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6-inch uniform vertically-oriented graphene on soda-lime glass for photothermal applications

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Vertically-oriented graphene (VG) has many advantages over flat lying graphene, including a large surface area, exposed sharp edges, and non-stacking three-dimensional geometry. Recently, VG nanosheets assembled on specific substrates have been used for applications in supersensitive gas sensors and high-performance energy storage devices. However, to realize these intriguing applications, the direct growth of high-quality VG on a functional substrate is highly desired. Herein, we report the direct synthesis of VG nanosheets on traditional soda-lime glass due to its low-cost, good transparency, and compatibility with many applications encountered in daily life. This synthesis was achieved by a direct-current plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (dc-PECVD) route at 580 °C, which is right below the softening point of the glass, and featured a scale-up size ∼6 inches. Particularly, the fabricated VG nanosheets/glass hybrid materials at a transmittance range of 97%–34% exhibited excellent solarthermal performances, reflected by a 70%–130% increase in the surface temperature under simulated sunlight irradiation. We believe that this graphene glass hybrid material has great potential for use in future transparent “green-warmth” construction materials.

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFA0200103), the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (No. Z161100002116020), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2013CB932603), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51432002, 51290272 and 51472008), the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Planning Project (No. Z151100003315013), and the Certificate of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant (No. 2016M590010).

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  1. Center for Nanochemistry (CNC), Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Haina Ci, Huaying Ren, Yue Qi, Xudong Chen, Zhaolong Chen, Jincan Zhang, Yanfeng Zhang & Zhongfan Liu

  2. Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Haina Ci, Huaying Ren, Yue Qi & Jincan Zhang

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yanfeng Zhang

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Ci, H., Ren, H., Qi, Y. et al. 6-inch uniform vertically-oriented graphene on soda-lime glass for photothermal applications. Nano Res. 11, 3106–3115 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1839-1

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