Direct chemical conversion of graphene to boron- and nitrogen- and carbon-containing atomic layers

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gong, Yongji ^a   Shi, Gang ^b   Zhang, Zhuhua ^b,c   Zhou, Wu ^d   Jung, Jeil ^e   Gao, Weilu ^b   Ma, Lulu ^b   Yang, Yang ^b   Yang, Shubin ^b   You, Ge ^b   Vajtai, Robert ^b   Xu, Qianfan ^b   Macdonald, Allan H ^b   Yakobson, Boris I ^a,b   Lou, Jun ^b   Liu, Zheng ^b,f,g   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^g NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; BORON CARBONITRIDE; BORON NITRIDE; CARBON; GRAPHENE; NITROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FILM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL CONVERSION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONDUCTANCE; CONDUCTOR; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84893052986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4193     Document Type: Article

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