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The separation of liquid mixture components is relevant to many applications -- ranging from water purification to biofuel production -- and is a growing concern related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as ``Clean water…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Roger Bellido-Peralta , Fabio Leoni , Carles Calero , Giancarlo Franzese

Graphane is obtained by perfectly hydrogenating graphene. There exists an intermediate material, partially hydrogenated graphene (which we call \textit{hydrographene}), interpolating from pure graphene to pure graphane. It has various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 Motohiko Ezawa

First-principles plane wave calculations predict that Li can be adsorbed on graphene forming a uniform and stable coverage on both sides. A significant part of the electronic charge of the Li-$2s$ orbital is donated to graphene and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Ataca , E. Akturk , S. Ciraci , H. Ustunel

Oxygen molecules are found to exhibit non-negligible reactivity with graphene under strong light irradiation in the presence of water. The reaction is triggered by the laser Raman spectroscopy measurement itself, and the D band (ca. 1340…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-15 Nobuhiko Mitoma , Ryo Nouchi , Katsumi Tanigaki

Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice with remarkable mechanical, electrical and optical properties. For the first time graphene layers suspended on copper meshes were installed into a gas detector…

The interaction of interfacial water with graphitic carbon at the atomic scale is studied as a function of the hydrophobicity of epitaxial graphene. High resolution X-ray reflectivity shows that the graphene-water contact angle is…

The design and production of novel 2-dimensional materials has seen great progress in the last decade, prompting further exploration of the chemistry of such materials. Doping and hydrogenating graphene is an experimentally realised method…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Yasmine S. Al-Hamdani , Angelos Michaelides , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

The electrochemical hydrogenation of graphene induces a robust and reversible conductor-insulator transition, of strong interest in logic-and-memory applications. However, its mechanism remains unknown. Here we show that it proceeds as a…

The basal plane of graphene can function as a selective barrier that is permeable to protons but impermeable to all ions and gases, stimulating its use in applications such as membranes, catalysis and isotope separation. Protons can…

We investigate the thermal conductivity of suspended graphene as a function of the density of defects, ND, introduced in a controllable way. Graphene layers are synthesized using chemical vapor deposition, transferred onto a transmission…

In this work, we present a comprehensive investigation of graphene's thermal conductivity using first-principles density functional perturbation theory calculations, with a focus on the phonon and lattice vibrational properties underlying…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-25 Archishman Gupta , Ankit Arora

Doped graphene sheets are pseudochiral two-dimensional Fermi liquids with abnormal electron-electron interaction physics. We address graphene's Fermi liquid properties quantitatively using a microscopic random-phase-approximation theory and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , Yafis Barlas , T. Pereg-Barnea , A. H. MacDonald

Graphene/AlGaN/GaN heterostructures are proposed to investigate the drag and two-stream instability effects. In this study, graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition was transferred from copper onto the top of the standard AlGaN/GaN…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 A. Rehman , D. B. But , P. Sai , M. Dub , P. Prystawko , A. Krajewska , G. Cywinski , W. Knap , S. Rumyantsev

The penetration of atomic hydrogen through defect-free graphene was generally predicted to have a barrier of at least several eV, which is much higher than the 1 eV barrier measured for hydrogen-gas permeation through pristine graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-26 Wenqi Xiong , Weiqing Zhou , Pengzhan Sun , Shengjun Yuan

We investigate the electronic properties of graphene upon water adsorption and study the influence of the SiO2 substrate in this context using density functional calculations. Perfect suspended graphene is rather insensitive to H2O…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tim O. Wehling , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Alexander I. Lichtenstein

We utilized the momentum transfer(Q)-dependence of Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering (QENS) to reveal the dynamics of water and ethanol confined in Graphene Oxide (GO) powder or membranes at different temperatures and in different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-20 Gobin R. Acharya , Madhusudan Tyagi , Eugene Mamontov , Peter M. Hoffmann

Graphene is a promising candidate for future electronic applications. Manufacturing graphene-based electronic devices typically requires graphene transfer from its growth substrate to another desired substrate. This key step for device…

The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

As mechanical structures enter the nanoscale regime, the influence of van der Waals forces increases. Graphene is attractive for nanomechanical systems because its Young's modulus and strength are both intrinsically high, but the mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Steven P. Koenig , Narasimha G. Boddeti , Martin L. Dunn , J. Scott Bunch

The graphene membrane irradiated by weak activating alternative electric field in terahertz range was considered. The quantum approach based on the time-dependent density matrix method was used. The exact solution was obtained for graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 N. E. Firsova , Yu. A. Firsov