Elemental superdoping of graphene and carbon nanotubes

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Liu, Yuan ^a   Shen, Yuting ^b   Sun, Litao ^b   Li, Jincheng ^c   Liu, Chang ^c   Ren, Wencai ^c   Li, Feng ^c   Gao, Libo ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Liu, Fuchi ^a   Sun, Yuanyuan ^a   Tang, Nujiang ^a   Cheng, Hui Ming ^c   Du, Youwei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; GRAPHENE; OXYGEN; QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

BORON; CARBON; FULLERENE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; OXYGEN; REDUCTION; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FLUORINATION; MAGNETISM; REDUCTION; STORAGE;

EID: 84960153190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10921     Document Type: Article

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