Controllable seeding of single crystal graphene islands from graphene oxide flakes

Carbon

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 406-412

  Li, Qiongyu ^a   Zhang, Cankun ^a   Lin, Weiyi ^a   Huang, Zhiyi ^a   Zhang, Lili ^b   Li, Hongyang ^a   Chen, Xiangping ^a   Cai, Weiwei ^a   Ruoff, Rodney S ^c,d   Chen, Shanshan ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ISOTOPES; METAL CLADDING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); GRAPHENE OXIDES; LATERAL GROWTH; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84920580320     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.07.083     Document Type: Article

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