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Journal of Nanotechnology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 328565, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/328565
Research Article

Uniform Decoration of Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheets with Gold Nanoparticles

Huanping Yang,1 Weiwei Zhou,1 Bo Yu,1 Yingying Wang,1 Chunxiao Cong,1 and Ting Yu1,2

1Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore
2Department of physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 117542, Singapore

Received 11 July 2011; Revised 8 December 2011; Accepted 23 December 2011

Academic Editor: Renu Pasricha

Copyright © 2012 Huanping Yang 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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