Exfoliation and dispersion of graphene in ethanol-water mixtures

Frontiers of Materials Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 176-182

  Liu, Wei Wei ^a   Xia, Bao Yu ^a   Wang, Xiao Xia ^b   Wang, Jian Nong ^c  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

graphene; liquid phase exfoliation; solubility parameter; transparent conductive film

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861790880     PISSN: 2095025X     EISSN: 20950268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11706-012-0166-4     Document Type: Article

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