Measurement of the cleavage energy of graphite

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Wen ^a   Dai, Shuyang ^b   Li, Xide ^a   Yang, Jiarui ^a   Srolovitz, David J ^b   Zheng, Quanshui ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE;

CARBON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAPHITE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BOND; ENERGY; FORCE; FRICTION; HUMIDITY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84940552112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8853     Document Type: Article

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