Bottom-up graphene-nanoribbon fabrication reveals chiral edges and enantioselectivity

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 9181-9187

  Han, Patrick ^a,b   Akagi, Kazuto ^a   Federici Canova, Filippo ^a   Mutoh, Hirotaka ^a   Shiraki, Susumu ^a   Iwaya, Katsuya ^c   Weiss, Paul S ^a,b   Asao, Naoki ^a   Hitosugi, Taro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

bottom up fabrication; graphene nanoribbons; scanning tunneling microscopy; surface assisted molecular assembly

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SURFACE REACTIONS;

BOTTOM-UP FABRICATION; BOTTOM-UP STRATEGY; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; GROWTH DIRECTIONS; MOLECULAR ASSEMBLY; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES; SURFACE COVERAGES;

NANORIBBONS;

EID: 84924046947     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5028642     Document Type: Article

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