In-flight gas phase growth of metal/multi layer graphene core shell nanoparticles with controllable sizes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sengar, Saurabh K ^a   Mehta, B R ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a   Singh, Vinod ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 84885465508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02814     Document Type: Article

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