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Graphene closer to fruition

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Cracks and defects induced during the transfer of large-area graphene on insulating substrates impair its excellent electronic properties. A defect-free transfer can now be obtained thanks to capillary bridges that anchor the graphene film to the substrate while the underlying growth layer is etched away.

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Figure 1: Schematic of face-to-face transfer of graphene following plasma treatment.

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  1. Jaime A. Torres and Richard B. Kaner are in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA,

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Torres, J., Kaner, R. Graphene closer to fruition. Nature Mater 13, 328–329 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3925

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