Dispersion of Pt nanoparticle-doped reduced graphene oxide using aniline as a stabilizer

Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2927-2936

  Grinou, Ali ^a   Yun, Young Soo ^a   Cho, Se Youn ^a   Park, Hyun Ho ^a   Jin, Hyoung Joon ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aniline; Graphene oxide; Hybrid; Pt nanoparticles; Stabilizer

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ETHYLENE GLYCOL SOLUTIONS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; GRAPHITE STRUCTURES; HYBRID; PT NANOPARTICLES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; UNIFORM DISPERSIONS;

ANILINE; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; LOADING; NANOPARTICLES; STABILIZERS (AGENTS);

PLATINUM;

EID: 84876472720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma5122927     Document Type: Article

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