A facile process for soak-and-peel delamination of CVD graphene from substrates using water

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gupta, Priti ^a   Dongare, Pratiksha D ^a,b   Grover, Sameer ^a   Dubey, Sudipta ^a   Mamgain, Hitesh ^c   Bhattacharya, Arnab ^a   Deshmukh, Mandar M ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^c WITec Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und Technologie GmbH   (Germany)

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EID: 84893059730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03882     Document Type: Article

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