Is graphene aromatic?

Nano Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-123

  Popov, Ivan A ^a   Bozhenko, Konstantin V ^b   Boldyrev, Alexander I ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

adaptive natural density partitioning (AdNDP); aromaticity; chemical bonding; electronic aromaticity indices; Graphene; multicenter indice (MCI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856719559     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0192-z     Document Type: Article

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