However, they only had tiny
graphene flakes with diameters in the microns available to them, so that edge effects predominated.
Not exact matches
The initial
graphene - making methods worked similarly to pencil writing: researchers would abrade some graphite and then search the debris
with a microscope for suitable samples or separate individual
flakes with sticky tape.
Using metal ions
with three or more positive charges, researchers in Tian's laboratory bonded
graphene - oxide
flakes into a transparent membrane.
Physicist Philip Kim of Columbia University began trying to
flake off
graphene layers in 2002 by dragging a tiny graphite rod
with an atomic force microscope, which is like an exquisitely sensitive phonograph needle.
An electron microscope image shows
flake - like nanoplatelets made of
graphene quantum dots drawn from coal and
graphene oxide sheets, modified
with boron and nitrogen.
One other fact to note, Canada's resources include graphite mines
with «premium»
flakes for producing
graphene.