Fabrication of flexible and freestanding zinc chalcogenide single layers

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sun, Yongfu ^a   Sun, Zhihu ^b   Gao, Shan ^a   Cheng, Hao ^b   Liu, Qinghua ^b   Piao, Junyu ^a   Yao, Tao ^b   Wu, Changzheng ^a   Hu, Shuanglin ^c   Wei, Shiqiang ^b   Xie, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; SELENIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; ELECTRODE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NANOFABRICATION; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; THICKNESS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84866979739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2066     Document Type: Article

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