Synthetic routes contaminate graphene materials with a whole spectrum of unanticipated metallic elements

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 13774-13779

  An Wong, Colin Hong ^a   Sofer, Zdeněk ^b   Kubešová, Marie ^c   Kučera, Jan ^c   Matějková, Stanislava ^d   Pumera, Martin ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b Institute of Chemical Technology ^*  (United States)

^c NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 84907289312     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413389111     Document Type: Article

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