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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/srep22700
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- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) project CaMGraph from the European Commission [329988]
- EPSRC [EP/J018694/1, EP/L01730X/1, EP/M015173/1]
- John Fell Fund
- EPSRC [EP/J018694/1, EP/L01730X/1, EP/J00541X/1, EP/J00541X/2, EP/M015173/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/L01730X/1, EP/J00541X/2, EP/J018694/1, EP/J00541X/1, EP/M015173/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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There have been many successful attempts to grow high-quality large-area graphene on flat substrates. Doing so at the nanoscale has thus far been plagued by significant scalability problems, particularly because of the need for delicate transfer processes onto predefined features, which are necessarily low-yield processes and which can introduce undesirable residues. Herein we describe a highly scalable, clean and effective, in-situ method that uses thin film deposition techniques to directly grow on a continuous basis ultrathin graphite (uG) on uneven nanoscale surfaces. We then demonstrate that this is possible on a model system of atomic force probe tips of various radii. Further, we characterize the growth characteristics of this technique as well as the film's superior conduction and lower adhesion at these scales. This sets the stage for such a process to allow the use of highly functional graphite in high-aspect-ratio nanoscale components.
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