Conductive resilient graphene aerogel via magnesiothermic reduction of graphene oxide assemblies

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1710-1717

  Tang, Huang ^a   Gao, Peibo ^a   Bao, Zhihao ^a   Zhou, Bin ^a   Shen, Jun ^a   Mei, Yongfeng ^b   Wu, Guangming ^a  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

conductivity; graphene aerogel; magnesiothermic reduction; mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939981853     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0672-z     Document Type: Article

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