graphene nanoribbon
Tying down electrons with nanoribbons
Scientists are experimenting with narrow strips of graphene, called nanoribbons, in hopes of making cool new electronic devices, but University of California,…
Built from the bottom up, nanoribbons pave the way to 'on-off' states for graphene
“Confinement changes graphene's behavior,” said An-Ping Li, a physicist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Graphene in sheets is an…
Successful Boron-Doping of Graphene Nanoribbon
Graphene is one of the most promising materials for improving electronic devices. The two-dimensional carbon sheet exhibits high electron mobility and…
Successful graphene synthesis out of single molecules
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) working with Xinliang Feng and Klaus Müllen succeeded in producing remarkably long,…
Graphene nanoribbons for 'reading' DNA
If we wanted to count the number of people in a crowd, we could make on the fly estimates, very likely to be imprecise, or we could ask each person to pass…
Rice University mix of graphene nanoribbons, polymer has potential for cars, soda, beer
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has enhanced a polymer material to make it far more impermeable to pressurized gas and far lighter than the metal in tanks…