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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 647849, 5 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/647849
Research Article

Colorful Polymer Compositions with Dyed Graphene Oxide Nanosheets

Y. M. Shulga,1 S. A. Baskakov,1 V. E. Muradyan,1 D. N. Voylov,1 V. A. Smirnov,1 A. Michtchenko,2 J. G. Cabañas-Moreno,2 K. G. Belay,3 C. A. Weatherford,3 and G. L. Gutsev3

1Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow 142432, Russia
2Instituto Politécnico Nacional, ESFM, UPALM, Avenida IPN, Edif. 9, 07738 Mexico City, DF, Mexico
3Department of Physics, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA

Received 23 November 2011; Accepted 26 December 2011

Academic Editors: L. Shah and A. Tervonen

Copyright © 2012 Y. M. Shulga et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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