Graphene oxide-periodic mesoporous silica sandwich nanocomposites with vertically oriented channels

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7437-7450

  Wang, Zheng Ming ^a,b   Wang, Wendong ^a   Coombs, Neil ^a   Soheilnia, Navid ^a   Ozin, Geoffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

graphene oxide; nanocomposite; periodic mesoporous silica; vertically aligned pore

Indexed keywords

ADMICELLES; ANALYTES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HEXAGONAL SYMMETRY; MESO-PORES; MESOPOROUS; MESOPOROUS SILICA; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; SEMICONDUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SILICA PRECURSORS; SINGLE LAYER; SURFACTANT TEMPLATE; SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; SYNTHESIS CONDITIONS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PLATELETS; SILICA; SILICATES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 78650748205     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102618n     Document Type: Article

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