MIT researchers have developed a new method for producing graphene in large quantities using a concentric tube (CT) reactor for roll-to-roll chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on flexible substrates. Graphene is a single atomic layer of graphite that has amazing properties such as high electrical conductivity, mechanical strength, and optical abilities. Previous methods for producing graphene included reduction of graphite oxide and sugar and furnace methods, but yielded low quantities. The new MIT method allows for continuous production of graphene on copper foil through a CVD process and has applications in optics, filtration, composites, photovoltaics and energy storage.
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1. NEW METHOD FOR
PRODUCTION OF
GRAPHENE IN LARGE
QUANTITY_ BY MIT
7740 RAVI BHIVRA
7741 ANIKET DEVDIGA
7742 STEVEN DSOUZA
7743 JOHNEY XAVIER
2. WHAT IS GRAPHENE ?
Graphene is, basically, a single atomic layer of graphite; an
abundant mineral which is an allotrope of carbon that is made up
of very tightly bonded carbon atoms organized into a hexagonal
lattice.
3. WHAT IS SO AMAZING ABOUT GRAPHENE ?
Fundamental properties :- 2d compound material having thermal stability.
Electronic properties :- zero-overlap semimetal with very high electrical
conductivity.
Mechanical strength :- graphene is the strongest material ever discovered,
with an ultimate tensile strength of 130,000,000,000 Pascals (or 130
gigapascals).
Optical properties :- Graphenes ability to absorb a rather large 2.3% of
white light
4. THE METHODS BEFORE FOR PRODUCTION
OF GRAPHENE
Reduction of graphite oxide.
Sugar method.
Hesjedal and colleagues used a modified tube furnace for R2R
production of multi-layer graphene.
Yamada and colleagues presented a custom microwave plasma CVD
system.
Kobayashi and colleagues produced high quality, predominantly
single-layer graphene on Cu foil.
In 2010, Bae et al.produced uniform graphene films on 30"
5. AND THE METHOD NOW
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
MIT , presents the design of a concentric tube (CT) reactor for
roll-to-roll chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on flexible
substrates, and its application to continuous production of
graphene on copper foil.