Drastic reduction in the growth temperature of graphene on copper via enhanced London dispersion force

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Choi, Jin Ho ^a   Li, Zhancheng ^b   Cui, Ping ^a   Fan, Xiaodong ^b   Zhang, Hui ^b   Zeng, Changgan ^a,b   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

COPPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84886078464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01925     Document Type: Article

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