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. 2012 Mar 27;109(15):5588-5593. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1116897109

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1.

(A) Pristine graphite; (B) dry ice (solid phase CO2); (C) edge-carboxylated graphite (ECG) prepared by ball milling for 48 h; (D) a schematic representation of physical cracking and edge-carboxylation of graphite by ball milling in the presence of dry ice, and protonation through subsequent exposure to air moisture. Detailed proposed mechanism is presented in Fig. S2.