Chemically reduced graphene contains inherent metallic impurities present in parent natural and synthetic graphite

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 12899-12904

  Ambrosi, Adriano ^a   Chua, Chun Kiang ^a   Khezri, Bahareh ^a   Sofer, Zdeněk ^b   Webster, Richard D ^a   Pumera, Martin ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Electrochemistry; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; NATURAL PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL SCIENCE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

CHLORINE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GRAPHITE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84864678198     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205388109     Document Type: Article

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