Robust adhesion of flower-like few-layer graphene nanoclusters

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tian, Shibing ^a   Li, Lin ^a   Sun, Wangning ^a   Xia, Xiaoxiang ^a   Han, Dong ^a   Li, Junjie ^a   Gu, Changzhi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84864153312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00511     Document Type: Article

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