Light-enhanced liquid-phase exfoliation and current photoswitching in graphene-azobenzene composites

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Döbbelin, Markus ^a   Ciesielski, Artur ^a   Haar, Sébastien ^a   Osella, Silvio ^b   Bruna, Matteo ^c   Minoia, Andrea ^b   Grisanti, Luca ^b   Mosciatti, Thomas ^a   Richard, Fanny ^a   Prasetyanto, Eko Adi ^a   De Cola, Luisa ^a   Palermo, Vincenzo ^d   Mazzaro, Raffaello ^d,e   Morandi, Vittorio ^d   Lazzaroni, Roberto ^b   Ferrari, Andrea C ^c   Beljonne, David ^b   Samorì, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE; GRAPHENE; NANOCOMPOSITE;

CARBON; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DISPERSION; GRAPHITE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RESEARCH WORK;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOMERIZATION; LIQUID PHASE EXFOLIATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANS ISOMER; ULTRASOUND; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84963656386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11090     Document Type: Article

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