The material was first created in 2010 by growing graphene on copper foil exposed to xenon difluoride at 30 °C. It was discovered soon after that fluorographene could also be prepared by combining cleaved graphene on a gold grid while being exposed to xenon difluoride at 70 °C. Also in 2010 Withers et al. described exfoliation of fluorinated graphite (monolayer, 24% fluorination) and Cheng et al. reported reversible graphene fluorination. Stoichiometric fluorographene was also prepared by chemical exfoliation of graphite fluoride. It was also shown that graphene fluoride can be transformed back into graphene via reaction with iodine, which forms graphene iodide as a short lived intermediate.
