TY - JOUR
T1 - Fractal-Theory-Based Control of the Shape and Quality of CVD-Grown 2D Materials
AU - Li, Junzhu
AU - Chen, Mingguang
AU - Zhang, Chenhui
AU - Dong, Haocong
AU - Lin, Weiyi
AU - Zhuang, Pingping
AU - Wen, Yan
AU - Tian, Bo
AU - Cai, Weiwei
AU - Zhang, Xixiang
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): URF/1/2634 (CRG4), URF/1/2996 (CRG5)
Acknowledgements: The research reported in this publication was funded by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), under Award Nos. URF/1/2634 (CRG4) and URF/1/2996 (CRG5). The authors appreciate the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11335006) and Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation.
PY - 2019/7/2
Y1 - 2019/7/2
N2 - The precise control of the shape and quality of 2D materials during chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes remains a challenging task, due to a lack of understanding of their underlying growth mechanisms. The existence of a fractal-growth-based mechanism in the CVD synthesis of several 2D materials is revealed, to which a modified traditional fractal theory is applied in order to build a 2D diffusion-limited aggregation (2D-DLA) model based on an atomic-scale growth mechanism. The strength of this model is validated by the perfect correlation between theoretically simulated data, predicted by 2D-DLA, and experimental results obtained from the CVD synthesis of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenides. By applying the 2D-DLA model, it is also discovered that the single-domain net growth rate (SD-NGR) plays a crucial factor in governing the shape and quality of 2D-material crystals. By carefully tuning SD-NGR, various fractal-morphology high-quality single-crystal 2D materials are synthesized, achieving, for the first time, the precise control of 2D-material CVD growth. This work lays the theoretical foundation for the precise adjustment of the morphologies and physical properties of 2D materials, which is essential to the use of fractal-shaped nanomaterials for the fabrication of new-generation neural-network nanodevices.
AB - The precise control of the shape and quality of 2D materials during chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes remains a challenging task, due to a lack of understanding of their underlying growth mechanisms. The existence of a fractal-growth-based mechanism in the CVD synthesis of several 2D materials is revealed, to which a modified traditional fractal theory is applied in order to build a 2D diffusion-limited aggregation (2D-DLA) model based on an atomic-scale growth mechanism. The strength of this model is validated by the perfect correlation between theoretically simulated data, predicted by 2D-DLA, and experimental results obtained from the CVD synthesis of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenides. By applying the 2D-DLA model, it is also discovered that the single-domain net growth rate (SD-NGR) plays a crucial factor in governing the shape and quality of 2D-material crystals. By carefully tuning SD-NGR, various fractal-morphology high-quality single-crystal 2D materials are synthesized, achieving, for the first time, the precise control of 2D-material CVD growth. This work lays the theoretical foundation for the precise adjustment of the morphologies and physical properties of 2D materials, which is essential to the use of fractal-shaped nanomaterials for the fabrication of new-generation neural-network nanodevices.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/656143
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201902431
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068527451&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/adma.201902431
DO - 10.1002/adma.201902431
M3 - Article
C2 - 31265203
SN - 0935-9648
VL - 31
SP - 1902431
JO - Advanced Materials
JF - Advanced Materials
IS - 35
ER -