Crown ethers in graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Guo, Junjie ^a,b,d   Lee, Jaekwang ^a,c   Contescu, Cristian I ^a   Gallego, Nidia C ^a   Pantelides, Sokrates T ^a,c   Pennycook, Stephen J ^a,b   Moyer, Bruce A ^a   Chisholm, Matthew F ^a,b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROWN ETHER; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; METAL ION;

CARBON; CATION; ETHER; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; OXIDATION;

EID: 84924936445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6389     Document Type: Article

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