Inkjet printing of high conductivity, flexible graphene patterns

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1347-1351

  Secor, Ethan B ^a   Prabhumirashi, Pradyumna L ^a   Puntambekar, Kanan ^a   Geier, Michael L ^a   Hersam, Mark C ^a,b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon; electrode; electronics; exfoliation; nanomaterial; solution phase

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; EXFOLIATION; FLEXIBLE ELECTRODES; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; NANOMATERIAL; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; SOLUTION-PHASE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES;

CARBON; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84876591432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400644c     Document Type: Article

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