A Review on Fabrication Methods of High-Quality Graphene Nanoribbons

Abstract:

Three different fabrication methods of graphene nanoribbons are discussed. Graphene nanoribbons can be produced through unzipping the carbon nanotubes and also cutting graphene sheets, but with rough edges. Another method is a simple, surface-based bottom-up chemical method without the need for cutting, resulting in high-quality graphene ribbons. The band gap of a graphene ribbon strongly depends on its geometry, particularly its width. The third method creates easily graphene ribbons with different width.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 148-149)
• Pages: 1737-1740
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.148-149.1737
• Online since: October 2010
• Authors: Hui Liang Zhang, Chun Yuan Zhang, Ding Ding Shi
• Keywords: Carbon Nanotube (CN), Fabrication Method, Graphene Nanoribbons, Heterojunction, Nanoelectronics

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