A technique to pretreat graphite which allows the rapid dispersion of defect-free graphene in solvents at high concentration

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 19212-19218

  Barwich, Sebastian ^a   Khan, Umar ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXFOLIATED GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS; GRAPHITE FLAKES; GRAPHITE POWDER; PRE-TREATMENT; PRE-TREATMENTS; PRETREATMENT TECHNIQUE; STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATIONS;

DEFECTS; DISPERSIONS; GRAPHITE; SOLVENTS; SONICATION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84884565443     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4047006     Document Type: Article

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