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Published February 15, 1984 | Published
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A new adsorption substrate: Single crystal exfoliated graphite

Abstract

We describe the controlled exfoliation of single crystalgraphite flakes intercalated to stage eleven with SbCl_5. The resulting exposed surface remains well oriented in the basal plane. Our best sample to date has an internal surface area of 6 Torr cc and an in‐plane mosaic of 2.3° HWHM (half‐width at half‐maximum). High resolution x‐ray scattering from adsorbed krypton reveals an average step‐free surface size of at least 2000 Å. Experiments which probe orientational information in the layer planes should now be possible.

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© 1984 American Institute of Physics. (Received 5 August 1983; accepted for publication 2 November 1983). We would like to thank J. Anderson, J. Angellelo, W. Haag, and P. Sanda for technical assistance, P. Dimon for help with the data analysis, and H. Homma for preparation of intercalated graphite samples. The work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Low Temperature Physics Grant DMR-8207449. One of us (S.E.N.) was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Fellowship.

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