journal article·2017-07

Clean Transfer of Large Graphene Single Crystals for High‐Intactness Suspended Membranes and Liquid Cells

Jincan Zhang, Li Lin, Luzhao Sun, Yucheng Huang, Ai Leen Koh, Wenhui Dang, Jianbo Yin, Mingzhan Wang, Congwei Tan, Tianran Li, Zhenjun Tan, Zhongfan Liu, Hailin Peng

Advanced Materials· Volume 29· Issue 26
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Abstract

The atomically thin 2D nature of suspended graphene membranes holds promising in numerous technological applications. In particular, the outstanding transparency to electron beam endows graphene membranes great potential as a candidate for specimen support of transmission electron microscopy (TEM). However, major hurdles remain to be addressed to acquire an ultraclean, high‐intactness, and defect‐free suspended graphene membrane. Here, a polymer‐free clean transfer of sub‐centimeter‐sized graphene single crystals onto TEM grids to fabricate large‐area and high‐quality suspended graphene membranes has been achieved. Through the control of interfacial force during the transfer, the intactness of large‐area graphene membranes can be as high as 95%, prominently larger than reported values in previous works. Graphene liquid cells are readily prepared by π–π stacking two clean single‐crystal graphene TEM grids, in which atomic‐scale resolution imaging and temporal evolution of colloid Au nanoparticles are recorded. This facile and scalable production of clean and high‐quality suspended graphene membrane is promising toward their wide applications for electron and optical microscopy.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Graphene research and applications · Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications · Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies

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Affiliations

Center for Nanochemistry Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Beijing 100871 P. R. China

Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies Peking University Beijing 100871 China

Stanford Nano Shared Facilities Stanford University Stanford CA 94305 USA

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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