Enhanced hot-carrier luminescence in multilayer reduced graphene oxide nanospheres

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chen, Qi ^a   Zhang, Chunfeng ^a   Xue, Fei ^a   Zhou, Yong ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Wang, Ye ^a   Tu, Wenguang ^a   Zou, Zhigang ^a   Wang, Xiaoyong ^a   Xiao, Min ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 84881133079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02315     Document Type: Article

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