Morphological Characterization of Graphene Plans Stacking

International audienceThe graphene is a material obtained when carbon atoms form large planar molecules. Well organized, large graphene molecules stacked ontop each other convey to graphene particularly interesting properties useful in nuclear industry. Understanding how the organization on the molecular scale influences the mechanical properties of the material is a key element in the material manufacturing process. In this scope, features like local orientation and length have already been largely explored in the literature. This paper brings a new feature evaluating the number of plans stacked ontop each other and the length of this stacking. It allows obtaing other features such as the overall rate of organization or locality and preferential orientation. These informations, synthesized in the form of histograms provides a key information in the processus the material design. Experimental results obtained on images taken by an electronic scanning microscope are presented to illustrate the proposed method