US Patent 8153240 - Carbon nanosheets on a substrate

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This patent from the College of William and Mary teaches a way to fabricate oriented carbon nanoflakes on a substrate without the contamination present when using intercalation techniques. Claim 1 reads:

1. A plurality of carbon nanosheets on a substrate, each of the plurality of carbon nanosheets having a thickness of one nanometer or less, wherein the plurality of carbon nanosheets are aligned and stand on their edges roughly vertically to the substrate.