Growth kinetics of white graphene (h-BN) on a planarised Ni foil surface
- Authors
- Cho, Hyunjin; Park, Sungchan; Won, Dong-Il; Kang, Sang Ook; Pyo, Seong-Soo; Kim, Dong-Ik; Kim, Soo Min; Kim, Hwan Chul; Kim, Myung Jong
- Issue Date
- 9-7월-2015
- Publisher
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
- Citation
- SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v.5
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
- Volume
- 5
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/93023
- DOI
- 10.1038/srep11985
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Abstract
- The morphology of the surface and the grain orientation of metal catalysts have been considered to be two important factors for the growth of white graphene (h-BN) by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). We report a correlation between the growth rate of h-BN and the orientation of the nickel grains. The surface of the nickel (Ni) foil was first polished by electrochemical polishing (ECP) and subsequently annealed in hydrogen at atmospheric pressure to suppress the effect of the surface morphology. Atmospheric annealing with hydrogen reduced the nucleation sites of h-BN, which induced a large crystal size mainly grown from the grain boundary with few other nucleation sites in the Ni foil. A higher growth rate was observed from the Ni grains that had the {110} or {100} orientation due to their higher surface energy.
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