Benzene adsorption on Ru(0Â 0Â 0Â 1) and graphene/Ru(0Â 0Â 0Â 1)-How to synthesize epitaxial graphene without STM or LEED?

- A simple kinetics technique is used to synthesize and characterize graphene on a ruthenium support.
- The method is compared with Auger and XPS based techniques.
- Benzene adsorption kinetics on graphene was characterized.