Oxygen intercalation under graphene on Ir(111): Energetics, kinetics, and the role of graphene edges

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 9951-9963

  Grånäs, Elin ^a   Knudsen, Jan ^a   Schröder, Ulrike A ^a   Gerber, Timm ^a   Busse, Carsten ^a   Arman, Mohammad A ^a   Schulte, Karina ^b   Andersen, Jesper N ^a,b   Michely, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

graphene; Ir(111); oxygen intercalation; scanning tunneling microscopy; X ray photoemission spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; ATOMIC OXYGEN; INTERCALATION PROCESS; IR(111); OXYGEN INTERCALATION; REAL-SPACE; X RAY PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE; IRIDIUM; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

MOLECULAR OXYGEN;

GRAPHITE; INTERCALATING AGENT; IRIDIUM; NANOMATERIAL; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; INTERCALATING AGENTS; IRIDIUM; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84870438850     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303548z     Document Type: Article

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