CVD growth of large area smooth-edged graphene nanomesh by nanosphere lithography

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Min ^a   Fu, Lei ^a   Gan, Lin ^a   Zhang, Chaohua ^a   Rümmeli, Mark ^b   Bachmatiuk, Alicja ^b   Huang, Kai ^c   Fang, Ying ^c   Liu, Zhongfan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84873619052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01238     Document Type: Article

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