Liquid exfoliation of solvent-stabilized few-layer black phosphorus for applications beyond electronics

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hanlon, Damien ^a   Backes, Claudia ^a   Doherty, Evie ^a   Cucinotta, Clotilde S ^a   Berner, Nina C ^a   Boland, Conor ^a   Lee, Kangho ^a   Harvey, Andrew ^a   Lynch, Peter ^a   Gholamvand, Zahra ^a   Zhang, Saifeng ^b   Wang, Kangpeng ^a,b   Moynihan, Glenn ^a   Pokle, Anuj ^a   Ramasse, Quentin M ^c   McEvoy, Niall ^a   Blau, Werner J ^a   Wang, Jun ^b   Abellan, Gonzalo ^d   Hauke, Frank ^d   Hirsch, Andreas ^d   Sanvito, Stefano ^a   O'Regan, David D ^a   Duesberg, Georg S ^a   Nicolosi, Valeria ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a   more..

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^c SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; LUMINESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUND; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SENSOR; SOLVENT;

CHANDIPURA VIRUS;

EID: 84944345460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9563     Document Type: Article

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