Graphene growth and properties on metal substrates

TL;DR

This review summarizes recent experimental research on graphene growth on metal substrates and how metallic interfaces influence graphene's electronic properties, highlighting controllable modifications and future research directions.

Contribution

It synthesizes experimental and theoretical data to elucidate the influence of metal substrates on graphene's electronic properties and discusses potential applications.

Findings

Metal substrates significantly modify graphene's electronic structure.

Controllable tuning of graphene properties via substrate selection.

Future research directions for graphene-metal interfaces.

Abstract

Graphene-metal interface as one of the interesting graphene-based objects attracts much attention from both application and fundamental science points of view. This paper gives a timely review of the recent experimental works on the growth and the electronic properties of the graphene-metal interfaces. This work makes a link between huge amount of experimental and theoretical data allowing one to understand the influence of the metallic substrate on the electronic properties of a graphene overlayer and how its properties can be modified in a controllable way. The further directions of studies and applications of the graphene-metal interfaces are discussed.