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Optical Characterization of Graphene and Its Derivatives: An Experimentalist’s Perspective

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Carbon-related Materials in Recognition of Nobel Lectures by Prof. Akira Suzuki in ICCE

Abstract

Carbon produces a wealth of different materials ranging from organic molecules to diamond crystals. One common challenge for the synthesis, application, and understanding of these materials is their characterization.

Graphene, a monoatomic layer of graphite, exemplifies the achievable diversity in properties of carbon materials and can serve as a model system for the analysis of complex molecules. Modifications, such as addition of heteroatoms, presence of edges, or interaction with adsorbates, significantly modify fundamental properties of graphene and allow inference to structure-property relations.

This contribution will demonstrate the ideal suitability of optical analysis techniques to provide complementary information on thus modified graphene. Even subtle changes in the mechanical, electronic, and chemical structure can be characterized by widely available and nondestructive optical spectroscopy methods.

We first provide an introduction of the available optical characterization techniques. Then, the ability of those techniques to elucidate changes of mechanical, electronic, and chemical properties of graphene will be described. To satisfy requirements from experimentalists, emphasis will be put on ease of access and quantitative relations.

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  1. Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, KISTEC, Ebina, Kanagawa, Japan

    Satoru Kaneko

  2. Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan

    Paolo Mele

  3. Sagamihara Surface Treatment Laboratory, Sagamihara, Japan

    Tamio Endo

  4. Advanced Coating Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Tetsuo Tsuchiya

  5. Department of Material Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

    Katsuhisa Tanaka

  6. Promotion Centre for Global Materials Research (PCGMR), Department of Material Science and Engineering National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Masahiro Yoshimura

  7. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    David Hui

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Nguyen, DT., Hsieh, YP., Hofmann, M. (2017). Optical Characterization of Graphene and Its Derivatives: An Experimentalist’s Perspective. In: Kaneko, S., et al. Carbon-related Materials in Recognition of Nobel Lectures by Prof. Akira Suzuki in ICCE. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61651-3_2

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