Cheap, Gram-Scale Fabrication of BN Nanosheets via Substitution Reaction of Graphite Powders and Their Use for Mechanical Reinforcement of Polymers

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Fei ^a,b   Mo, Xiaoshu ^a   Gan, Haibo ^a   Guo, Tongyi ^a   Wang, Xuebin ^b   Chen, Bin ^b   Chen, Jun ^a   Deng, Shaozhi ^a   Xu, Ningsheng ^a   Sekiguchi, Takashi ^b   Golberg, Dmitri ^b   Bando, Yoshio ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 84907639028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04211     Document Type: Article

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