Inflating graphene with atomic scale blisters

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 908-914

  Robertson, Alex W ^a   He, Kuang ^a   Kirkland, Angus I ^a   Warner, Jamie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACTEM; defects; dislocations; electron microscopy; Graphene; HRTEM; TEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894118615     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl404266k     Document Type: Article

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