In-situ and tunable nitrogen-doping of MoS2 nanosheets

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Qin, Si ^a   Lei, Weiwei ^a   Liu, Dan ^a   Chen, Ying ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84933541299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07582     Document Type: Article

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