A simple and practical route to prepare useable pristine graphene for electrochemical applications

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 262, Issue , 2015, Pages 658-664

  Du, Wencheng ^a   Qi, Shaopeng ^a   Zhu, Yinyan ^a   Sun, Peipei ^a   Zhu, Lihua ^b   Jiang, Xiaoqing ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrochemistry; Graphite exfoliation; Pristine graphene; Transparent conducting film

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROOXIDATION; EXFOLIATION (MATERIALS SCIENCE); SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

CONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATES; ELECTROCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS; GRAPHENE DISPERSIONS; GRAPHITE EXFOLIATION; NITROGEN ATMOSPHERES; PALLADIUM NANOPARTICLES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING FILMS; TRANSPARENT GRAPHENE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84910078640     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.10.022     Document Type: Article

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