Recent advances in chemical vapour deposition techniques for graphene-based nanoarchitectures: From synthesis to contemporary applications

Advancements in Noble Metal-Decorated Porous Carbon Nanoarchitectures: Key Catalysts for Direct Liquid Fuel Cells

“…As a well-recognized synthetic technique, CVD methods have their distinctive advantages in preparing porous carbon nanomaterials, such as easy control of pore structure by adjusting the amount of carbon source, fine adaptability to sophisticated architectures based on the corresponding templates, and capacity for the formation of graphitic pore walls. − Especially, the porous carbon nanoarchitectures fabricated by CVD methods commonly possess highly ordered crystalline structures and relatively few topological defects, which can guarantee a low overall charge-transfer resistance of the resultant catalyst. − …”

Sustainable low temperature carrier gas-free growth of graphene on non-catalytic substrates

“…27 Vertically aligned graphene can be produced with consistent properties on a large area via bottom-up synthesis. While other methods including pyrolysis 29 exist for bottom-up synthesis for graphene-like materials, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) 30 are the most widely used for sustainable bottom-up synthesis of graphene. In these processes, a carbon source is decomposed under a controlled atmosphere using heat alone (in CVD) or a combination of heat and plasma (in PECVD).…”

Recent advances in density functional theory approach for optoelectronics properties of graphene

“…Today, the computational density functional theory technique has substantially expanded the materials design process, either alone or in tandem with experimental research, owing to the relatively complex level of concepts and computer modelling [ [1] , [2] , [3] ]. Moreover, at the turn of the last decade, graphene, a single layer of graphite exfoliated by Geim and co-workers, became the focus of intense research due to its remarkable physical properties [ [4] , [5] , [6] ]. Since its discovery, several 2D materials have been synthesized, including hexagonal boron nitride, silicene, transition metal dichalcogenide, antimonene, and phosphorene [ [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] ].…”