Water protects graphitic surface from airborne hydrocarbon contamination

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 349-359

  Li, Zhiting ^a   Kozbial, Andrew ^b   Nioradze, Nikoloz ^a   Parobek, David ^a   Shenoy, Ganesh Jagadeesh ^a   Salim, Muhammad ^a   Amemiya, Shigeru ^a   Li, Lei ^b   Liu, Haitao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleaning; Contamination; Cyclic voltammetry; Graphene; Graphite; Spectroscopy; Water adsorption

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CLEANING; CONTAMINATION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; HYDROCARBON REFINING; HYDROCARBONS; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER TREATMENT;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; GRAPHITIC MATERIALS; HYDROCARBON ADSORPTION; HYDROCARBON CONTAMINATION; SURFACE FROM; TREATMENT TECHNIQUES; WATER ADSORPTION; WETTING BEHAVIOR;

WETTING;

EID: 84989270896     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04843     Document Type: Article

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