High yield production and purification of few layer graphene by Gum Arabic assisted physical sonication

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chabot, Victor ^a   Kim, Brian ^a   Sloper, Brent ^a   Tzoganakis, Costas ^a   Yu, Aiping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 84875197079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01378     Document Type: Article

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