AVS 59th Annual International Symposium and Exhibition
    Graphene and Related Materials Focus Topic Monday Sessions
       Session GR+EM+NS+PS+SS+TF-MoM

Invited Paper GR+EM+NS+PS+SS+TF-MoM5
Epitaxial Graphene on Ir(111) - A Playground for the Fabrication of Graphene Hybrid Materials

Monday, October 29, 2012, 9:40 am, Room 13

Session: Graphene Growth
Presenter: T.W. Michely, Universität zu Köln, Germany
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Carefully optimizing the growth of graphene on Ir(111) yields a virtually defect free, weakly bound epitaxial monolayer ranging from quantum dot sizes to macroscopic extension. In the talk I will show how this system can be used to construct new types of graphene based materials. Specifically, patterned adsorption of transition metals results in dense cluster arrays with exciting magnetic and catalytic properties. Intercalation underneath the graphene allows one to manipulate the properties of graphene itself, e.g. its ability to adsorb atoms and molecules as well as its magnetism.