Interlayer catalytic exfoliation realizing scalable production of large-size pristine few-layer graphene

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Geng, Xiumei ^a   Guo, Yufen ^a   Li, Dongfang ^a   Li, Weiwei ^a   Zhu, Chao ^a   Wei, Xiangfei ^a   Chen, Mingliang ^a   Gao, Song ^a   Qiu, Shengqiang ^a   Gong, Youpin ^a   Wu, Liqiong ^a   Long, Mingsheng ^a   Sun, Mengtao ^b   Pan, Gebo ^a   Liu, Liwei ^a  

^a SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84873181547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01134     Document Type: Article

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