Highly Flexible and Conductive Printed Graphene for Wireless Wearable Communications Applications

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Huang, Xianjun ^a   Leng, Ting ^a   Zhu, Mengjian ^a   Zhang, Xiao ^a   Chen, Jiacing ^a   Chang, Kuohsin ^a   Aqeeli, Mohammed ^a   Geim, Andre K ^a   Novoselov, Kostya S ^a   Hu, Zhirun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; NANOCOMPOSITE;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; PAPER; POROSITY; PRINTING; PROCEDURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOCOMPOSITES; PAPER; POROSITY; PRINTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84950280536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18298     Document Type: Article

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