High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 563-568

  Hernandez, Yenny ^a   Nicolosi, Valeria ^a   Lotya, Mustafa ^a   Blighe, Fiona M ^a   Sun, Zhenyu ^a   De, Sukanta ^a   McGovern, I T ^a   Holland, Brendan ^a   Byrne, Michele ^a   Gun'ko, Yurii K ^a   Boland, John J ^a   Niraj, Peter ^a   Duesberg, Georg ^a   Krishnamurthy, Satheesh ^a   Goodhue, Robbie ^a   Hutchison, John ^b   Scardaci, Vittorio ^c   Ferrari, Andrea C ^c   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PYRROLIDONE DERIVATIVE; ELEMENT; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DISPERSION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ENERGY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIQUID PHASE EXFOLIATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR SENSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHITE; PHASE TRANSITION; PYRROLIDINONES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 51349127170     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.215     Document Type: Article

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