Abstract: Film structures and related methods and uses thereof are described herein. One or more of the film structures generally include an A layer, a B layer and a C layer. The B layer is positioned between the A layer and the C layer. The A layer includes high density polyethylene. The B layer includes linear low density polyethylene and a nucleating agent. The C layer includes one or more polymers. One or more of the related methods include methods for producing film structures including an A layer, a B layer, and a C layer.

Abstract: A method and system for writing a label (defined within a predetermined region of the sample 110), the label displaying a visible layout of light-modified regions in a predetermined spatial arrangement. The method comprises: modifying regions of a material within the label using light, wherein the modifying comprises using light of a first polarisation state to provide photo-induced optically active regions of a first type having a first optical activity state which is characteristic of having been formed by light of the first polarisation state, in order to encode covert information in the label using the locations of the first type of light-modified regions within the spatial arrangement of the label.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bundle-type carbon nanotube which has a bulk density of 25 to 45 kg/m3, a ratio of the bulk density to a production yield of 1 to 3, and a ratio of a tap density to the bulk density of 1.3 to 2.0, and a method for preparing the same.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes composite siding panels with a structure that reduces dimpling. The siding panel comprises a backing member and a siding member that are joined by an adhesive layer. The adhesive layer may be made with fingers extending from its sides, or may be made with an adhesive that has an elongation factor of at least 1000%. These reduce dimpling.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flexible sheet-shaped material includes a preceding process and a succeeding process. The preceding process is a process for applying a first coating liquid to a material to be coated by a first roll coater. The material to be coated includes a convex portion and becomes the sheet-shaped material. The succeeding process is a process which is performed after the preceding process and which applies a second coating liquid to the material to be coated by a second roll coater. The preceding process is a process for applying the first coating liquid only to the convex portion using a reverse roll coater as the first roll coater. The succeeding process is a process for applying the second coating liquid only to the convex portion by the second roll coater.

Abstract: A print medium can include a cellulose-based paper substrate with a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first surface can be treated with an electrically charged treatment layer. An ink-absorbing layer can be positioned on the electrically charged treatment layer. The ink-absorbing layer can include a polymeric binder and surface-activated fumed silica particles. The surface-activated fumed silica particles can include fumed silica particles that are surface-activated with charged multivalent aluminum salt and organosilane reagent. In further detail, an ink-receiving layer can be positioned on the ink-absorbing layer. The ink-receiving layer can include amorphous silica particles, alumina particles, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A workpiece composed of acrylic material can be modified to produce a highly visual and aesthetic prismatic effect in which white light entering the workpiece can exit the workpiece in separate colors and sets. By applying dichroic paint and primer to precision cuts made into one of the planar surfaces of the workpiece, preferably filling in the spaces with a resin epoxy and then preferably sanding the surface, many more colors can be generated by the white light exiting the workpiece.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to methods for fabricating waveguide structures utilizing substrates. The waveguide structures are formed having input coupling regions, waveguide regions, and output coupling regions formed from substrates. The regions are formed by imprinting stamps into resists disposed on hard masks formed on surfaces of the substrates to form positive waveguide patterns. Portions of the positive waveguide patterns and the hard masks formed under the portions are removed. The substrates are masked and etched to form gratings in the input coupling regions and the output coupling regions. Residual portions of the positive waveguide patterns and the hard masks disposed under the residual portions are removed to form waveguide structures having input coupling regions, waveguide regions, and output coupling regions formed from substrates.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus. A receiving unit receives a data of printing. An output unit outputs image data of each of plural elements which are parts of recording media, if the receiving unit receives print data including height information of a three-dimensional object at positions of each pixel of image data on a two-dimensional image is generated such that the three-dimensional object is formed by stacking the plural elements, and the image data is generated from the height information of the three-dimensional object at the positions of the each pixel.

Abstract: It is the object of the present invention to provide a new polymer coating for low temperature plastics and plastic foams that allows for the application of disperse dyes in a sublimation process that preserves the original properties of the underlying plastic substrate. The composition includes an optically clear synthetic organic polymer base holding two layers, a first reflective layer supported by the low temperature plastic substrate that includes IR radiation reflecting additives, and a second layer supported by the first layer having light scattering particulate additives. The disperse dyes utilized in the invention may include additives to absorb IR radiation provided by an external IR source positioned above the disperse dyes causing the dyes to sublimate and diffuse quickly into the light scattering layer. The combination of these layers allows for diffusion of the disperse dye ink into the light scattering layer while protecting the low temperature plastic below.

