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Graphene transfer methods: A review

Show Author's Information Sami Ullah1,  Xiaoqin Yang1,2,  Huy Q. Ta3,  Maria Hasan4,5,  Alicja Bachmatiuk1,3,5,  Klaudia Tokarska5,  Barbara Trzebicka5,  Lei Fu6,  Mark H. Rummeli1,3,5,7( )
College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationsKey Laboratory of Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies of Jiangsu ProvinceSoochow UniversitySuzhou215006China
School of Energy and Power EngineeringXi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'an710049China
Institute for Complex MaterialsIFW Dresden, 20 Helmholtz StrasseDresden01069Germany
NUTECH, School of Applied Sciences & Humanities and Computer Engineering DepartmentNational University of TechnologyIslamabad42000Pakistan
Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of SciencesM. Curie-Sklodowskiej 34, Zabrze41-819Poland
College of Chemistry and Molecular ScienceWuhan UniversityWuhan430072China
Institute of Environmental TechnologyVŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15Ostrava708 33Czech Republic
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Graphene is a material with unique properties that can be exploited in electronics, catalysis, energy, and bio-related fields. Although, for maximal utilization of this material, high-quality graphene is required at both the growth process and after transfer of the graphene film to the application-compatible substrate. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is an important method for growing high-quality graphene on non-technological substrates (as, metal substrates, e.g., copper foil). Thus, there are also considerable efforts toward the efficient and non-damaging transfer of quality of graphene on to technologically relevant materials and systems. In this review article, a range of graphene current transfer techniques are reviewed from the standpoint of their impact on contamination control and structural integrity preservation of the as-produced graphene. In addition, their scalability, cost- and time-effectiveness are discussed. We summarize with a perspective on the transfer challenges, alternative options and future developments toward graphene technology.


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Graphene transfer methods: A review

Show Author's information Sami Ullah1, Xiaoqin Yang1,2, Huy Q. Ta3, Maria Hasan4,5, Alicja Bachmatiuk1,3,5, Klaudia Tokarska5, Barbara Trzebicka5, Lei Fu6, Mark H. Rummeli1,3,5,7( )
College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationsKey Laboratory of Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies of Jiangsu ProvinceSoochow UniversitySuzhou215006China
School of Energy and Power EngineeringXi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'an710049China
Institute for Complex MaterialsIFW Dresden, 20 Helmholtz StrasseDresden01069Germany
NUTECH, School of Applied Sciences & Humanities and Computer Engineering DepartmentNational University of TechnologyIslamabad42000Pakistan
Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of SciencesM. Curie-Sklodowskiej 34, Zabrze41-819Poland
College of Chemistry and Molecular ScienceWuhan UniversityWuhan430072China
Institute of Environmental TechnologyVŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15Ostrava708 33Czech Republic

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Graphene is a material with unique properties that can be exploited in electronics, catalysis, energy, and bio-related fields. Although, for maximal utilization of this material, high-quality graphene is required at both the growth process and after transfer of the graphene film to the application-compatible substrate. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is an important method for growing high-quality graphene on non-technological substrates (as, metal substrates, e.g., copper foil). Thus, there are also considerable efforts toward the efficient and non-damaging transfer of quality of graphene on to technologically relevant materials and systems. In this review article, a range of graphene current transfer techniques are reviewed from the standpoint of their impact on contamination control and structural integrity preservation of the as-produced graphene. In addition, their scalability, cost- and time-effectiveness are discussed. We summarize with a perspective on the transfer challenges, alternative options and future developments toward graphene technology.

Keywords: high-quality transfer, application-compatible substrate, graphene technology

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Received: 25 October 2020
Revised: 01 January 2021
Accepted: 20 January 2021
Published: 05 February 2021
Issue date: November 2021

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52071225), the Czech Republic from ERDF "Institute of Environmental Technology – Excellent Research" (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000853). M. H. R. and L. F. thank the Sino-German Research Institute for support (project: GZ 1400). X. Q. Y. thanks Suzhou University. H. Q. T. thanks the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation for support through a fellowship.

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