Realizing Scalable Chemical Vapour Deposition of Monolayer Graphene Films on Iron with Concurrent Surface Hardening by in situ Observations

Bernhard Fickl, Werner Artner, Daniel Matulka +16

Graphene has been suggested as an ultimately thin functional coating for metallurgical alloys such as steels. However, even on pure iron (Fe), the parent phase of steels, growth of…