Direct electrochemical synthesis of reduced graphene oxide (rGO)/copper composite films and their electrical/electroactive properties

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7444-7455

  Xie, Guoxin ^a,b   Forslund, Mattias ^a   Pan, Jinshan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

electrical contact material; electrical electroactive properties; electrochemical synthesis; rGO Cu composite film

Indexed keywords

COPPER; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GRAPHENE; METAL CLADDING; METALLIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CONFOCAL RAMAN MICROSCOPY; ELECTRICAL CONTACT MATERIAL; ELECTRICAL/ELECTROACTIVE PROPERTIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL CODEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; KELVIN PROBE FORCE MICROSCOPY; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84901675805     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500768g     Document Type: Article

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