Graphene Illustration (IMAGE)

Rice University

Graphene Illustration

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Rice University researchers have come up with a set of calculations to predict how graphene grows in the process known as chemical vapor deposition. The graph set against an illustration of graphene growing on a nickel catalyst shows the initial energy barrier a carbon atom must overcome to join the bloom; subsequent atoms face an ever-smaller energy barrier until the process begins again for the next line.

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Vasilii Artyukhov/Rice University

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