Room-temperature ferromagnetism of graphene

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 220-224

  Wang, Yan ^a,b   Hoang, Yi ^a,b   Song, You ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a,b   Ma, Yanfeng ^a,b   Liang, Jiajie ^a,b   Chen, Yongsheng ^a,b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON-BASED MATERIALS; GRAPHENE; MOLECULAR-BASED MAGNETS; ROOM TEMPERATURES; ROOM-TEMPERATURE FERROMAGNETISMS; TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

FERROMAGNETISM;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MAGNETISM; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MAGNETICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 61649121142     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl802810g     Document Type: Article

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