Aqueous proton transfer across single-layer graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Achtyl, Jennifer L ^a   Unocic, Raymond R ^b   Xu, Lijun ^c   Cai, Yu ^c   Raju, Muralikrishna ^e   Zhang, Weiwei ^f   Sacci, Robert L ^b   Vlassiouk, Ivan V ^b   Fulvio, Pasquale F ^b,g   Ganesh, Panchapakesan ^b   Wesolowski, David J ^b   Dai, Sheng ^b   Van Duin, Adri C T ^f   Neurock, Matthew ^c,d   Geiger, Franz M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d University of Minnesota   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; HELIUM; HYDROGEN; HYDROXYL GROUP; PROTON;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CARBON; DEFECT; DIFFUSION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; ION EXCHANGE; SILICA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ENERGY; ENERGY COST; LASER; PH; PROTON TRANSPORT; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84924940118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7539     Document Type: Article

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