Towards intrinsic magnetism of graphene sheets with irregular zigzag edges

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chen, Lianlian ^a   Guo, Liwei ^a   Li, Zhilin ^a   Zhang, Han ^a   Lin, Jingjing ^a   Huang, Jiao ^a   Jin, Shifeng ^a   Chen, Xiaolong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS TESTING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHITE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84883787286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02599     Document Type: Article

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