Synthesis of structurally well-defined and liquid-phase-processable graphene nanoribbons

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 126-132

  Narita, Akimitsu ^a   Feng, Xinliang ^a   Hernandez, Yenny ^a   Jensen, Søren A ^a,b   Bonn, Mischa ^a   Yang, Huafeng ^c   Verzhbitskiy, Ivan A ^d   Casiraghi, Cinzia ^c,d   Hansen, Michael Ryan ^a,e   Koch, Amelie H R ^a   Fytas, George ^a,f   Ivasenko, Oleksandr ^g   Li, Bing ^g   Mali, Kunal S ^g   Balandina, Tatyana ^g   Mahesh, Sankarapillai ^g   De Feyter, Steven ^g   Müllen, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; CYCLOADDITION; ELECTRON; POLYMERIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CYCLOADDITION REACTION; ELECTRONS; GRAPHITE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84893005111     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1819     Document Type: Article

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