Development of process to transfer large areas of LPCVD graphene from copper foil to a porous support substrate

In this thesis, I present a procedure by which to transfer greater than 25 mm² areas of high-quality graphene synthesized via low-pressure chemical vapor deposition from copper foil to porous support substrates. Large-area, high quality graphene on a porous support would serve as a platform by which to create high efficiency porous graphene membranes for use in liquid and gas-phase separation technologies. In this procedure, we transfer greater than 25 mm² areas of graphene with few holes and tears to both gold Quantifoil Holey Carbon transmission electron microscope grids with 1.2 [mu]m diameter pores and to Sterlitech polycarbonate track etch membranes with 200 nm diameter pores by bonding the substrates to the graphene then wet-etching the copper. The resulting membrane quality is characterized via Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, diffraction patterning, and aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• O'Hern, Sean C. (Sean Carson)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Rohit Karnik.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68952

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/68952