Physicochemical insight into gap openings in graphene

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Y F ^a   Dai, Q Q ^a   Zhao, M ^a   Jiang, Q ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARTICLE SIZE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHITE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84875775731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01524     Document Type: Article

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