Bulk Production of a New Form of sp2 Carbon: Crystalline Graphene Nanoribbons
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- 14 August 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Nano Letters
- Vol. 8 (9) , 2773-2778
- https://doi.org/10.1021/nl801316d
Abstract
We report the use of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for the bulk production (grams per day) of long, thin, and highly crystalline graphene ribbons (<20−30 μm in length) exhibiting widths of 20−300 nm and small thicknesses (2−40 layers). These layers usually exhibit perfect ABAB... stacking as in graphite crystals. The structure of the ribbons has been carefully characterized by several techniques and the electronic transport and gas adsorption properties have been measured. With this material available to researchers, it should be possible to develop new applications and physicochemical phenomena associated with layered graphene.Keywords
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