Graphene has excellent mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. Recently, graphene-metal composites have been proposed as a means to combine the properties of metals with those of graphene, leading to mechanically, electrically and thermally functional materials. The understanding of metal-graphene nanocomposites is of critical importance in developing next-generation electrical, thermal ...

An individual suspended graphene sheet was connected to a scanning tunneling microscopy probe inside a transmission electron microscope, and Joule heated to high temperatures. At high temperatures and under electron beam irradiation, the few-layer graphene sheets were removed layer-by-layer in the viewing area until a monolayer graphene was formed. The layer-by-layer peeling was initiated at va...

Properties of phonons-quanta of the crystal lattice vibrations-in graphene have recently attracted significant attention from the physics and engineering communities. Acoustic phonons are the main heat carriers in graphene near room temperature, while optical phonons are used for counting the number of atomic planes in Raman experiments with few-layer graphene. It was shown both theoretically a...

This paper discusses the use of Box Behnken design (BBD) approach to plan the experiments for turning the yield of CVD, thickness and layer number of graphene sheets with an overall objective of optimizing the process to provide higher graphene production volume, fewer layers and thinness structure of graphene. BBD is having the maximum efficiency for an experiment involving four factors such a...

Few-layer graphene has attracted tremendous attention owing to its exceptional electronic properties inherited from single-layer graphene and new features led by introducing extra freedoms such as interlayer stacking sequences or rotations. Effectively probing interlayer shear modes are critical for unravelling mechanical and electrical properties of few-layer graphene and further developing it...

A novel printed graphene electrode modified with electrochemically reduced graphene oxide was developed for the detection of a specific oligonucleotide sequence. The graphene oxide was immobilized onto the surface of a graphene electrode via π-π bonds and electrochemical reduction of graphene oxide was achieved by cyclic voltammetry. A much higher redox current was observed from the reduced gra...

Solution-processable thin layer graphene is an intriguing nanomaterial with tremendous potential for electronic applications. In this work, we demonstrate that electrochemical exfoliation of graphite furnishes graphene sheets of high quality. The electrochemically exfoliated graphene (EG) contains a high yield (>80%) of one- to three-layer graphene flakes with high C/O ratio of 12.3 and low she...

This paper discusses the use of Box Behnken design (BBD) approach to plan the experiments for turning the yield of CVD, thickness and layer number of graphene sheets with an overall objective of optimizing the process to provide higher graphene production volume, fewer layers and thinness structure of graphene. BBD is having the maximum efficiency for an experiment involving four factors such a...

Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms densely packed in a honeycomb lattice with each carbon atom accommodating four valence electrons: one π electron and three σ electrons [1]. The lone unpaired π electron in the half-filled pz orbital would form a π bond with the neighboring carbon atoms leading to delocalized π bands. Three σ electrons, sp 2 -hybridized with neighboring three carbon ato...

Strong Raman scattering is observed from iodine anions adsorbed at ca. 3% coverage on single layer graphene. In addition, the Raman signal from just one bromine intercalation layer inside three and four layer thick graphenes is observed. We analyze and model the intramolecular electronic, charge-transfer, and multiple reflection electromagnetic mechanisms responsible for this unusual sensitivit...