The beginning of this project dates back to 2012-2013, when team leader Ayrat Dimiev was working at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, with Professor James Tour. Together with Natnael Behabtu, at that ...

Graphene, a two-dimensional lattice of carbon atoms, has attracted enormous interest from a broad base of the research community for more than one decade. Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), narrow strips of ...

IT is well known that potassium atoms lodge themselves between the basal planes of the graphite lattice to produce intercalation compounds in many different forms of graphite 1. Glassy carbon is a ...

Researchers from Rice University's Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, in partnership with Baylor University and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research ...

THE ability of graphite to form lamellar compounds by occluding certain other substances (fluorine, boron, oxygen, potassium, rubidium, caesium and ferric chloride) between its layer planes has been ...

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Editor's Note: This article was updated on 11 September 2005 to give a more complete account of previous work on CaC 6 than the version that was published on 30 August 2005. Bulk quantities of a new ...