Simultaneous visualization of graphene grain boundaries and wrinkles with structural information by gold deposition

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 8662-8668

  Yu, Seong Uk ^a,b   Park, Beomjin ^b   Cho, Yeonchoo ^b   Hyun, Seung ^b   Kim, Jin Kon ^b   Kim, Kwang S ^a  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

adhesion property; folded wrinkle; gold nanoparticle; graphene grain boundary; overlapped grain boundary; standing collapsed wrinkle; stitched grain boundary

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; DEPOSITION; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; VISUALIZATION;

ADHESION PROPERTIES; FOLDED WRINKLE; GOLD DEPOSITION; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; STANDING COLLAPSED WRINKLE; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84906678382     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503550d     Document Type: Article

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