Nanoribbons from sliced open nanotubes: New, faster, more accurate method from Stanford

Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 08:35 in Physics & Chemistry

A world of potential may lie tied up in graphene nanoribbons, particularly for electronics applications. But researchers have been hampered in their efforts to fully explore that potential because they had no reliable way of creating the large quantities of uniform nanoribbons needed to conduct extensive studies. Now a team at Stanford University under Hongjie Dai has developed a new method that will allow relatively precise production of mass quantities of the tiny ribbons by slicing open carbon nanotubes...

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