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Title: Raman Fingerprints of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons

Abstract

Bottom-up approaches allow the production of ultranarrow and atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with electronic and optical properties controlled by the specific atomic structure. Combining Raman spectroscopy and ab initio simulations, we show that GNR width, edge geometry, and functional groups all influence their Raman spectra. As a result, the low-energy spectral region below 1000 cm–1 is particularly sensitive to edge morphology and functionalization, while the D peak dispersion can be used to uniquely fingerprint the presence of GNRs and differentiates them from other sp2 carbon nanostructures.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [3];  [4];  [6];  [7]
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  1. Physics Department, Free University of Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
  2. Department of Physics, Mathematics, and Informatics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41121 Modena, Italy, Nanoscience Institute of CNR, S3 Center, 41125 Modena, Italy
  3. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
  4. Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 OFA, United Kingdom
  5. Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) and Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universitaet Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
  6. Physics Department, Free University of Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
  7. Nanoscience Institute of CNR, S3 Center, 41125 Modena, Italy
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Nanoscience Inst. of CNR, Modena (Italy); Univ. of Manchester (United Kingdom)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1253054
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1345020
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Nano Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Nano Letters Journal Volume: 16 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; graphene; nanoribbons; Raman spectroscopy

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Verzhbitskiy, Ivan A., Corato, Marzio De, Ruini, Alice, Molinari, Elisa, Narita, Akimitsu, Hu, Yunbin, Schwab, Matthias G., Bruna, Matteo, Yoon, Duhee, Milana, Silvia, Feng, Xinliang, Müllen, Klaus, Ferrari, Andrea C., Casiraghi, Cinzia, and Prezzi, Deborah. Raman Fingerprints of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04183.
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Verzhbitskiy, Ivan A., Corato, Marzio De, Ruini, Alice, Molinari, Elisa, Narita, Akimitsu, Hu, Yunbin, Schwab, Matthias G., Bruna, Matteo, Yoon, Duhee, Milana, Silvia, Feng, Xinliang, Müllen, Klaus, Ferrari, Andrea C., Casiraghi, Cinzia, & Prezzi, Deborah. Raman Fingerprints of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04183
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Verzhbitskiy, Ivan A., Corato, Marzio De, Ruini, Alice, Molinari, Elisa, Narita, Akimitsu, Hu, Yunbin, Schwab, Matthias G., Bruna, Matteo, Yoon, Duhee, Milana, Silvia, Feng, Xinliang, Müllen, Klaus, Ferrari, Andrea C., Casiraghi, Cinzia, and Prezzi, Deborah. Mon . "Raman Fingerprints of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04183.
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@article{osti_1253054,
title = {Raman Fingerprints of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons},
author = {Verzhbitskiy, Ivan A. and Corato, Marzio De and Ruini, Alice and Molinari, Elisa and Narita, Akimitsu and Hu, Yunbin and Schwab, Matthias G. and Bruna, Matteo and Yoon, Duhee and Milana, Silvia and Feng, Xinliang and Müllen, Klaus and Ferrari, Andrea C. and Casiraghi, Cinzia and Prezzi, Deborah},
abstractNote = {Bottom-up approaches allow the production of ultranarrow and atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with electronic and optical properties controlled by the specific atomic structure. Combining Raman spectroscopy and ab initio simulations, we show that GNR width, edge geometry, and functional groups all influence their Raman spectra. As a result, the low-energy spectral region below 1000 cm–1 is particularly sensitive to edge morphology and functionalization, while the D peak dispersion can be used to uniquely fingerprint the presence of GNRs and differentiates them from other sp2 carbon nanostructures.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04183},
journal = {Nano Letters},
number = 6,
volume = 16,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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