Experimentally engineering the edge termination of graphene nanoribbons

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 198-202

  Zhang, Xiaowei ^a,b   Yazyev, Oleg V ^a,b,c   Feng, Juanjuan ^a,d   Xie, Liming ^e   Tao, Chenggang ^a,b   Chen, Yen Chia ^a,b   Jiao, Liying ^e   Pedramrazi, Zahra ^a   Zettl, Alex ^a,b   Louie, Steven G ^a,b   Dai, Hongjie ^e   Crommie, Michael F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

first principles calculations; graphene nanoribbon; scanning tunneling microscopy; synthesis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL NATURE; EDGE STATE; EDGE TERMINATION; EDGE-ATOMS; ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; HYDROGEN ATOMS; HYDROGEN-PLASMA ETCHING; RE-HYBRIDIZATION; STRUCTURAL RECONSTRUCTION;

FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMA ETCHING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CALCULATIONS;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872863401     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303730v     Document Type: Article

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