High-efficient production of boron nitride nanosheets via an optimized ball milling process for lubrication in oil

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Deepika, A ^a,b   Li, Lu Hua ^a   Glushenkov, Alexey M ^a,c   Hait, Samik K ^b   Hodgson, Peter ^a   Chen, Ying ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED   (India)

^c MELBOURNE CENTRE FOR NANOFABRICATION   (Australia)

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EID: 84923271653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07288     Document Type: Article

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