Graphene/elastomer composite-based photo-thermal nanopositioners

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Loomis, James ^a   Fan, Xiaoming ^a   Khosravi, Farhad ^a   Xu, Peng ^a   Fletcher, Micah ^a   Cohn, Robert W ^b   Panchapakesan, Balaji ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; LIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

ELASTICITY; ELASTOMERS; GRAPHITE; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84878635281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01900     Document Type: Article

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