Abstract: A plurality of plastic sheets to be fed into a high speed printer for forming printed labels and similar articles and a stack of printed labels formed form the sheets. Each of the sheets or labels includes a core layer and opposed, upper and lower outer skin layers. The upper outer skin layer includes a polyolefin polymer as the predominant component, by weight, thereof and is capable of receiving printed indicia thereon. The core layer includes a polyolefin polymer as the predominant component, by weight, of the core layer; preferably a high crystallinity polypropylene homopolymer. The lower outer skin layer includes a polyolefin polymer as the predominant component by weight therein; the improvement wherein the lower outer skin layer includes a blend of organic and inorganic antiblocking agents or a blend of inorganic antiblocking agents; the blend including less than 10%, by weight, of the lower outer skin layer.

Abstract: Process for the realization of counter-mould elements for the containment of welding bead of plastic profiled elements, in which counter-mould elements (1) have a main body (2) adapted to receive in abutment a pair of profiled elements of plastic material welded together to obtain a frame for windows/doors, each profiled element comprising a welding surface weldable to the welding surface of another profiled element in a welding configuration in which the lateral faces of profiled elements are substantially adjacent to one another and define a locator surface, wherein the process comprises: a phase of acquisition of the profile of a portion of the lateral faces; a phase of definition of the profile of a contact surface (3) of the main body (2) adapted to receive in abutment the locator surface, the profile of the contact surface (3) being substantially complementary to the profile of the locator surface; a phase of three-dimensional molding obtained by means of a three-dimensional molding device (4) to obt

Abstract: An absorbent article includes compressed grooves formed in line symmetry with respect to a longitudinal centerline and including a pair of central compressed grooves, and a pair of front lateral side compressed grooves and a pair of rear lateral side compressed grooves formed on the front lateral side and the rear lateral side, respectively, of the central compressed grooves. The front and rear lateral side compressed grooves each includes a first arc-shaped compressed groove and a second arc-shaped compressed groove, positioned more distant from the centerline than the first arc-shaped compressed groove, which are disposed such that their respective inner circular arcs face each other. An extension line of the central compressed grooves passes between an end of the first compressed groove and an end of the second compressed groove, and does not pass between another end of the first compressed groove and another end of the second compressed groove.

Abstract: White ink includes a crystalline urethane resin and a coloring material.

Abstract: A mask for cleaning a lithography apparatus includes a mask substrate and a coating provided on a surface of the mask substrate. The coating is configured to trap particulate contaminant matter from the lithography apparatus. A method of cleaning a lithography tool is also provided preparing a cleaning mask including a particle trapping layer formed on a substrate. The method includes transferring the cleaning mask through a mask transferring route of the lithography tool. Subsequently, the method includes analyzing a particle trapped by the particle trapping layer.

Abstract: A steam turbine having a turbine housing which has a plurality of turbine housing parts and surrounds a flow space along a turbine longitudinal axis, the turbine housing having a housing wall, a join being formed between two adjacent turbine housing parts. On a side of the housing wall facing the flow space, there is at least one flow shield which shields a wall section of the housing wall from a flow in the flow space. An interstice is formed between the flow shield and the wall section of the housing wall. The interstice has, at least in one region, an opening to the flow space, a fluid-communicating connection of the interstice to the flow space being formed via the opening.

Abstract: A pattern-forming method includes applying a first composition on a surface layer of a substrate to form a first coating film. The surface layer includes a first region which includes a metal atom, and a second region which includes a silicon atom. The first coating film is heated. A portion other than a portion formed on the first region or a portion other than a portion formed on the second region of the first coating film heated is removed, thereby forming a first lamination portion. A second composition is applied on the substrate on which the first lamination portion is formed to form a second coating film. The second coating film is heated or exposed. A portion other than a portion formed on the first lamination portion of the second coating film heated or exposed is removed, thereby forming a second lamination portion.

