Enhancement of the Stability of Fluorine Atoms on Defective Graphene and at Graphene/Fluorographene Interface

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 19659-19665

  Ao, Zhimin ^a   Jiang, Quanguo ^b   Li, Shuang ^c   Liu, Hao ^a   Peeters, Francois M ^d   Li, Sean ^e   Wang, Guoxiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

density functional theory; diffusion; fluorination; graphene; thermal stability

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BINDING ENERGY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIFFUSION; FLUORINATION; FLUORINE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

ABSORBATES; DIFFUSION ENERGY BARRIERS; FLUORINE ATOMS; NANO-DEVICES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84941123012     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b04319     Document Type: Article

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