Chemical sensing with switchable transport channels in graphene grain boundaries

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yasaei, Poya ^a   Kumar, Bijandra ^a   Hantehzadeh, Reza ^a   Kayyalha, Morteza ^b   Baskin, Artem ^c   Repnin, Nikita ^c   Wang, Canhui ^c   Klie, Robert F ^c   Chen, Yong P ^b   Král, Petr ^c   Salehi Khojin, Amin ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; GRAPHENE; METHYLPHOSPHONIC ACID;

CARBON; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DESIGN; GRAIN BOUNDARY;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GAS; MOLECULE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84923307589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5911     Document Type: Article

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