Multiple Heteroatom Substitution to Graphene Nanoribbon

Overview

Journal Sci Adv

Specialties Biology
Science

Date 2018 Apr 18

PMID 29662955

Citations 31

Authors

Shigeki Kawai

Soichiro Nakatsuka

Takuji Hatakeyama

Remy Pawlak

Tobias Meier

John Tracey

Ernst Meyer

Adam S Foster

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Abstract

Substituting heteroatoms into nanostructured graphene elements, such as graphene nanoribbons, offers the possibility for atomic engineering of electronic properties. To characterize these substitutions, functionalized atomic force microscopy (AFM)-a tool to directly resolve chemical structures-is one of the most promising tools, yet the chemical analysis of heteroatoms has been rarely performed. We synthesized multiple heteroatom-substituted graphene nanoribbons and showed that AFM can directly resolve elemental differences and can be correlated to the van der Waals radii, as well as the modulated local electron density caused by the substitution. This elemental-sensitive measurement takes an important step in the analysis of functionalized two-dimensional carbon materials.

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