Controllable unzipping for intramolecular junctions of graphene nanoribbons and single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wei, Dacheng ^a   Xie, Lanfei ^a   Lee, Kian Keat ^a   Hu, Zhibin ^a   Tan, Shihua ^b   Chen, Wei ^a   Sow, Chorng Haur ^a   Chen, Keqiu ^b   Liu, Yunqi ^c   Wee, Andrew Thye Shen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE WALLED NANOTUBE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; NANORIBBON; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

CARBON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHIRALITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; SEMICONDUCTOR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84879056905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2366     Document Type: Article

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