Nanopatterned Graphene: Direct Growth of Nanopatterned Graphene on Sapphire and Its Application in Light Emitting Diodes (Adv. Funct. Mater. 31/2020)

In article number 2001483, Tongbo Wei, Feng Ding, Peng Gao, Zhongfan Liu, and co-workers report the direct growth of nano-patterned graphene on an oxide substrate via selective growth on the c-plane of a nano-patterned sapphire substrate, as guided by density functional theory calculations and analogue simulations. The thus obtained nano-patterned graphene shows potential applications such as high-performance light-emitting diodes.