A new rapid chemical route to prepare reduced graphene oxide using copper metal nanoparticles

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Tao ^a   Gao, Jianping ^a   Xu, Xiaoyang ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Gao, Chunjuan ^b   Qiu, Haixia ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC ABILITY; CHEMICAL ROUTES; CU NANO-PARTICLES; DYE POLLUTANTS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCTION ACTIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET-VISIBLE ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOELECTRONS; POWDER METALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

COPPER;

COPPER; GRAPHITE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; COPPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84876909358     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/21/215604     Document Type: Article

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