Synthesis of few-layer graphene over gold nanoclusters supported on MgO

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2252-2263

  Biris, Alexandru Radu ^a   Ardelean, Stefania ^a   Lazar, Mihaela D ^a   Dervishi, Enkeleda ^b   Watanabe, Fumiya ^b   Ghosh, Anindya ^b   Biswas, Abhijit ^c   Biris, Alexandru S ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ISOTOPIC AND MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AU NANOPARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CATALYTIC SYSTEM; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; GOLD NANOCLUSTER; GRAPHENE SHEETS; GRAPHITIC LAYERS; HIGH PURITY; METHANE FLOW; MGO; NANOSTRUCTURED COMPOSITES; SINGLE REACTION STEPS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; GOLD; METHANATION; METHANE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84857911890     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.01.043     Document Type: Article

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