However, three years after it was first isolated by mechanical exfoliation of graphite 1, there is no doubt that graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms densely packed into a benzene-ring ...

This direct CVD synthesis provides high quality layers of graphene without intensive mechanical or chemical treatments. Figure 1: A chemical vapour deposition route for large-scale graphene ...

So the race is on to produce large quantities of affordable, high-quality graphene. “Mechanical exfoliation” is the technical term for the Sellotape method. But this doesn’t really scale up ...

The Scotch tape method, also known as micromechanical cleavage or mechanical exfoliation, is a simple yet powerful technique used to isolate thin layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials from their ...