Nanoribbons

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According to absorption spectroscopy, these nanoribbons were composed of 3R-M0S2. The E/C synthesis of M0S2 wires and ribbons was size selective control over the wire or ribbon size was provided by control of the MoO , nanowire dimensions, which in turn were controlled using the electrodeposition potential and time in the first step of the synthesis. 

She G, Zhang X, Shi W, Cai Y, Wang N, Liu P, Chen D (2008) Template-free electrochemical synthesis of single-crystal CuTe nanoribbons. Cryst Growth Des 8 1789-1791... 

Li Q, Walter EC, van der Veer WE, Murray BJ, Newberg IT, Bohannan EW, Switzer lA, Hemminger JC, Penner RM (2005) Molybdenum disulfide nanowires and nanoribbons by electrochemical/chemical synthesis. J Phys Chem B 109 3169-3182... 

Wen XG, Zhang WX, Yang SH (2002) Solution phase synthesis of Cu(OH)2 nanoribbons by coordination self-assembly using Cu2S nanowires as precursors. Nano Lett 2(12) 1397—1401... 

Li X, Wang X, Shang L, Lee S, Dai H (2008) Chemical derived, ultrasmooth graphene nanoribbon semiconductors. Science 319 1229... 

Dayen JF, Mahmood A, Golubev DS, Roch-Jeune I, Salles P, Dujardin E (2008) Side-gated transport in focused-ion-beam-fabricated multilayered graphene nanoribbons. Small 4 716... 

Ko, H. C. Baca, A. J. Rogers, J. A. 2006. Bulk quantities of single-crystal silicon micro-/nanoribbons generated from bulk wafers. Nano Lett. 6 2318-2324. 

Duan, X. Niu, C. Sahi, V. Chen, J. Parce, J. W. Empedocles, S. Goldman, J. L. 2003. High-performance thin-film transistors using semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons. Nature 425 274-278. 

Sun, Y. Choi, W.-M. Jiang, H. Huang, Y. Y. Rogers, J. A. 2006. Controlled buckling of semiconductor nanoribbons for stretchable electronics. Nature Nano-technol. 1 201-207. 

Fig. 14.6). A key is that in many cases solution processing can lead to new structures that are difficult or impossible to attain by other means. This can include, for example, nanofiber arrays, core-shell structures, nanopods, and nanoribbons.30 32 These structures can lead to a variety of new functionalities—from 3D prototyping, to third-generation PV structures, to electronic paper, to a new class of non linear optics, to the ability to order nanostructures at very small length scales and maybe even to the holy grail of the energy field, artificial photosynthesis. Below we briefly discuss how some of these concepts are beginning to be realized.

Jie, J. S. Zhang, W. J. Jiang, Y. Lee, S. T. 2006. Single-crystal CdSe nanoribbon field-effect transistors and photoelectric applications. Appl. Phys. Lett. 89 133118. 

The field of carbon nanostructure research is vast and novel, and it experienced a major breakthrough after the discovery of fullerenes in 1985 [1], and their subsequent bulk synthesis in 1990 [2]. This event opened the minds of various scientists towards discovering novel carbon allotropes. Promptly, yet another allotrop of carbon was observed by Iijima [3], although it had previously been produced by M. Endo et al. in the 1970s by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) [4]. The most recent important advance in the quest for novel forms of carbon constitutes the isolation of graphene layers [5], which exhibit unique and exceptional electrical properties [6]. In addition, graphene nanoribbons have recently been synthesized and produced using diverse methods [7]. 

Fig. 4.1 Molecular models of (a) graphene, (b) graphene oxide and (c) graphene nanoribbon.

Fig. 4.5 (a) HRTEM, (b) simulated and (c) models of a folded edge of graphene, observed perpendicular to the plane [86] (d) and (e) HRTEM images (scale bar is 5 nm) and (f) models of loop edges created in graphitic nanoribbons heat treated at different temperatures [88]. 

M. Terrones, A. R. Botello-Mendez, J. Campos-Delgado, F. Lopez-Urfas, Y. I. Vega-Cantu, F. J. Rodrfguez-Macias, A. L. Elias, E. Munoz-Sandoval, A. G. Cano-Marquez, J.-C. Charlier, FI. Terrones, Graphene and graphite nanoribbons Morphology, properties, synthesis, defects and applications., Nano Today, vol. 5, pp. 351-372, 2010. 

A. Chuvilin, E. Bichoutskaia, M. C. Gimenez-Lopez, T. W. Chamberlain, G. A. Ranee, N. Kuganathan, J. Biskupek, U. Kaiser, A. N. Khlobystov, Self-assembly of a sulphur-terminated graphene nanoribbon within a single-walled carbon nanotube, Nature Mater., vol. 10, p. 687-692, 2011. 

J. Campos-Delgado, Y.A. Kim, T. Hayashi, A. Morelos-Gomez, M. Hofmann, H. Muramatsu, M. Endo, H. Terrones, R.D. Shull, M.S. Dresselhaus, M. Terrones, Thermal stability studies of CVD-grown graphene nanoribbons Defect annealing and loop formation, Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 469, pp. 177-182, 2009. 

S. M. Dubois, A. Lopez-Bezanilla, A. Cresti, F. Triozon, B. Biel, J.-C. Charlier, S. Roche, Quantum transport in graphene nanoribbons Effects of edge reconstruction and chemical reactivity, ACS Nano, vol. 4, pp. 1971-1976, 2010. 

J. W. Kang, H. J. Hwang, K. S. Kim, Molecular dynamics study on vibrational properties of graphene nanoribbon resonator under tensile loading., Computational Materials Science, vol. 65, pp. 216-220, 2012. 

S. K. Georgantzinos, G. I. Giannopoulos, D. E. Katsareas, P. A. Kakavas, N. K. Anifantis, Size-dependent non-linear mechanical properties of graphene nanoribbons., Computational Materials Science, vol. 50, pp. 2057-2062, 2011. 

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