Value-added Synthesis of Graphene: Recycling Industrial Carbon Waste into Electrodes for High-Performance Electronic Devices

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Seo, Hong Kyu ^a   Kim, Tae Sik ^a   Park, Chibeom ^a,b   Xu, Wentao ^a   Baek, Kangkyun ^a,b   Bae, Sang Hoon ^c   Ahn, Jong Hyun ^c   Kim, Kimoon ^a,b   Choi, Hee Cheul ^a,b   Lee, Tae Woo ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL TAR; GRAPHITE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NAPHTHACENE DERIVATIVE; NICKEL; PENTACENE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; RECYCLING; SYNTHESIS; TRANSISTOR;

COAL TAR; ELECTRODES; GRAPHITE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NAPHTHACENES; NICKEL; RECYCLING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 84947278650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16710     Document Type: Article

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