News tagged with nanoribbons
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Graphene nanoribbons grow due to domino-like effect
(PhysOrg.com) -- While many labs are trying to efficiently synthesize large two-dimensional sheets of graphene, a team of researchers from Sweden and the UK is investigating the synthesis of very thin strips ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Electronic life on the edge: Scientists discover the edge states of graphene nanoribbons
(PhysOrg.com) -- As far back as the 1990s, long before anyone had actually isolated graphene – a honeycomb lattice of carbon just one atom thick – theorists were predicting extraordinary properties ...
May 08, 2011 |
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A Tiny Defect That May Create Smaller, Faster Electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- When most of us hear the word 'defect', we think of a problem that has to be solved. But a team of researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) created a new defect that just might ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 31, 2010 |
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Researchers control conduction, surface states in topological insulator nanoribbons
In recent years, topological insulators have become one of the hottest topics in physics. These new materials act as both insulators and conductors, with their interior preventing the flow of electrical currents while their ...
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Decorated with Electric Current, Nanoribbons Align with Expectations
(PhysOrg.com) -- A bizarre substance predicted to shrink electronics and give quantum physicists a new tabletop toy behaves pretty much as its designers expected.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 27, 2010 |
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New material synthesized: graphene nanoribbons inside of carbon nanotubes
Physicists from Umea University have found an efficient way to synthesize graphene nanoribbons directly inside of single-walled carbon nanotubes. The result was recently published in the scientific journal ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Rice researchers unzip the future
Scientists at Rice University have found a simple way to create basic elements for aircraft, flat-screen TVs, electronics and other products that incorporate sheets of tough, electrically conductive material.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Long and narrow, free of defects, and soluble: graphene nanoribbons by bottom-up synthesis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic components based on graphene could render our current silicon-based electronics obsolete. Graphene, a more recently discovered form of carbon, consists of two-dimensional sheets ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Nanoribbons for graphene transistors
In the recent issue of Nature, European scientists from Empa and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research report how they have managed for the first time to grow graphene ribbons that are just a few ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 21, 2010 |
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