A rational design of cosolvent exfoliation of layered materials by directly probing liquid-solid interaction

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Halim, Udayabagya ^a   Zheng, Chu Ran ^a   Chen, Yu ^b   Lin, Zhaoyang ^a   Jiang, Shan ^a   Cheng, Rui ^b   Huang, Yu ^a,b   Duan, Xiangfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ALCOHOL; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; METHANOL; MOLYBDENUM; TRANSITION ELEMENT; WATER;

ALCOHOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESIGN; GRAPHITE; MOLYBDENUM; YOUNG MODULUS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTACT ANGLE; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; EVAPORATION; LIQUID; MATERIALS; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID; SURFACE TENSION; SUSPENSION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84881328607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3213     Document Type: Article

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