Tandem intercalation strategy for single-layer nanosheets as an effective alternative to conventional exfoliation processes

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jeong, Sohee ^a   Yoo, Dongwon ^a   Ahn, Minji ^a   Miro, Pere ^b   Heine, Thomas ^b   Cheon, Jinwoo ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC AMINE; CHALCOGEN; LEWIS BASE; MOLYBDENUM; NANOMATERIAL; NANOSHEET; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE; TRANSITION ELEMENT; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE; VANADIUM DERIVATIVE; ZIRCONIUM DERIVATIVE;

COLLOID; NANOPARTICLE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSITION ELEMENT; ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FORCE; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; MOLECULAR SIZE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84990931056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6763     Document Type: Article

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