Efficient exfoliation of graphene sheets in binary solvents

Materials Letters

Volumn 94, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-50

  Tasis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Papagelis, Kostas ^a,b   Spiliopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Galiotis, Costas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Exfoliation; Graphene; Nanomaterials; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BINARY SOLVENT MIXTURES; BINARY SOLVENTS; EXFOLIATION; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE SHEETS; SOLVENT MIXTURES; STRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY;

BINARY MIXTURES; CENTRIFUGATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SOLVENTS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84872090377     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2012.12.027     Document Type: Article

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