A roadmap to high quality chemically prepared graphene

Régis y N Gengler (1) , Konstantinos Spyrou (1) , Petra Rudolf (1)

1 Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials

Graphene was discovered half a decade ago and proved the existence of a two-dimensional system which becomes stable as a result of 3D corrugation. It appeared very quickly that this exceptional material had truly outstanding electronic, mechanical, thermal and optical properties. Consequently a broad range of application appeared, as the graphene science speedily moved forward. Since then, a lot of effort has been devoted not only to the study of graphene but also to its fabrication. Here we review the chemical approaches to graphene production, their advantages as well as their downsides. Our aim is to draw a roadmap of today's most reliable path to high quality graphene via chemical preparation.

Mots clés: exfoliated graphene; KEYWORDS: graphene; graphene oxide; reduced graphene oxide; functionalized graphene; exfoliated graphene.

Régis y N Gengler, Konstantinos Spyrou, Petra Rudolf. A roadmap to high quality chemically prepared graphene. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2010, 43 (37), pp.374015. ⟨10.1088/0022-3727/43/37/374015⟩. ⟨hal-00569706⟩