*Correspondence: Dimitrios Gournis, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece e-mail: [email protected] Much of the research effort on graphene focuses on its use as a building block for the development of new hybrid nanostructures with well-defined dimensions and properties suitable for applications such as gas storage, heterogeneous cataly...

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