Members of the UW MRSEC Interdisciplinary Education Group (IEG) collaborated with MRSEC researchers to develop a laboratory method that enables students to synthesize research quality graphene by CVD. The method uses safe, inexpensive equipment and reagents so the synthesis can be performed in a high school classroom. To date, the IEG has led the activity with six groups of middle and high school students during field trips at the University of Wisconsin Discovery Center. A manuscript describing the protocol is currently being prepared for the Journal of Chemical Education.
