On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edge topology

Nature

Volumn 531, Issue 7595, 2016, Pages 489-492

  Ruffieux, Pascal ^a   Wang, Shiyong ^a   Yang, Bo ^b   Sanchez Sanchez, Carlos ^a   Liu, Jia ^a   Dienel, Thomas ^a   Talirz, Leopold ^a   Shinde, Prashant ^a   Pignedoli, Carlo A ^a   Passerone, Daniele ^a   Dumslaff, Tim ^b   Feng, Xinliang ^c   Müllen, Klaus ^b   Fasel, Roman ^a,d  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CENTER FOR ADVANCING ELECTRONICS DRESDEN CFAED   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE NANORIBBON; MONOMER; NANORIBBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON; CHEMICAL PROCESS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; NANOPARTICLE; PHYSICS; POLYMERIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEHYDROGENATION; ENERGY; FILTRATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84961635327     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17151     Document Type: Article

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