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Cover Picture: Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Unzipping of Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes into Narrow Graphene Nanoribbons at Low Temperature (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 35/2011)
Author(s) -
Wang Jinlan,
Ma Liang,
Yuan Qinghong,
Zhu Liyan,
Ding Feng
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201104525
Subject(s) - graphene , graphene nanoribbons , carbon nanotube , nanotechnology , materials science , silicon , transition metal , catalysis , optoelectronics , chemistry , organic chemistry
Narrow, smooth‐edged graphene nanoribbons are needed for graphene electronics to replace the current silicon technology. In their Communication on page 8041 ff. , J. Wang, F. Ding, et al. report a smart strategy for cutting single‐walled carbon nanotubes (gray) into narrow graphene nanoribbons in H 2 gas (green) with a single transition‐metal atom (Cu, red) as the chemical scissors.