Scalable production of large quantities of defect-free few-layer graphene by shear exfoliation in liquids

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 624-630

  Paton, Keith R ^a,b   Varrla, Eswaraiah ^a   Backes, Claudia ^a   Smith, Ronan J ^a   Khan, Umar ^a   O'Neill, Arlene ^a   Boland, Conor ^a   Lotya, Mustafa ^a   Istrate, Oana M ^a   King, Paul ^a   Higgins, Tom ^a   Barwich, Sebastian ^a   May, Peter ^a   Puczkarski, Pawel ^a   Ahmed, Iftikhar ^a   Moebius, Matthias ^a   Pettersson, Henrik ^a   Long, Edmund ^a   Coelho, João ^a   O'Brien, Sean E ^a   McGuire, Eva K ^a   Sanchez, Beatriz Mendoza ^a   Duesberg, Georg S ^a   McEvoy, Niall ^a   Pennycook, Timothy J ^c,d   Downing, Clive ^a   Crossley, Alison ^d   Nicolosi, Valeria ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a   more..

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b THOMAS SWAN AND CO LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; LIQUIDS; SCALABILITY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; CONDUCTIVE COATINGS; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS; HIGH-SHEAR MIXING; LOCAL SHEAR RATES; SCALABLE PRODUCTION; SCALING BEHAVIOURS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84901252928     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3944     Document Type: Article

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