Thickness sorting of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides via copolymer-assisted density gradient ultracentrifugation

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kang, Joohoon ^a   Seo, Jung Woo T ^a   Alducin, Diego ^b   Ponce, Arturo ^b   Yacaman, Miguel Jose ^b   Hersam, Mark C ^a,c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; DICHALCOGENIDE; IODIXANOL; MOLYBDENUM; NANOSHEET; POLOXAMER; TRANSITION ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHALCOGEN; DISULFIDE; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHALCOGENS; DISULFIDES; MOLYBDENUM; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYMERS; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84928966218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6478     Document Type: Article

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