Chemical versus thermal folding of graphene edges

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1242-1247

  Su, Ninghai ^a   Liu, Miao ^a   Liu, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; graphene; kinetics; molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055176448     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0175-0     Document Type: Article

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