Evaluation of polyvinyl chloride adhesion to 2D crystal flakes
Source abstract
Abstract
Abstract We investigated the adhesion of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) to 2D crystal flakes on SiO2/Si substrates. Although the anchoring effect cannot be used to explain adhesion to atomically flat surfaces, PVC is sufficiently strongly adhesive to 2D crystal flake surfaces to allow pickup from SiO2/Si substrates via surface contact alone. Results of the pickup test, whether pickup is possible or impossible, were plotted on a map of contact surface area ratio vs. contact edge length ratio, which allowed us to identify the conditions under which flakes can be picked up using PVC and to discuss the adhesion strengths of the surface and edge. This study provides a method for the evaluation of adhesion forces between polymers and 2D flakes and demonstrates that PVC is a useful polymer for deterministic transfer and versatile manipulation of 2D flakes.
Source: crossref · Quality: baseline
Research context
OpenAlex topics: Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials · Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions · Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
SciVX discovery tags are terminology-based. OpenAlex topics are source-provided classifications.
References (24)
Show source-provided references
1. Geim, A. K. & Grigorieva, I. V. Van der Waals heterostructures. Nature 499, 419–425 (2013).10.1038/nature12385 ↗
2. Onodera, M., Masubuchi, S., Moriya, R. & Machida, T. Assembly of van der Waals heterostructures: exfoliation, searching, and stacking of 2D materials. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 59, 010101 (2020).10.7567/1347-4065/ab5ee0 ↗
3. Dean, C. R. et al. Boron nitride substrates for high-quality graphene electronics. Nat. Nanotechnol. 5, 722–726 (2010).10.1038/nnano.2010.172 ↗
4. Wang, L. et al. One-dimensional electrical contact to a two-dimensional material. Science 342, 614–617 (2013).10.1126/science.1244358 ↗
5. Huang, Z. et al. Versatile construction of van der Waals heterostructures using a dual-function polymeric film. Nat. Commun. 11, 1–10 (2020).10.1038/s41467-019-13993-7 ↗
6. Kinoshita, K. et al. Dry release transfer of graphene and few-layer h-BN by utilizing thermoplasticity of polypropylene carbonate. npj 2D Mater. Appl. 3, 22 (2019).10.1038/s41699-019-0104-8 ↗
7. Onodera, M. et al. Electrical control of cyclotron resonance in dual-gated trilayer graphene. Nano Lett. 19, 8097–8102 (2019).10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03280 ↗
8. Castellanos-Gomez, A. et al. Deterministic transfer of two-dimensional materials by all-dry viscoelastic stamping. 2D Mater. 1, 011002 (2014).10.1088/2053-1583/1/1/011002 ↗
9. Ma, X. et al. Capillary-force-assisted clean-stamp transfer of two-dimensional materials. Nano Lett. 17, 6961–6967 (2017).10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03449 ↗
10. Uwanno, T., Hattori, Y., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K. & Nagashio, K. Fully dry PMMA transfer of graphene on h-BN using a heating/cooling system. 2D Mater. 2, 041002 (2015).10.1088/2053-1583/2/4/041002 ↗
11. Purdie, D. G. et al. Cleaning interfaces in layered materials heterostructures. Nat. Commun. 9, 5387 (2018).10.1038/s41467-018-07558-3 ↗
12. Masubuchi, S. et al. Autonomous robotic searching and assembly of two-dimensional crystals to build van der Waals superlattices. Nat. Commun. 9, 1413 (2018).10.1038/s41467-018-03723-w ↗
13. Cao, Y. et al. Movable-type transfer and stacking of van der Waals heterostructures for spintronics. IEEE Access 8, 70488–70495 (2020).10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2984942 ↗
14. Shivayogimath, A. et al. Do-it-yourself transfer of large-area graphene using an office laminator and water. Chem. Mater. 31, 2328–2336 (2019).10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b04196 ↗
15. Rebollo, I. G., Rodrigues-Machado, F. C., Wright, W., Melin, G. J. & Champagne, A. R. Thin-suspended 2D materials: facile, versatile, and deterministic transfer assembly. 2D Mater. 8, 035028 (2021).10.1088/2053-1583/abf98c ↗
16. Son, S. et al. Strongly adhesive dry transfer technique for van der Waals heterostructure. 2D Mater. 7, 041005 (2020).10.1088/2053-1583/abad0b ↗
17. Leong, W. S. et al. Paraffin-enabled graphene transfer. Nat. Commun. 10, 867 (2019).10.1038/s41467-019-08813-x ↗
18. Qian, Y. et al. Universal 2D material film transfer using a novel low molecular weight polyvinyl acetate. Appl. Surf. Sci. 534, 147650 (2020).10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147650 ↗
19. Haley, K. L. et al. Heated assembly and transfer of van der Waals heterostructures with common nail polish. Nanomanufacturing 1, 49–56 (2021).10.3390/nanomanufacturing1010005 ↗
20. Wakafuji, Y. et al. 3D manipulation of 2D materials using microdome polymer. Nano Lett. 20, 2486–2492 (2020).10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05228 ↗
21. Taniguchi, T. & Watanabe, K. Synthesis of high-purity boron nitride single crystals under high pressure by using Ba–BN solvent. J. Cryst. Growth 303, 525–529 (2007).10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2006.12.061 ↗
22. Tiwari, A. et al. The effect of surface roughness and viscoelasticity on rubber adhesion. Soft Matter 13, 3602–3621 (2017).10.1039/C7SM00177K ↗
23. Myshkin, N. & Kovalev, A. Adhesion and surface forces in polymer tribology—A review. Friction 6, 143–155 (2018).10.1007/s40544-018-0203-0 ↗
24. Maboudian, R. & Howe, R. T. Critical review: adhesion in surface micromechanical structures. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 15, 1 (1998).10.1116/1.589247 ↗