Abstract: To provide a decorative film in which swelling of a layer containing a fluorinated polymer is suppressed and adhesion of the layer containing the fluorinated polymer is excellent; and a method for producing a three-dimensional molded product provided with a decorative film.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a polyimide film laminated substrate in which stable peeling with a constant low force from an inorganic substrate is enabled when a polyimide film is to be peeled from an inorganic substrate even after heat treatment at a temperature exceeding 500° C. is performed. [Solution] Silane coupling agent treatment is performed on an inorganic substrate on which a thin film of an aluminum oxide, a thin film of a composite oxide of aluminum and silicon, a thin film of molybdenum or tungsten, or an alloy thin film of molybdenum and tungsten is formed continuously or discontinuously on a part of at least one surface thereof, and a polyimide film layer is further laminated on the silane coupling agent layer. In the obtained laminate, the part where the aluminum oxide thin film layer is present functions as an easily-peelable layer, the part where no aluminum oxide thin film layer functions as an easily-bondable part.

Abstract: A method of making a thermal control coating is provided. A primer layer can be applied to a substrate to form an exposed surface. The primer layer can include an epoxy binder and a silica filler. The exposed surface can be treated with an oxygen plasma to form a treated surface. A silicate-based thermal control coating can be applied to the treated surface, for example, by spraying, to form a thermal control coating on the substrate. Spacecraft and spacecraft hardware components coated with the thermal control coating, are also provided.

Abstract: The three-dimensional printing process for obtaining a manufactured article with material effect comprises: a supply step of an image (1) in digital format reproducing a wooden surface portion provided with a plurality of grains (2), comprising a plurality of pixels; an identification step of a color range datum of each of pixels by means of a software; a transformation step of the color range datum into a depth spatial datum to produce a three-dimensional digital model of a manufactured article with material effect (3) provided with an outer surface (4) reproducing the grains (2) by means of a plurality of grooves (5) with variable depth; a three-dimensional printing step of the model to obtain the manufactured article with material effect (3) by means of a molding device (10, 13); and a painting step of the outer surface (4) by means of a paint (9), the paint (9) accumulating in the grooves (5) and reproducing the color range of the grains (2).

Abstract: This inkjet image formation method has: a precoat liquid application step in which a precoat liquid is applied to a film substrate, the precoat liquid including a curing agent, a resin having a function group that reacts with the curing agent, and water; a precoat liquid drying step in which the precoat liquid applied to the film substrate is dried to form a precoat layer; an ink application step in which an ink is applied to the precoat layer by an inkjet method, the ink containing at least a coloring material, an organic solvent, and water; and an ink drying step in which the ink applied to the precoat layer is dried to form an image. The drying temperature T1, which is the highest temperature during the precoat liquid drying step, and the drying temperature T2, which is the highest temperature during the ink drying step, satisfy T2>T1.

Abstract: A cover window includes: a base film, and a coating layer positioned on the base film, and the coating layer includes a thermosetting coating layer and a photocurable coating layer. A display device includes: a display panel, and a cover window positioned on the display panel, and the cover window includes a base film, and a coating layer positioned on the base film, and the coating layer includes a thermosetting coating layer and a photocurable coating layer.

Abstract: Composite articles, and associated methods and systems, are generally provided.

Abstract: A composition contains ethylenically unsaturated quaternary ammonium cations with acetate counterions, where each of the ethylenically unsaturated ammonium cations contain only one non-aromatic carbon-carbon double bond and the composition contains less than one mole-percent chloride relative to quaternary ammonium cations can be polymerized to form a cationic polymer acetate.

Abstract: Embodiments provided herein provide methods for preparing patterned neutral layers using photolithography, and structures prepared using the same. A method of preparing a structure may include disposing a film over a surface of a substrate, and removing plurality of elongated trenches from the film so as to define a plurality of spaced lines. A neutral layer may be disposed over the outer surface of each line, and may include a neutral group attached to the outer surface of that line via a covalent bond or a hydrogen bond. The surface of the substrate between the lines may be substantially free of the neutral layer.

