Proton transport through one-atom-thick crystals

Nature

Volumn 516, Issue 7530, 2014, Pages 227-230

  Hu, S ^a   Lozada Hidalgo, M ^a   Wang, F C ^b   Mishchenko, A ^a   Schedin, F ^a   Nair, R R ^a   Hill, E W ^a   Boukhvalov, D W ^c   Katsnelson, M I ^c   Dryfe, R A W ^a   Grigorieva, I V ^a   Wu, H A ^b   Geim, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON DERIVATIVE; BORON NITRIDE; GRAPHENE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; MOLYBDENUM COMPLEX; MOLYBDENUM DISULPHIDE; PROTON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; CONDUCTIVITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; KINETIC ENERGY; MEMBRANE; PERMEABILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84922890396     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14015     Document Type: Article

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