Optical properties of graphene nanoribbons encapsulated in single-walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 6346-6353

  Chernov, Alexander I ^a   Fedotov, Pavel V ^a   Talyzin, Alexandr V ^b   Suarez Lopez, Inma ^a   Anoshkin, Ilya V ^c   Nasibulin, Albert G ^c   Kauppinen, Esko I ^c   Obraztsova, Elena D ^a  

^a PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

coronene; graphene nanoribbons; one dimensional graphene structure; photoluminescence; single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

CORONENE; CORONENE MOLECULES; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS (GNRS); PHOTO-LUMINESCENCE EXCITATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS); VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE;

GRAPHENE; MOLECULES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOMAPPING; POLYMERIZATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

NANORIBBONS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE;

CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS TESTING; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

GRAPHITE; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84880809634     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4024152     Document Type: Article

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