Abstract: A method of making a transparent conductive graphene hybrid, comprising the steps of providing a PMMA/Graphene hybrid, functionalizing the PMMA/Graphene hybrid, providing a transparent substrate, oxidizing the transparent substrate, treating the oxidized substrate and forming a functionalized substrate, applying the PMMA/Graphene hybrid to the functionalized substrate, removing the PMMA, and forming a transparent conductive graphene hybrid. A transparent conductive graphene hybrid comprising a transparent substrate, wherein the transparent substrate is oxidized, and wherein the transparent substrate is treated with TFPA-NH2 to form a functionalized substrate, and a layer of graphene on the functionalized substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a radio-wave-transmissive cover of a vehicle radar, which exhibits a metallic color and is imparted with improved radio-wave transmission performance. The radio-wave-transmissive cover may include an optical film formed by simultaneously depositing an aluminum (Al) material and a low-melting-point material, such that a radio wave radiated from an antenna of a radar, for example, provided in a vehicle is transmitted. The radio-wave-transmissive cover includes a substrate, and an optical film including aluminum (Al) and a low-melting-point metal having a melting point less than the melting point of aluminum (Al) on the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Bio-inspired carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite laminates are provided. The CFRP laminates display high out-of-plane strength and ductility due to the incorporation of defects (e.g. areas of delamination) which are purposefully introduced into the laminate layers.

Abstract: A laser marking system comprises at least one controller to control an array of optical devices, between a laser source and a scan head. The array applies a selected pattern of portions of the received spatial profile of the laser beam to the substrate to achieve a second intensity different from the first intensity of laser beam at a rate of power deposition relative to a rate of thermal diffusion in the substrate for a predetermined time interval to thermally heat locations of the substrate with the selected pattern of the portions. The second intensity effectuates carbonization of materials of the substrate to create a mark without ablation.

Abstract: A white toner including toner particles each of which contains a binder resin and a white pigment whose content is 20 to 80 mass % or less, wherein the binder resin contains a polymer A having a first and a second monomer unit, wherein the content of the first monomer unit is 5.0 to 60.0 mol % with respect to the total number of moles of all monomer units in the polymer A, wherein the content of the second monomer unit is 20.0 to 95.0 mol % with respect to the total number of moles of all the monomer units in the polymer A, wherein the SP value of the first monomer unit and the SP value of the second monomer unit satisfy specific relations, and wherein the white pigment has a total amount of a surface acidic group amount and a surface basic group amount of 60 ?mol/g or more.

Abstract: A laminate includes a fabric; and a thermoplastic film, wherein the thermoplastic film is a multilayer film including an adhesive layer including a thermoplastic polyester elastomer and a barrier layer that is bonded to the adhesive layer, and that has a melting point that is higher than a melting point of the adhesive layer, and that includes a polymer, and wherein the fabric includes a polyester, and the fabric has a fabric weight of 190 g/m2 or less.

Abstract: Absorbent articles having components bearing graphics printed using particular inkjet ink compositions and fluid sets are disclosed. The aqueous inkjet ink compositions may have a dynamic viscosity ?5 centipoise (5 mPa-sec) at 25° C., and include: (a) a polymer-dispersed pigment colorant at 0.9-6 weight %; (b) a composition consisting of one or more compounds represented by the following Structure (I): HO—CH2—CH2—R??(I) wherein R may be a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted phenoxy group, at 0.5-2 weight %; and (c) a water-soluble humectant, co-solvents, or both, at 20 weight %. Each colorant may have a 50th percentile particle diameter ?70 nm and a 95th percentile particle diameter ?150 nm. Replenishment or maintenance fluids containing a Structure (I) compound may also be used. Methods for printing using the aqueous inkjet ink compositions and the fluid sets are also disclosed.

Abstract: An ink includes water, a compound represented by the following Chemical formula 1, Pigment Red 269 represented by the following Chemical formula 2, and alkylene glycol alkyl ether, wherein the proportion of the compound represented by the following Chemical formula 1 in a total amount of the Pigment Red 269 is 2 or less percent by mass.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminate including a support and a substrate having a back surface to be processed and a non-processed surface, the support and the non-processed surface being bonded via a temporary adhesive material. The method includes the steps: (a) laminating the temporary adhesive material on either or both of the support and the non-processed surface of the substrate; (b) preheating the support and the substrate before the bonding is started; and (c) bonding the support and the substrate via the temporary adhesive material. In the step (b), the substrate is heated to a temperature of 50° C. or more and 250° C. or less, while the support is heated to a temperature of 50° C. or more and 250° C. or less but different from that of the substrate. In the step (c), the bonding is started with the temperatures of the support and the substrate after the preheating being different.

Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to polyurethane dispersions. In one example, a polyurethane dispersion can include a polyurethane with a polymeric ionic side chain and a polymeric non-ionic side chain. The polyurethane can be formed of polymerized monomers including a diisocyanate, a first polymeric diol, and a second polymeric diol. The first polymeric diol can include a first polymer chain replacing a hydrogen atom of a thiol group of a 1-thioglycerol molecule. The first polymer chain can include a block of a polymerized ionic group-containing vinyl monomer. The second polymeric diol can include a second polymer chain replacing a hydrogen atom of a thiol group of a 1-thioglycerol molecule. The second polymer chain can include a block of a polymerized non-ionic vinyl monomer, and the second polymer chain can be devoid of ionic groups.

Abstract: A display apparatus having color filters and a light-shielding element is provided. The color filters and the light-blocking element are disposed on a surface of a device substrate. The color filters on a display area of the device substrate can include a dye. The light-blocking element on a bezel area of the device substrate can have a stacked structure of a first blocking filter layer and a second blocking filter layer. The first blocking filter layer and the second blocking filter layer can include the different dye. In the display apparatus, process efficiency can be improved, and the overall thickness can be reduced.

Abstract: A high dose rapidly dispersing three-dimensionally printed dosage form comprising a high dose of water soluble drug in a porous matrix that disperses in water within a period of less than about 15 seconds is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of preparing the dosage form and of treating a condition, disease or disorder that is therapeutically responsive to the drug.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dichroic spherical antenna. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a dichroic spherical antenna comprises a collector disposed within a spherically-shaped reflector; wherein the reflector comprises a coating. In some embodiments, the coating comprises a plurality of ferromagnetic particles dispersed throughout an epoxy-based medium. In some embodiments, the collector's interior is held at a pressure less than the pressure exerted on the exterior of the collector. The present disclosure also relates to a method of receiving radio signals, the method comprising the steps of receiving, at a collector disposed inside a spherical reflector, electromagnetic radiation; wherein the exterior of the reflector comprises a coating.

Abstract: A laminate includes a fabric; and a thermoplastic film, wherein the thermoplastic film is a multilayer film including an adhesive layer including a thermoplastic polyester elastomer and a barrier layer that is bonded to the adhesive layer, and that has a melting point that is higher than a melting point of the adhesive layer, and that includes a polymer, and wherein the fabric includes a polyester, and the fabric has a fabric weight of 190 g/m2 or less.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for manufacturing a display device are provided. An apparatus for manufacturing a display device includes a first unit configured to remove impurities of a support substrate, a second unit configured to form a sacrificial layer on the support substrate, a third unit configured to form a flexible substrate on the sacrificial layer, and a fourth unit configured to form a display unit on the flexible substrate. The second unit includes a moving unit movable in a first direction to receive the support substrate, a first supply nozzle configured to spray a solution onto the support substrate to coat a graphene oxide layer, and a second supply nozzle configured to dry the graphene oxide layer coated on the support substrate while removing a portion of the graphene oxide layer, to form the sacrificial layer.

Abstract: A testing structure is disclosed. The testing structure includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer includes a first pattern. The third layer includes a second pattern. The first layer, the second layer, and the third layer overlap each other. The second layer is connected to a CBCM (charged based capacitance measurement) testing circuit.

Abstract: A method of forming a GaN film includes following steps. A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate is provided. The SOI substrate includes a substrate, an insulator layer and a silicon layer. The insulator layer is disposed on the substrate and the silicon layer is disposed on the insulator layer. The silicon layer is pattered into a patterned silicon layer including a plurality of recessed features. Each recessed feature has a sidewall. A plurality of GaN structures are epitaxially grown from the sidewalls, and the GaN structures are separated from each other. The GaN structures are continuously epitaxially grown vertically and horizontally to merge the GaN structures over top of the patterned silicon layer to form a GaN layer.

