Evidence of interfacial charge trapping mechanism in polyaniline/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Islam, Rakibul ^a,b   Papathanassiou, Anthony N ^c   Chan Yu King, Roch ^d   Brun, Jean François ^a,b   Roussel, Frederick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LILLE 1   (France)

^b COMUE Lille Nord de France ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRAPPING; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; PERMITTIVITY; POLYANILINE; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BROAD-BAND DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; DEBYE-LIKE RELAXATION; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOCOMPOSITES; INTERFACIAL CHARGE; POLYANILINES (PANI); RELAXATION MECHANISM;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84938510152     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4927591     Document Type: Article

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