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Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Improve the Commercial Production and

Utilization of Graphene Produced Through Chemical Vapor Deposition - Research Proposal
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Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Improve the Commercial Production and

Utilization of Graphene Produced Through Chemical Vapor Deposition
Graphene has provided numerous and welcome surprises to material scientists since the
successful mechanical exfoliation of the material introduced it to the world in 2004 (Liu et al.,
2022). These revelations about graphene’s physical, chemical, and electrical properties increased
materials engineering research globally in academia and the engineering industry. One of the
most successful methods for extracting graphene is chemical vapor deposition (CVD), which
recently garnered significant attention from scientists (Yi et al., 2018). CVD produces high-
quality graphene using a bottom-up approach, resulting in numerous shortcomings such as costs,
time, and the extraction of graphene from the surface on which it was deposited (Critchley,
2019). Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most promising tools that could provide a solution
to the challenges facing the application of CVD in graphene production is artificial intelligence
(AI). This article proposes a study to determine how AI could help solve the commercialization
challenges facing the CVD approach to graphene production.
Problem statement
As noted in the previous section, graphene production using the CVD approach has
several advantages and shortcomings that material scientists contend with in modern industry.
CVD is the most reliable approach to producing single-layer graphene, which has essential
applications in electronics and other engineering industries due to its unique properties
(Pizzocchero, 2022). The study proposed in this paper will focus on the challenges that hinder
the widespread commercialization of graphene production techniques that utilize the CVD
approach to identify the obstacles that researchers could study and solve. These challenges
include the issues identified in the previous section of this article, including the extraction of
deposited graphene, the cost of doing each process directly on the material, and the time taken to
complete the process (Critchley, 2019). AI techniques offered one option to material scientists to
improve nanomaterial characterization and other processes (Leong et al., 2020). This study will
investigate how AI could solve procedural and technical challenges in CVD applications.
Objectives
This study's primary objective will be to investigate how AI could help improve graphene
production through CVD and enhance product quality. CVD's ability to produce high-quality
graphene makes it an integral approach in the modern electronics industry, making its
enhancement a crucial milestone for material scientists. The proposed study will examine how
AI solves issues in other production techniques in the materials engineering sector to develop a
machine learning (ML) model to improve the CVD commercialization process. This study's
secondary objective is to identify issues in CVD production to aid future researchers in
innovating solutions using other techniques. The study of graphene is still in its infancy, given
the potential provided by the material in various engineering sectors such as electronics and
transportation. Therefore, researchers will attempt numerous solutions to the challenges facing
the commercialization of CVD. This research hopes to increase the knowledge repository
available to future researchers on developing graphene using CVD and the current difficulties
hindering commercialization. The following section outlines the motivation for this research
proposal and its benefits to the engineering sector.
Justification
The commercialization of CVD will lay the foundation for the growth of graphene
applications in different engineering domains, introducing the world to the material's full
potential that has wowed scientists (Ullah et al., 2019). This study will introduce AI's advances
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in developing high-quality graphene on a commercial scale by examining the challenges that ML

techniques could solve in the production process. The researchers will focus on the challenges
that hinder the commercial production of graphene using CVD and identify AI techniques
capable of offering viable solutions to the problem. Therefore, the research will provide possible
AI solutions for commercializing CVD in the modern engineering environment. Graphene's
exciting chemical, physical and electrical properties make its study of critical significance to
material scientists. The structure of graphene makes it transparent and gives it high thermal
conductivity, a high Young's modulus, and other excellent electrical and thermal properties for
engineering research (Muslim et al., 2019). The proposed study will make these materials
available for engineering research once commercialization is possible and AI solves the
production bottlenecks.
The researchers' dream is to see graphene reach its full potential as a primary material in
future electronics and other engineering fields, given the material's promise to solve most of the
challenges facing modern material scientists. Cheap graphene will reduce average costs for
developing high-performance electronic devices, rigid and light materials for the transportation
sector, and highly-conductive and inflexible materials for other applications. The quality of the
graphene produced through CVD also requires significant improvement to mitigate the structural
defects that occur during the stages of production (Yi et al., 2018). The application of AI could
aid in detecting these defects as they form and create conditions that mitigate these defect
formations. Modern techniques to alleviate these issues include meticulous preparation of the
surface before graphene production to tune the environment to conditions that prevent known
defect-formation processes (Pizzocchero, 2022). The preparation procedures cost time and
resources, necessitating novel approaches to tackle this challenge cheaply and easily. AI solves
issues such as cost reduction for processes requiring intensive inputs by narrowing down the
variables that affect the outcome desired by researchers.
AI also excels at detecting correlations in functions with non-linear relationships (Muslim
et al., 2019), making it an ideal candidate for solving most challenges in CVD commercialization
which pose seemingly non-related challenges. This observation implies that machine-learning
agents may notice relationships that humans tend to miss in non-linear states of a system. The
CVD process involves a system with numerous variables, posing significant challenges for
material scientists seeking to improve the performance of the process. However, AI models and
techniques may quickly identify these correlations, propose solutions and focus on other
unresolved areas of the procedure. The researchers suggested applying AI techniques due to their
versatility in regions with complex variables and states, such as the CVD processes. This
recommendation seemed like the natural choice for modern material science researchers, given
the explosion of AI models that handle similar complexity levels in other scientific sectors.
Therefore, they felt justified in suggesting that AI could offer the same benefits to material
scientists that it gives to bio-researchers and other areas where it has found commercial
applications.
Conclusion
This article proposed a study to examine the challenges facing the commercialization of
CVD in graphene production and recommend AI solutions for these challenges. The study aimed
to enhance the commercial production of high-quality single-layered graphene using CVD by
capitalizing on the advances in the modern technology sector. Its primary objective was to
include AI techniques in CVP production processes to enhance performance. It also aimed at
providing a repository of the challenges facing CVD for future researchers hoping to tackle the
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issues using other techniques. The researchers justified their proposed solution by noting the
successes of AI in fields where research involves numerous variables, such as biomedical
research and the similarity between the complexity of the processes to CVD process complexity.
Therefore, the CVD commercialization problem's solution seemed viable, given the evidence
from these scientific fields.
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