Coal as an abundant source of graphene quantum dots

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ye, Ruquan ^a   Xiang, Changsheng ^a   Lin, Jian ^b   Peng, Zhiwei ^a   Huang, Kewei ^a   Yan, Zheng ^a   Cook, Nathan P ^a   Samuel, Errol L G ^a   Hwang, Chih Chau ^a   Ruan, Gedeng ^a   Ceriotti, Gabriel ^a   Raji, Abdul Rahman O ^a   Martí, Angel A ^a,c   Tour, James M ^a,b,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COAL; GRAPHENE; NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT;

CARBON; COAL; COMPOSITE; DISPLACEMENT; ENERGY RESOURCE; OXIDATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ENERGY RESOURCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; OXIDATION; QUANTUM YIELD; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON; COAL; GRAPHITE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM DOTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84890170466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3943     Document Type: Article

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