Electrochemically exfoliated graphene as solution-processable, highly conductive electrodes for organic electronics

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3598-3606

  Parvez, Khaled ^a   Li, Rongjin ^a   Puniredd, Sreenivasa Reddy ^a   Hernandez, Yenny ^a   Hinkel, Felix ^a   Wang, Suhao ^a   Feng, Xinliang ^a,b   Müllen, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

electrochemical exfoliation; high quality graphene; organic field effect transistors; solution processing

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL EXFOLIATION; ELECTRONIC APPLICATION; EXFOLIATED GRAPHENE; HIGH QUALITY; SOLUTION PROCESSABILITY; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; SOURCE/DRAIN ELECTRODES;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRODES; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPLATING INDUSTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPLATING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUTIONS; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 84876583278     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400576v     Document Type: Article

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