Image Credit: Anucha Cheechang/Shutterstock.com. Introduction to the Formation of Graphene Nanoribbons. GNRs can be synthesized through top-down or bottom-up methods, each providing precise control ...

Scientists overcame a limitation in graphene to harness the material as a working semiconductor at terahertz frequencies with 10 times the mobility of silicon.

Li, L. et al. nanocomposite of polyaniline nanorods grown on graphene nanoribbons for highly capacitive pseudocapacitors. ACS Appl. Mat. Interfaces. 2013, 5, 6622–6627. Xiang, C. et al. Functionalized ...

An international multi-institution team of scientists has synthesized graphene nanoribbons -- ultrathin strips of carbon atoms -- on a titanium dioxide surface using an atomically precise method ...

Graphene nanoribbons are usually semiconductors, but the team has managed to turn them into metals, which makes them conductive and able to act like wires to carry electrons around a circuit.

Generally speaking, graphene nanoribbons today are synthesized on gold surfaces that act as a catalyst for their formation, but gold is expensive and a conductor of electricity, ...

Scientists are experimenting with narrow strips of graphene, called nanoribbons, in hopes of making cool new electronic devices, but University of California, Berkeley scientists have discovered ...

Posted: Nov 29, 2017: A transistor made of graphene nanoribbons (Nanowerk News) Transistors based on carbon nanostructures: what sounds like a futuristic dream could be reality in just a few years' ...

Posted: Mar 24, 2016: Graphene nanoribbons: it's all about the edges (Nanowerk News) As electronic components are becoming ever smaller, the industry is gradually approaching the limits of what is ...

On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edge topology, P Ruffieux, S Wang, B Yang, C Sanchez, J Liu, T Dienel, L Talirz, P Shinde, CA Pignedoli, D Passerone, T Dumslaff, ...

Graphene nanoribbons can now easily be grown in laboratories, which could herald a new generation of faster electronic devices. The ribbons are grown on a base of germanium, and the fine fibers ...