A bottom-up approach for the synthesis of highly ordered fullerene-intercalated graphene hybrids

Frontiers in Materials

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kouloumpis, Antonios ^a   Spyrou, Konstantinos ^a,b   Dimos, Konstantinos ^a   Georgakilas, Vasilios ^c   Rudolf, Petra ^b   Gournis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fullerene; Graphene; Hybrids; Langmuir Blodgett; Thin films

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; FILM PREPARATION; FULLERENES; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; GRAPHENE; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THIN FILMS;

CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GAS/LIQUID SEPARATIONS; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; HYBRIDS; HYDROPHOBIC SUBSTRATE; LANGMUIRS;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 84949602481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22968016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmats.2015.00010     Document Type: Article

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