Graphene-How a Laboratory Curiosity Suddenly Became Extremely Interesting
Graphene-How a Laboratory Curiosity Suddenly Became Extremely Interesting
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201004096
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Boehm, Hanns-Peter
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作者:
Boehm, Hanns-Peter
Once again, an allotrope of elemental carbon is at the center of intensive research. After the flood of publications on intercalation compounds of graphite (triggered by a report in 1974 on its very high electrical conductance),[1] fullerenes (1985),[2] and carbon nanotubes (1991),[3] graphenes have been the subject of countless publications since 2004.[4, 5] By graphene, one understands single-carbon hexagonal networks within the structure of graphite. The term was recommended by the relevant IUPAC commission on the suggestion of Eberhard Stumpp (TU Clausthal) and a subcommittee of the Working Group Carbon of the German Ceramic Society to enable characterization of the properties of single two-dimensional layers which exist independently of neighboring carbon layers. The older expression “graphite layers” is unsuitable in this respect, because a three-dimensionally arranged structure with an ABAB… stacking sequence of the layers is identified in “graphite”. According to Recommended IUPAC Terminology for the Description of Carbon as a Solid,[6] the term “graphene” should only be used when reactions, structural relationships, and other properties of individual layers are discussed. However, the term “graphene” is today frequently applied to stacks of a few graphene layers, which often adhere to one another and are only partially overlapping. Graphene layers also occur in disordered carbons with turbostratic stacking, that is, a random rotation and displacement of neighboring layers, for example, in active carbons.Similar to carbon fibers and carbon nanotubes, graphene has a very high tensile strength in the layer direction, which, together with a high flexibility, makes sharp folds in the layer possible.[7] Their radius of curvature corresponds to that of carbon nanotubes. Interest in graphenes increased dramatically after Novoselov, Geim et al. reported on the unusual electronic properties of single layers of the graphite lattice, in other words graphene:[5, 8, 9] Graphene is a semiconductor with a zero band gap and is characterized by an exceptionally high mobility of the charge carrier, a very high electrical con-