Large-Scale, Highly Efficient, and Green Liquid-Exfoliation of Black Phosphorus in Ionic Liquids

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 50, 2015, Pages 27608-27612

  Zhao, Wancheng ^a   Xue, Zhimin ^b   Wang, Jinfang ^a   Jiang, Jingyun ^a   Zhao, Xinhui ^a   Mu, Tiancheng ^a  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

black phosphorus; high concentration; ionic liquids; liquid exfoliation; phosphorene

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; IONIC LIQUIDS; NANOSHEETS; PHOSPHORUS;

AMBIENT AIR; LIQUID EXFOLIATIONS; NANO-FLAKES; PHOSPHORENE;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84952684350     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10734     Document Type: Article

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