- Title
- Discovery of Graphene Growth Alloy Catalysts Using High-Throughput Machine Learning
- Creator
- Li, Xinyu; Shi, Javen Qinfeng; Page, Alister J.
- Relation
- ARC.DP210100873 https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP210100873
- Relation
- Nano Letters Vol. 23, p. 9796-9802
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02496
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Despite today's commercial-scale graphene production using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), the growth of high-quality single-layer graphene with controlled morphology and crystallinity remains challenging. Considerable effort is still spent on designing improved CVD catalysts for producing high-quality graphene. Conventionally, however, catalyst design has been pursued using empirical intuition or trial-and-error approaches. Here, we combine high-throughput density functional theory and machine learning to identify new prospective transition metal alloy catalysts that exhibit performance comparable to that of established graphene catalysts, such as Ni(111) and Cu(111). The alloys identified through this process generally consist of combinations of early- and late-transition metals, and a majority are alloys of Ni or Cu. Nevertheless, in many cases, these conventional catalyst metals are combined with unconventional partners, such as Zr, Hf, and Nb. The approach presented here therefore highlights an important new approach for identifying novel catalyst materials for the CVD growth of low-dimensional nanomaterials.
- Subject
- graphene; catalyst; alloy; chemical vapor deposition; machine learning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1498509
- Identifier
- uon:54557
- Identifier
- ISSN:1530-6984
- Rights
- © 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This publication is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
- Language
- eng
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