Transformation of carbon monomers and dimers to graphene Islands on Co(0001): Thermodynamics and kinetics

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2952-2958

  Xu, Lingshun ^a,b   Jin, Yuekang ^a,b   Wu, Zongfang ^a,b   Yuan, Qing ^a,b   Jiang, Zhiquan ^a   Ma, Yunsheng ^b   Huang, Weixin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARENT ACTIVATION ENERGY; ATTACHMENT MECHANISM; CO(0001); EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; GRAPHENE GROWTH; GROWTH MECHANISMS; METAL SURFACES; QUANTITATIVE DATA; THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS; TIME-RESOLVED; TRANSFORMATION REACTIONS;

CARBON CLUSTERS; DIMERS; METADATA; PHOTOELECTRONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84873972369     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp400111s     Document Type: Article

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