Breakdown into nanoscale of graphene oxide: Confined hot spot atomic reduction and fragmentation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gonçalves, Gil ^a,c   Vila, Mercedes ^a,c   Bdikin, Igor ^a,c   De Andrés, Alicia ^d   Emami, Nazanin ^e   Ferreira, Rute A S ^b,c   Carlos, Luís D ^b,c   Grácio, José ^a,c   Marques, Paula A A P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84930370960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06735     Document Type: Article

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