Nature Communications (May 2017)

Highly selective covalent organic functionalization of epitaxial graphene

  • Rebeca A. Bueno,
  • José I. Martínez,
  • Roberto F. Luccas,
  • Nerea Ruiz del Árbol,
  • Carmen Munuera,
  • Irene Palacio,
  • Francisco J. Palomares,
  • Koen Lauwaet,
  • Sangeeta Thakur,
  • Jacek M. Baranowski,
  • Wlodek Strupinski,
  • María F. López,
  • Federico Mompean,
  • Mar García-Hernández,
  • José A. Martín-Gago

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15306
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Organic functionalization is key to the development of graphene-based functional composites, yet selective covalent functionalization is hindered by graphene chemical inertness. Here, the authors demonstrate a versatile route to graphene covalent bonding with amino-terminated organic molecules.