Assembly of suspended graphene on carbon nanotube scaffolds with improved functionalities

Nano Research

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 783-795

  Lim, Sharon Xiaodai ^a,b   Koon, Gavin Kok Wai ^b   Zhan, Da ^d   Shen, Zexiang ^d   Özyilmaz, Barbaros ^a,b,c   Sow, Chornghaur ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; electron beam irradiation; graphene; photocurrent; strain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869866462     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0262-x     Document Type: Article

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