Longitudinal unzipping of carbon nanotubes to form graphene nanoribbons

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7240, 2009, Pages 872-876

  Kosynkin, Dmitry V ^a   Higginbotham, Amanda L ^a   Sinitskii, Alexander ^a   Lomeda, Jay R ^a   Dimiev, Ayrat ^a   Price, B Katherine ^a   Tour, James M ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANORIBBON; WATER;

CRYSTALLINITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SOLUBILITY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; IMAGING; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 65249185111     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07872     Document Type: Article

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