Processing of giant graphene molecules by soft-landing mass spectrometry

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 276-280

  Räder, Hans Joachim ^a   Rouhanipour, Ali ^a   Talarico, Anna Maria ^b   Palermo, Vincenzo ^b   Samorì, Paolo ^b,c   Müllen, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DESORPTION; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUBLIMATION; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

NANOGRAPHENE; THERMAL CRACKING; VACUUM SUBLIMATION;

MACROMOLECULES;

GRAPHITE; ION;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CAPILLARY; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CAPILLARIES; CATALYSIS; GRAPHITE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IONS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33645640224     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1597     Document Type: Article

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