Graphene Growth: Mechanisms of Graphene Growth on Metal Surfaces: Theoretical Perspectives (Small 11/2014)

Large-scale synthesis is very critical to promote research and applications of graphene. High quality samples can now be grown on various metal surfaces. In additional to experimental efforts to understand the underlying growth mechanisms, more and more atomic details about graphene growth are being revealed by multiscale theoretical/computational studies, which are expected to eventually make rational design of growth protocol possible. A Review of these developements is provided by Z. Li, J. Yang, and co-workers on page 2136.