The present invention provides a paper ball-like graphene microsphere, a composite material thereof, and a preparation method therefor. Such paper ball-like graphene microspheres are obtained by chemically reducing graphene oxide microspheres to slowly remove oxygen-containing functional groups on the surface of the graphene oxide to avoid the volume expansion caused by rapid removal of the groups, thereby maintaining a tight bond between graphene sheets without separation; and removing the remaining small number of oxygen-containing functional groups and repairing defect structures in the graphene oxide sheets by means of high temperature treatment, such that the graphene structure becomes perfect at an ultrahigh temperature (2500 to 3000 C.) thereby further improving the bonding ability between the graphene sheets in the microspheres and achieving a dense structure.

The invention relates to the production of carbon nanomaterials, for example graphene, and can be used to produce graphene for use in nanoelectronics.

Graphene is produced by stratifying graphite particles, differing in that graphite particles undergo electrodynamic fluidization in a vacuum in which the energy of the graphite particles exceeds the work necessary for their cleavage along the cleavage planes on graphene layers during brittle fracture when striking against the electrodes.

The method makes it possible to obtain graphene with high productivity, economy and purity of the product.

Provided are plasma processes for producing graphene nanosheets comprising injecting into a thermal zone of a plasma a carbon-containing substance at a velocity of at least 60 m/s standard temperature and pressure STP to nucleate the graphene nano sheets, and quenching the graphene nanosheets with a quench gas of no more than 1000 C. The injecting of the carbon-containing substance may be carried out using a plurality of jets. The graphene nanosheets may have a Raman G/D ratio greater than or equal to 3 and a 2D/G ratio greater than or equal to 0.8, as measured using an incident laser wavelength of 514 nm. The graphene nanosheets may be produced at a rate of at least 80 g/h. The graphene nanosheets can have a polyaromatic hydrocarbon concentration of less than about 0.7% by weight.

A method of fabricating a graphene material, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) illuminating device, and a display device are provided. The method of fabricating the graphene material has steps of synthesizing and reducing a target object. The fabricated graphene material has advantages of good quality and no impurities. The OLED illuminating device has a substrate, an anode layer, a cathode layer, an organic coating layer, and a graphene material and/or a graphene material layer. The graphene material is doped in at least one of the anode layer, the cathode layer, and the organic coating layer, and/or disposed between an anode and the substrate and/or between the organic coating layer and the cathode layer to form the graphene material layer, which has excellent thermal conductivity, and heat within the OLED illuminating device can be effectively and quickly conducted. The display device has the OLED illuminating device, which increase service life.

Methods include producing tunable carbon structures and combining carbon structures with a polymer to form a composite material. Carbon structures include crinkled graphene. Methods also include functionalizing the carbon structures, either in-situ, within the plasma reactor, or in a liquid collection facility. The plasma reactor has a first control for tuning the specific surface area (SSA) of the resulting tuned carbon structures as well as a second, independent control for tuning the SSA of the tuned carbon structures. The composite materials that result from mixing the tuned carbon structures with a polymer results in composite materials that exhibit exceptional favorable mechanical and/or other properties. Mechanisms that operate between the carbon structures and the polymer yield composite materials that exhibit these exceptional mechanical properties are also examined.

A method for removing contaminants from a graphene product uses an accelerated neutral atom beam to remove product contaminants without disruption of the product's crystalline lattice and morphology to enable usage in high purity devices/systems such as exemplified in semi-conductor and like high purity needs applications.

Methods include producing a plurality of carbon particles in a plasma reactor, functionalizing the plurality of carbon particles in-situ in the plasma reactor to promote adhesion to a binder, and combining the plurality of carbon particles with the binder to form a composite material. The plurality of carbon particles comprises 3D graphene, where the 3D graphene comprises a pore matrix and graphene nanoplatelet sub-particles in the form of at least one of: single layer graphene, few layer graphene, or many layer graphene. Methods also include producing a plurality of carbon particles in a plasma reactor; functionalizing, in the plasma reactor, the plurality of carbon particles to promote chemical bonding with a resin; and combining, within the plasma reactor, the functionalized plurality of carbon particles with the resin to form a composite material.

Provided herein are graphene nanoribbons with high structural uniformity and low levels of impurities and methods of synthesis thereof. Also provided herein are graphene nanoplatelets of superior structural uniformity and low levels of impurities and methods of synthesis thereof. Further provided herein are mixtures of graphene nanoribbons and graphene nanoplatelets of good structural uniformity and low levels of impurities and methods of synthesis thereof. The method includes, for example, the steps of depositing catalyst on a constantly moving substrate, forming carbon nanotubes on the substrate, separating carbon nanotubes from the substrate, collecting the carbon nanotubes from the surface where the substrate moves continuously and sequentially through the depositing, forming, separating and collecting steps. Further processing steps convert the synthesized carbon nanotubes to graphene nanoribbons, graphene nanoplatelets and mixtures thereof.

A voltage tunable solar-blind UV detector using a EG/SiC heterojunction based Schottky emitter bipolar phototransistor with EG grown on p-SiC epi-layer using a chemically accelerated selective etching process of Si using TFS precursor.

A method of growing graphene at low temperature on a substrate. The method includes placing a substrate with a layer of cobalt deposited thereon in a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) chamber, providing a carbon precursor gas to the PECVD chamber, generating plasma at between about 350 C. and about 800 C. to decompose the carbon precursor gas to thereby deposit carbon atoms on the cobalt layer and enabling a plurality of the carbon atoms to diffuse through the cobalt layer thereby growing graphene on top of the cobalt layer and in between the substrate and the cobalt layer, removing carbon atoms from top of the cobalt layer, and removing the cobalt layer.