Narrow graphene nanoribbons from carbon nanotubes

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7240, 2009, Pages 877-880

  Jiao, Liying ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Wang, Xinran ^a   Diankov, Georgi ^a   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHENE; NANORIBBON; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYMER;

CARBON; ETCHING; POLYMER; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 65249133533     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07919     Document Type: Article

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