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SUBMITTER: Johns JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3883755 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20131119 48
Chemically interfacing the inert basal plane of graphene with other materials has limited the development of graphene-based catalysts, composite materials, and devices. Here, we overcome this limitation by chemically activating epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) using atomic oxygen. Atomic oxygen produces epoxide groups on graphene, which act as reactive nucleation sites for zinc oxide nanoparticle growth using the atomic layer deposition precursor diethyl zinc. In particular, exposure of epoxidize ...[more]