AVS 61st International Symposium & Exhibition
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Solution-Synthesized Graphene Nanoribbons

Thursday, November 13, 2014, 11:40 am, Room 310

Session: Nanostructures including 2D Heterostructures, Patterning of 2D Materials 
Presenter: Alexander Sinitskii, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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In this talk I will discuss a recently developed bottom-up approach for gram quantities of narrow graphene nanoribbons that are less than 2 nm wide and have atomically precise armchair edges. These graphene nanoribbons have been characterized by a number of microscopic (STM, AFM, SEM, TEM) and spectroscopic (XPS, UPS/IPES, UV-vis-NIR, IR and Raman spectroscopy) techniques. The properties of graphene nanoribbons could be tuned by incorporation of nitrogen atoms in their edges. Narrow graphene nanoribbons have a large electronic bandgap, which makes them promising for applications in field-effect transistors with high on-off ratios, as well as bulk applications, including coatings, composites and photovoltaic devices.