Novel approach to fabricating artificial graphene nanoribbons with embedded pentagon carbon
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have attracted much attention due to their unique electronic structures with high tunability of physical structures.
In physics, 1-dimensional systems are idealized physical models constrained to a single spatial dimension, where all relevant degrees of freedom vary along one coordinate while transverse dimensions are neglected or treated as frozen. Such systems are fundamental in statistical mechanics, condensed matter, and field theory, enabling exact or quasi-exact treatments of phenomena like phase transitions, transport, and quantum correlations. They exhibit distinctive behavior, including enhanced fluctuations, restricted ordering, and nontrivial topological or conformal structures, and are often described by specialized frameworks such as Luttinger liquid theory, integrable spin chains, or exactly solvable lattice and continuum models.
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have attracted much attention due to their unique electronic structures with high tunability of physical structures.
Nanomaterials
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Single photons have applications in quantum computation, information networks, and sensors, and these can be emitted by defects in the atomically thin insulator hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Missing nitrogen atoms have been ...
Nanophysics
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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are considered ideal electrochemical energy storage materials due to their high electrical conductivity, large theoretical surface area, and good chemical stability.
Nanophysics
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Researchers at Tohoku University and Tsinghua University have introduced a next-generation model membrane electrode that promises to revolutionize fundamental electrochemical research. This innovative electrode, fabricated ...
Nanomaterials
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Quantum advances rely on the production of nanoscale wires that are based on several state-of-the-art nanolithographic technologies, to develop wires via bottom-up synthesis. However, a critical challenge is to grow uniform ...
Sometimes to make big breakthroughs, you have to start very small.
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Electrostatic doping has been widely used in low-dimensional materials, including carbon nanotube (CNT) and two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Unlike conventional ...
Nanophysics
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When it comes to studying particles in motion, experimentalists have followed a 100-year-old theory that claims the microscopic motion of a particle is determined by random collisions with molecules of the surrounding medium, ...
Nanophysics
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully threaded atoms of indium metal in between individual fibers in bundles of transition metal chalcogenide nanofibers. By steeping the bundles in indium gas, rows ...
Nanophysics
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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are cylindrical tube-like structures made of carbon atoms that display highly desirable physical properties like high strength, low weight, and excellent thermal and electrical conductivities. This ...
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