Incorporation of well-dispersed sub-5-nm graphitic pencil nanodots into ordered mesoporous frameworks

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 171-177

  Kong, Biao ^a,b   Tang, Jing ^a   Zhang, Yueyu ^a,c   Jiang, Tao ^a,c   Gong, Xingao ^a,c   Peng, Chengxin ^d   Wei, Jing ^a   Yang, Jianping ^a   Wang, Yongcheng ^a   Wang, Xianbiao ^b   Zheng, Gengfeng ^a   Selomulya, Cordelia ^b   Zhao, Dongyuan ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology of Microstructures   (China)

^d National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

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EID: 84955500926     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2405     Document Type: Article

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