Room-temperature magnetic ordering in functionalized graphene

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hong, Jeongmin ^a   Bekyarova, Elena ^b   Liang, Ping ^c   De Heer, Walt A ^d   Haddon, Robert C ^b   Khizroev, Sakhrat ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California Riverside   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84866054254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00624     Document Type: Article

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