Strong oxidation resistance of atomically thin boron nitride nanosheets

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1457-1462

  Li, Lu Hua ^a   Cervenka, Jiri ^b   Watanabe, Kenji ^c   Taniguchi, Takashi ^c   Chen, Ying ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

atomically thin boron nitride; nanosheet; oxidation; Raman spectroscopy; stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894624791     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500059s     Document Type: Article

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