Stacking sequence and interlayer coupling in few-layer graphene revealed by in situ imaging

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wang, Zhu Jun ^a   Dong, Jichen ^b   Cui, Yi ^c   Eres, Gyula ^d   Timpe, Olaf ^a   Fu, Qiang ^e   Ding, Feng ^b   Schloegl, R ^a   Willinger, Marc Georg ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; PLATINUM;

CARBON; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGING METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STACKING; STRENGTH;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; INTERLAYER COUPLING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STACKING SEQUENCE; STRENGTH;

EID: 84992129586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13256     Document Type: Article

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