Highly strong and elastic graphene fibres prepared from universal graphene oxide precursors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Huang, Guoji ^a   Hou, Chengyi ^a   Shao, Yuanlong ^a   Wang, Hongzhi ^a   Zhang, Qinghong ^a   Li, Yaogang ^a   Zhu, Meifang ^a  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; NANOFIBER; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOFIBERS; OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84897644137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04248     Document Type: Article

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