Photocontrolled molecular structural transition and doping in graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8878-8886

  Peimyoo, Namphung ^a   Li, Jiewei ^a,b   Shang, Jingzhi ^a   Shen, Xiaonan ^a   Qiu, Caiyu ^a   Xie, Linghai ^b   Huang, Wei ^b   Yu, Ting ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

azobenzene; doping; grapheme; molecular conformation change; photoeffect; photoswitching; Raman

Indexed keywords

GRAPHEME; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHOTOEFFECT; PHOTOSWITCHING; RAMAN;

AZOBENZENE; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONFORMATIONS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MOLECULES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84867761340     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302876w     Document Type: Article

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