Direct production of graphene nanosheets for near infrared photoacoustic imaging

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 8147-8157

  Patel, Mehulkumar A ^a   Yang, Hao ^b   Chiu, Pui Lam ^a   Mastrogiovanni, Daniel D T ^c   Flach, Carol R ^a   Savaram, Keerthi ^a   Gomez, Lesly ^a   Hemnarine, Ashley ^d   Mendelsohn, Richard ^a   Garfunkel, Eric ^c   Jiang, Huabei ^b   He, Huixin ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Science Park High School   (United States)

Author keywords

graphene nanosheets; graphene oxides (GO); microwave chemistry; nitronium ions; oxidation; photoacoustic imaging

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; MICROWAVE CHEMISTRY; NITRONIUM IONS; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

FABRICATION; GRAPHITE; INFRARED DEVICES; IONS; NANOSHEETS; OXIDATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

GRAPHENE;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GRAPHITE; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED RADIATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOACOUSTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; GRAPHITE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED RAYS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884915457     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403429v     Document Type: Article

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