Chemically Derived, Ultrasmooth Graphene Nanoribbon Semiconductors Export

@article{citeulike:2933350, abstract = {We developed a chemical route to produce graphene nanoribbons (GNR) with width below 10 nanometers, as well as single ribbons with varying widths along their lengths or containing lattice-defined graphene junctions for potential molecular electronics. The GNRs were solution-phase-derived, stably suspended in solvents with noncovalent polymer functionalization, and exhibited ultrasmooth edges with possibly well-defined zigzag or armchair-edge structures. Electrical transport experiments showed that, unlike single-walled carbon nanotubes, all of the sub-10-nanometer GNRs produced were semiconductors and afforded graphene field effect transistors with on-off ratios of about 107 at room temperature. 10.1126/science.1150878}, author = {Li, Xiaolin and Wang, Xinran and Zhang, Li and Lee, Sangwon and Dai, Hongjie}, citeulike-article-id = {2933350}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1150878}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5867/1229}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18218865}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18218865}, day = {29}, doi = {10.1126/science.1150878}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {experiment, graphene, graphene-nanoribbon, science}, month = {February}, number = {5867}, pages = {1229--1232}, posted-at = {2008-08-21 22:47:42}, priority = {2}, title = {Chemically Derived, Ultrasmooth Graphene Nanoribbon Semiconductors}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1150878}, volume = {319}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2933350 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2933350 N2 - We developed a chemical route to produce graphene nanoribbons (GNR) with width below 10 nanometers, as well as single ribbons with varying widths along their lengths or containing lattice-defined graphene junctions for potential molecular electronics. The GNRs were solution-phase-derived, stably suspended in solvents with noncovalent polymer functionalization, and exhibited ultrasmooth edges with possibly well-defined zigzag or armchair-edge structures. Electrical transport experiments showed that, unlike single-walled carbon nanotubes, all of the sub-10-nanometer GNRs produced were semiconductors and afforded graphene field effect transistors with on-off ratios of about 107 at room temperature. 10.1126/science.1150878 IS - 5867 JF - Science EP - 1232 TI - Chemically Derived, Ultrasmooth Graphene Nanoribbon Semiconductors VL - 319 SP - 1229 KW - experiment KW - graphene KW - graphene-nanoribbon KW - science AU - Li, Xiaolin AU - Wang, Xinran AU - Zhang, Li AU - Lee, Sangwon AU - Dai, Hongjie PY - 2008/02/29/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1150878 ER -