Geometric and electronic properties of edge-decorated graphene nanoribbons

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chang, Shen Lin ^a   Lin, Shih Yang ^a   Lin, Shih Kang ^a   Lee, Chi Hsuan ^b   Lin, Ming Fa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84906229075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06038     Document Type: Article

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