKIN ORCID logo; Barbara PACAKOVA; Bruno TELLI CECCATO ORCID logo; Namrah AZMI
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2028
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields