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Monodisperse N-Doped Graphene Nanoribbons Reaching 7.7 Nanometers in Length.

ABSTRACT: The properties of graphene nanoribbons are highly dependent on structural variables such as width, length, edge structure, and heteroatom doping. Therefore, atomic precision over all these variables is necessary for establishing their fundamental properties and exploring their potential applications. An iterative approach is presented that assembles a small and carefully designed molecular building block into monodisperse N-doped graphene nanoribbons with different lengths. To showcase this approach, the synthesis and characterisation of a series of nanoribbons constituted of 10, 20 and 30 conjugated linearly-fused rings (2.9, 5.3, and 7.7?nm in length, respectively) is presented.

SUBMITTER: Cortizo-Lacalle D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5768023 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Monodisperse N-Doped Graphene Nanoribbons Reaching 7.7 Nanometers in Length.

Cortizo-Lacalle Diego D Mora-Fuentes Juan P JP Strutyński Karol K Saeki Akinori A Melle-Franco Manuel M Mateo-Alonso Aurelio A

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20171218 3

The properties of graphene nanoribbons are highly dependent on structural variables such as width, length, edge structure, and heteroatom doping. Therefore, atomic precision over all these variables is necessary for establishing their fundamental properties and exploring their potential applications. An iterative approach is presented that assembles a small and carefully designed molecular building block into monodisperse N-doped graphene nanoribbons with different lengths. To showcase this appr ...[more]

PMID: 29193535

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