Counter-ion dependent, longitudinal unzipping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes to highly conductive and transparent graphene nanoribbons

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Shinde, Dhanraj B ^a,b   Majumder, Mainak ^b   Pillai, Vijayamohanan K ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CENTRAL ELECTROCHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE; HYDROXIDE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; POTASSIUM NITRATE; POTASSIUM SULFATE; SULFATE; SULFURIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS TESTING;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; HYDROXIDES; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NITRATES; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFATES; SULFURIC ACIDS;

EID: 84906272785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04363     Document Type: Article

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