Ultrastrong Freestanding Graphene Oxide Nanomembranes with Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Functionality by Solvent-Assisted Single-Component Layer-by-Layer Assembly

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 6702-6715

  Xiong, Rui ^a,b   Hu, Kesong ^b   Zhang, Shuaidi ^b   Lu, Canhui ^a   Tsukruk, Vladimir V ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

flexible nanomembranes; layer by layer assembly; mechanical performance; reduced graphene oxide; surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ELASTIC MODULI; GRAPHENE; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PRECIOUS METALS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILVER;

LAYER-BY-LAYER ASSEMBLIES; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; NANOMEMBRANES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

SURFACE SCATTERING;

EID: 84979950590     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b02012     Document Type: Article

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