Lipid enhanced exfoliation for production of graphene nanosheets

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 11800-11803

  Pykal, Martin ^a   Šafářová, Klára ^a   MacHalová Šišková, Karolína ^a   Jurečka, Petr ^a   Bourlinos, Athanasios B ^b   Zbořil, Radek ^a   Otyepka, Michal ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; HYDROPHOBICITY; LECITHIN; MICELLES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSHEETS; SOLS;

ENTROPIC REPULSION; EXFOLIATED GRAPHENE; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS; HYDROPHOBIC CHAINS; MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ONE-STEP METHODS;

EXFOLIATION (MATERIALS SCIENCE);

EID: 84879324557     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp401277g     Document Type: Article

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