Nanotomy-based production of transferable and dispersible graphene nanostructures of controlled shape and size

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mohanty, Nihar ^a   Moore, David ^b   Xu, Zhiping ^c   Sreeprasad, T S ^a   Nagaraja, Ashvin ^a   Rodriguez, Alfredo Alexander ^a   Berry, Vikas ^a  

^a Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; NANORIBBON;

ARTICLE; FILM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTOMY; PARTICLE SIZE; SYNTHESIS; THICKNESS;

EID: 84867384989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1834     Document Type: Article

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