Sequential electrochemical unzipping of single-walled carbon nanotubes to graphene ribbons revealed by in situ Raman spectroscopy and imaging

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 234-242

  John, Robin ^a   Shinde, Dhanraj B ^b   Liu, Lili ^c   Ding, Feng ^c,d   Xu, Zhiping ^e   Vijayan, Cherianath ^a   Pillai, Vijayamohanan K ^f   Pradeep, Thalappil ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f CENTRAL ELECTROCHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

density functional based tight binding calculations; electrochemistry; graphene; Raman spectral mapping; single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL DEPENDENCES; IN-SITU RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RADIAL BREATHING MODE; RAMAN SPECTRAL; RESONANT RAMAN SCATTERING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; TIGHT-BINDING CALCULATIONS;

BINDING ENERGY; CHIRALITY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GRAPHENE; PHOTOMAPPING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84893514105     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403289g     Document Type: Article

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