Graphene water transfer printing for 3D surface

Abstract

In this paper, we report a novel water transfer printing method, which can transfer chemical vapor deposition (CVD) graphene from copper foil to 3D surface. By the aid of surface tension and Van der Waals force, multilayer graphene film can be transferred to various substrates with smooth surface including glass sheet, colophony filament, silicon oxide micro structure, polyimide (PI) film, polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) tube and optical fibers. As the graphene film can be selectively transferred to assigned position in 3D surface, this simple room temperature transfer method has promising application potential in flexible MEMS and device on curved surface.