Designed nitrogen doping of few-layer graphene functionalized by selective oxygenic groups

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Ying ^a   Xie, Bingqiao ^a   Ren, Yingtao ^a   Yu, Mengying ^a   Qu, Yang ^a   Xie, Ting ^c   Zhang, Yong ^b,c   Wu, Yucheng ^b,c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c KEY LABORATORY OF ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS AND DEVICES OF ANHUI PROVINCE   (China)

Author keywords

Few layer graphene; Hydrothermal; Nitrogen doping; Oxygenic functional groups

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NITROGEN; PHASE STRUCTURE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BONDING CONFIGURATIONS; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; HYDROTHERMAL; HYDROTHERMAL CONDITIONS; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE; NITROGEN-DOPING; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84917710521     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-646     Document Type: Article

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