Files in this item
Files | Description | Format |
---|---|---|
application/pdf ![]() | (no description provided) |
Description
Title: | Synthesis and characterization of graphene-palladium thin film composites for nano-gilding |
Author(s): | Robertson, Matthew Glen |
Advisor(s): | Tawfick, Sameh |
Department / Program: | Mechanical Sci & Engineering |
Discipline: | Mechanical Engineering |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | M.S. |
Genre: | Thesis |
Subject(s): | Graphene
Palladium Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) |
Abstract: | Graphene is a superior material that exhibits excellent mechanical and electrical properties, as well as being useful for chemical functionalities. A few layers of graphene are extremely lightweight but highly multifunctional, and as such present an opportunity to add increasing performance to engineering design. However, it is difficult to uniformly apply a few layers of graphene directly onto materials, while maintaining the intrinsic properties of synthesized graphene and a strong interfacial strength between them. To the end of synthesizing useful graphene-based composites, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of graphene on thin palladium leaves is studied for the potential of nano-gilding based coating of surfaces for added functionality. This work presents the study of gas-precursor CVD synthesis of mulit-layer graphene (MLG) on commercial palladium leaves at low temperature (800 ˚C). Raman mapping methods and nanoindentation for hardness of the composites are presented, as well as a discussion of the limitations on these techniques to analyze the present samples. |
Issue Date: | 2017-07-19 |
Type: | Text |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/98302 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2017 Matthew Robertson |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2017-09-29 2019-09-30 |
Date Deposited: | 2017-08 |
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
-
Dissertations and Theses - Mechanical Science and Engineering
-
Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois