Imaging the reactivity and width of graphene's boundary region
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 1885
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1039/d0cc02675a
- Title of journal
- Chemical Communications
- Article number
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- First page
- 9612
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 67
- ISSN
- 1359-7345
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/CC/D0CC02675A#!divAbstract
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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5
- Research group(s)
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A - Advanced Materials
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper solves the long-standing controversy as to whether graphene edges are more or less reactive than the basal plane of graphene by directly imaging graphene’s boundary region after a chemical reaction using non-linear surface spectroscopy (sum-frequency generation spectroscopy). This is state-of-the-art as previous papers on the same subject all used indirect methods to infer the reactivity, and came to different conclusions. This paper has led to the National Physical Laboratory and the laser manufacturer Ekspla providing letters of support for a follow-on proposal.
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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