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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Commun. 2013;4:2213. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3213

Figure 5. Solvent size effect on the stability of exfoliation.

Figure 5

(a) Large solvent molecules preventing graphene–graphene Leonard-Jones potential interaction to stabilize the inter-layer separation and exfoliation. (b) Small solvent molecules are expelled due to overlapping Leonard-Jones potential between neighbouring layers.