Crack-free growth and transfer of continuous monolayer graphene grown on melted copper

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 4984-4991

  Fan, Ye ^a   He, Kuang ^a   Tan, Haijie ^a   Speller, Susannah ^a   Warner, Jamie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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CRACK FREE;

EID: 84907965049     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm501911g     Document Type: Article

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