Spontaneous exfoliation of graphite oxide in polar aprotic solvents as the route to produce graphene oxide - Organic solvents liquid crystals

Carbon

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 403-415

  Gudarzi, Mohsen Moazzami ^a,b   Moghadam, Mohamad Hasan Mohamadzadeh ^a   Sharif, Farhad ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; GRAPHENE-BASED COMPOSITES; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; LAYERED STRUCTURES; LIQUID CRYSTAL FORMATION; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; NON-AQUEOUS DISPERSION; POLAR APROTIC SOLVENT;

DISPERSIONS; GRAPHITE; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84883601130     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.07.093     Document Type: Article

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