title: Patterning and electronic tuning of laser scribed graphene for flexible all-carbon devices.
abstract: Engineering a low-cost graphene-based electronic device has proven difficult to accomplish via a single-step fabrication process. Here we introduce a facile, inexpensive, solid-state method for generating, patterning, and electronic tuning of graphene-based materials. Laser scribed graphene (LSG) is shown to be successfully produced and selectively patterned from the direct laser irradiation of graphite oxide films under ambient conditions. Circuits and complex designs are directly patterned onto various flexible substrates without masks, templates, post-processing, transferring techniques, or metal catalysts. In addition, by varying the laser intensity and laser irradiation treatments, the electrical properties of LSG can be precisely tuned over 5 orders of magnitude of conductivity, a feature that has proven difficult with other methods. This inexpensive method for generating LSG on thin flexible substrates provides a mode for fabricating a low-cost graphene-based NO(2) gas sensor and enables its use as a heterogeneous scaffold for the selective growth of Pt nanoparticles. The LSG also shows exceptional electrochemical activity that surpasses other carbon-based electrodes in electron charge transfer rate as demonstrated using a ferro-/ferricyanide redox couple.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
authors.forename: Veronica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Strong
authors.forename: Sergey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dubin
authors.forename: Maher F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: El-Kady
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lech
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Bruce H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Weiller
authors.forename: Richard B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Kaner
mesh_terms: D055615:Electrical Equipment and Supplies; D004563:Electrochemistry; D004566:Electrodes; D006108:Graphite / Q000737:chemistry*; D007834:Lasers; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009585:Nitrogen Dioxide / Q000032:analysis; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010984:Platinum / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D010984:Platinum; D006108:Graphite; D009585:Nitrogen Dioxide