Tuning electrical conductivity and surface area of chemically-exfoliated graphene through nanocrystal functionalization

Materials Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 135, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 1057-1063

  Zhang, Yue ^a   Wang, Shiren ^a   Li, Li ^a   Zhang, Kun ^a   Qiu, Jingjing ^a   Davis, Marauo ^b   Hope Weeks, Louisa J ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Graphene; Nanocomposites; Supercapacitor; Surface area

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SURFACE AREA; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; NANOCRYSTAL FUNCTIONALIZATION; NITROGEN ADSORPTION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RESTACKING; SCAN RATES; SILVER IONS; SILVER NANOCRYSTALS; SUBSEQUENT REDUCTION; SUPER CAPACITOR; SURFACE AREA;

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; HYBRID MATERIALS; METAL IONS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOCRYSTALS; SILVER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84864663184     PISSN: 02540584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2012.06.014     Document Type: Article

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