Quantitative evaluation of delamination of graphite by wet media milling

Carbon

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 284-294

  Damm, Cornelia ^a   Nacken, Thomas J ^a   Peukert, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; N-METHYLPYRROLIDONE; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PRODUCTION RATES; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; STIRRED MEDIA MILL; WET-MEDIA MILLINGS;

DELAMINATION;

EID: 84922720444     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.09.059     Document Type: Article

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