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Fabrication of Gate-tunable Graphene Devices for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies with Coulomb Impurities
Published on: July 24, 2015
Photoinduced methylation of graphene
Lei Liao1, Zehao Song, Yu Zhou
1Center for Nanochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China.
Abstract:
Covalent grafting of methyl groups onto the basal plane of graphene is achieved through a photochemical reaction between graphene and di-tert-butyl peroxide. The methylation of graphene is found to be reversible. The edge of single-layer graphene shows the largest methylation reactivity, which provides a route to tailor the edge state of graphene.

