Rationally designed surfactants for few-layered graphene exfoliation: Ionic groups attached to electron-deficient π-conjugated unit through alkyl spacers

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 6663-6670

  Zhang, Lu ^a   Zhang, Zijian ^a,d   He, Chaozheng ^b   Dai, Liming ^c   Liu, Jun ^a   Wang, Lixiang ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b NANYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

dispersion; graphene; naphthalene diimide; surfactant; ultrasonic exfoliation

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; MOLECULES; NAPHTHALENE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CONJUGATED UNITS; ELECTRON-DEFICIENT; GRAPHENE DISPERSIONS; HIGH THROUGHPUT; MASS PRODUCTION; MOLECULAR DESIGN; NAPHTHALENE DIIMIDE; SURFACTANT MOLECULES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84904732843     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502289w     Document Type: Article

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