Spectroscopic investigation of the wettability of multilayer graphene using highly ordered pyrolytic graphite as a model material

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 12827-12836

  Ashraf, Ali ^a   Wu, Yanbin ^a   Wang, Michael C ^a   Aluru, Narayana R ^a   Dastgheib, Seyed A ^b   Nam, Sung Woo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHLY ORDERED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITES; MODEL MATERIALS; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS;

EID: 84908583993     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la503089k     Document Type: Article

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