Revealing the ultrafast process behind the photoreduction of graphene oxide

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gengler, Régis Y N ^a   Badali, Daniel S ^a   Zhang, Dongfang ^a   Dimos, Konstantinos ^b   Spyrou, Konstantinos ^b   Gournis, Dimitrios ^b   Miller, R J Dwayne ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE OXIDE; SOLVENT;

ABSORPTION; CARBON; IRRADIATION; OXIDE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REACTION KINETICS; REACTION RATE; REDUCTION; SOLVENT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; REDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84885167821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3560     Document Type: Article

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