Zongping Chen, Wen Zhang, Carlos-Andres Palma, Alberto Lodi Rizzini, Bilu Liu, Ahmad Abbas, Nils Richter, Leonardo Martini, Xiao-Ye Wang, Nicola Cavani, Hao Lu, Neeraj Mishra, Camilla Coletti, Reinhard Berger, Florian Klappenberger, Mathias Kläui, Andrea Candini, Marco Affronte, Chongwu Zhou, Valentina De Renzi, Umberto Del Pennino, Johannes V Barth, Hans Joachim Räder, Akimitsu Narita, Xinliang Feng, Klaus Müllen
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), quasi-one-dimensional graphene strips, have shown great potential for nanoscale electronics, optoelectronics, and photonics. Atomically precise GNRs can be "bottom-up" synthesized by surface-assisted assembly of molecular building blocks under ultra-high-vacuum conditions. However, large-scale and efficient synthesis of such GNRs at low cost remains a significant challenge. Here we report an efficient "bottom-up" chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process for inexpensive and high-throughput growth of structurally defined GNRs with varying structures under ambient-pressure conditions...
November 30, 2016: Journal of the American Chemical Society