Sentences with phrase «graphene nucleating»

Researchers in the UK, the US and Germany have succeeded in obtaining videos of graphene nucleating and growing on polycrystalline metal surfaces using scanning electron microscopy.

The technique allowed the researchers to image graphene nucleating and growing on a polycrystalline platinum metal foil that was heated up to around 1000 °C with a laser while being exposed to a hydrocarbon gas (ethylene).