@article{db8be831f492496eb3edff409db76abc,
title = "An investigation of growth mechanism of coal derived graphene films",
abstract = "The growth mechanism of coal derived graphene films synthesized via chemical vapor deposition on copper substrates was investigated utilizing Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, selected area electron diffraction, optical microscopy, and gas chromatography. The synthesis of coal derived graphene films is a two-step process, wherein the copper in annealed followed by flash pyrolysis of coal under hydrogen environment. The growth mechanism involves a copper catalyzed reaction to produce a carbon film within the first few minutes of synthesis, followed by a hydrogen catalyzed graphitization of the underlying carbon film to form graphene domains which merge together to form graphene films.",
keywords = "Chemical vapor deposition, Coal to graphene, Graphene synthesis, Growth mechanism",
author = "Vijapur, {Santosh H.} and Dan Wang and Ingram, {David C.} and Botte, {Gerardine G.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to thank for the financial support from the Center for Electrochemical Engineering Research (CEER) at Ohio University, the Ohio Department of Development Office of Energy (Ohio Coal Demonstration and Pilot Program) Grant # OOE-CDO-D-13-23, the National Science Foundation through the Major Research Instrumentation Grant # CBET-1126350, and the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors would also like to thank Dr. KB Lee from The Sustainable Energy and Advanced Materials (SEAM) laboratory at Ohio University for allowing access to Gas Chromatography and his graduate students Ryan Tschannen, Aaron Gonzales, and Gregory Horne for their assistance. The authors also acknowledge Dr. Mark Singer from the Institute of Corrosion and Multiphase Technology (ICMT) at Ohio University for allowing access to the Infinite Focus Microscope. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Elsevier Ltd",
year = "2017",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.mtcomm.2017.04.003",
language = "English",
volume = "11",
pages = "147--155",
journal = "Materials Today Communications",
issn = "2352-4928",
}