Determination of quantitative structure-property and structure-process relationships for graphene production in water

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1865-1881

  Nacken, Thomas J ^a   Damm, Cornelia ^a   Xing, Haichen ^a   Rüger, Andreas ^a   Peukert, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

few layer graphene; graphene; graphite delamination; process parameters; statistical Raman spectroscopy; stirred media mill

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937519569     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0694-6     Document Type: Article

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