Lotus leaf-inspired CVD grown graphene for a water repellant flexible transparent electrode

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Nov 21;49(90):10626-8. doi: 10.1039/c3cc46156d.

Abstract

By simply heating commercial copper foil under an oxygen atmosphere and subsequently annealing CuO under a hydrogen atmosphere, the 3D Cu structures in the form of double hierarchical bumps are generated. The contact angle of a lotus leaf-inspired graphene grown on the reconstructed 3D Cu structures is 154.2°.