Preferred Label : graphene layer;
IUPAC definition : A single carbon layer of the graphite structure, describing its nature by analogy
to a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon of quasi infinite size.;
Scope note : previously, descriptions such as graphite layers, carbon layers or carbon sheets have
been used for the term graphene. because graphite designates that modification of
the chemical element carbon, in which planar sheets of carbon atoms, each atom bound
to three neighbours in a honeycomb-like structure, are stacked in a three-dimensional
regular order, it is not correct to use for a single layer a term which includes the
term graphite, which would imply a three-dimensional structure. the term graphene
should be used only when the reactions, structural relations or other properties of
individual layers are discussed.;
Origin ID : G02683;
See also
A single carbon layer of the graphite structure, describing its nature by analogy
to a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon of quasi infinite size.
