A novel solid-state thermal rectifier based on reduced graphene oxide

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tian, He ^a   Xie, Dan ^a   Yang, Yi ^a   Ren, Tian Ling ^a   Zhang, Gang ^b   Wang, Yu Feng ^a   Zhou, Chang Jian ^a   Peng, Ping Gang ^a   Wang, Li Gang ^a   Liu, Li Tian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84864464340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00523     Document Type: Article

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