Low temperature edge dynamics of AB-stacked bilayer graphene: Naturally favored closed zigzag edges

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhan, Da ^a   Liu, Lei ^a,d   Xu, Ya Nan ^a,b   Ni, Zhen Hua ^c   Yan, Jia Xu ^a   Zhao, Chun ^b   Shen, Ze Xiang ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84860206892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00012     Document Type: Article

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