Ultrasound exfoliation of inorganic analogues of graphene

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Štengl, Václav ^a   Henych, Jiří ^a,b   Slušná, Michaela ^a,b   Ecorchard, Petra ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Exfoliation; Graphene inorganic analogues; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BORON NITRIDE; CARBON NITRIDE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; GRAPHENE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; NITRIDES; ULTRASONICS;

EXFOLIATION; GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; GRAPHITIC STRUCTURES; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); HIGH INTENSITY ULTRASOUNDS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC; LARGE SCALE PREPARATION; SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION;

EXFOLIATION (MATERIALS SCIENCE);

EID: 84899660241     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-167     Document Type: Article

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