Big bandgap in highly reduced graphene oxides

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6049-6054

  Lian, Ke Yan ^a,b   Ji, Yong Fei ^b   Li, Xiao Fei ^b,c   Jin, Ming Xing ^a   Ding, Da Jun ^a   Luo, Yi ^b,d  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC SYSTEM; BAND GAP ENGINEERING; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FRONTIER ORBITALS; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); SYMMETRIC SYSTEMS;

ATOMS; GRAPHENE; OXYGEN;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 84875732053     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp3118067     Document Type: Article

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