We report a stoichiometric derivative of graphene with a fluorine atom attached to each carbon. Raman, optical, structural, micromechanical and transport studies show that the material is qualitatively different from the known graphene-based nonstoichiometric derivatives. Fluorographene is a high-quality insulator (resistivity >10^12 Ohm per square) with an optical gap of 3 eV. It inherits the mechanical strength of graphene, exhibiting Young's modulus of 100 N/m and sustaining strains of 15%. Fluorographene is inert and stable up to 400C even in air, similar to Teflon.
@article{arxiv.1006.3016,
title = {Fluorographene: Two Dimensional Counterpart of Teflon},
author = {R. R. Nair and W. C. Ren and R. Jalil and I. Riaz and V. G. Kravets and L. Britnell and P. Blake and F. Schedin and A. S. Mayorov and S. Yuan and M. I. Katsnelson and H. M. Cheng and W. Strupinski and L. G. Bulusheva and A. V. Okotrub and I. V. Grigorieva and A. N. Grigorenko and K. S. Novoselov and A. K. Geim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.3016},
year = {2010}
}