Abstract: An anisotropic conductive film is capable of preventing a short circuit between terminals even though narrowing of the interval between connecting terminals advances. An electrically conductive support plate supports a base film having one surface with an adhesive layer. An array plate is disposed to face the adhesive layer and has through holes arranged in a pattern corresponding to the array pattern of electrically conductive particles. A spray sprays the electrically conductive particles together with a liquid while applying a voltage to the electrically conductive particles, in which the electrically conductive particles which are charged with an electrical charge are sprayed together with a liquid from the spray while applying a voltage between the spray and the support plate and the electrically conductive particles which have passed through the through holes of the array plate are arranged on the adhesive layer in the array pattern of the through holes.

Abstract: A multilayer exchange spring recording media consist of a magnetically hard magnetic storage layer strongly exchange coupled to a softer nucleation host. The strong exchange coupling can be through a coupling layer or direct. The hard magnetic storage layer has a strong perpendicular anisotropy. The nucleation host consists of one or more ferromagnetic coupled layers. For a multilayer nucleation host the anisotropy increases from layer to layer. The anisotropy in the softest layer of the nucleation host can be two times smaller than that of the hard magnetic storage layer. The lateral exchange between the grains is small. The nucleation host decreases the coercive field significantly while keeping the energy barrier of the hard layer almost unchanged. The coercive field of the total structure depends on one over number of layers in the nucleation host. The invention proposes a recording media that overcomes the writeability problem of perpendicular recording media.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are tiles, systems, and methods related to manufacturing bullnose or other non-straight edge tiles. In a method of manufacturing a bullnose tile, the method comprises the steps of providing a tile, wherein said tile is a fired ceramic tile comprising a base and a decoration; cutting or milling the tile to form a bullnose edge; transporting the tile to at least a first printing station; printing at least one print layer of print media on the bullnose edge; transporting the tile to a curing station and curing the print media to provide the bullnose tile.

Abstract: A wiring structure, a display substrate and a display device are provided, which belongs to the field of display technology. The wiring structure includes a plurality of hollow patterns connected successively. Each of the hollow patterns includes a first conductive part having a first pattern and a second conductive part having a second pattern. The first conductive part and the second conductive part are connected with each other, and the first pattern and the second pattern have different shapes. Because the wiring structure includes a plurality of hollow patterns connected successively, and the first conductive part and the second conductive part in each hollow pattern have different shapes, even if the conductive part of one shape in the wiring structure is broken in the process of bending, stretching and twisting, the conductive part of the other shape can also ensure good conductivity for the wiring structure.

Abstract: A photo-curable composition having a high polymerization rate and a high polymerization conversion is provided, containing a radical-polymerizable monomer (A), a photopolymerization initiator (B), and a compound (C) serving as a sensitizer and having the following general formula (1), wherein X1 and X2 are selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, alkyl groups, a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, and alkyl groups in which part or all of the hydrogen atoms are substituted with fluorine; where X1 and X2 may be the same or different; and R1 to R10 are independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, halogen atoms, alkyl groups, alkoxy groups, a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, and alkyl groups in which part or all of the hydrogen atoms are substituted with fluorine, wherein R1 to R10 may be the same or different.

Abstract: A transparent electrode member includes a translucent base, and first transparent electrodes that are arranged side by side in a first direction on a first surface of the base, that are translucent, and that are electrically connected to each other. Each of the first transparent electrodes has a dispersion layer including a matrix composed of an insulating material and conductive nanowires dispersing in the matrix. A coupling member that electrically connects two adjacent first transparent electrodes to each other is composed of a conductive region. The density of the conductive region in peripheral regions of each first transparent electrode is higher than that in a central region of the first transparent electrode.

Abstract: A method of forming vertical graphene nanostripes comprising one or several monolayers and characterized by a thickness normal to the one or several monolayers, a length orthogonal to the thickness, and a width orthogonal to the thickness includes providing a substrate, subjecting the substrate to a reduced pressure environment in a processing chamber, and providing methane gas and C6-containing precursor. The method also includes flowing the methane gas and the C6-containing precursor into the processing chamber, establishing a partial pressure ratio of the C6-containing precursor to methane gas in the processing chamber, and generating a plasma. The method further includes exposing at least a portion of the substrate to the methane gas, the C6-containing precursor, and the plasma and growing the vertical graphene nanostripes coupled to the at least a portion of the substrate, wherein the thickness of the vertical graphene nanostripes extends parallel to the substrate.