Atomically precise, custom-design origami graphene nanostructures
Abstract
The construction of atomically precise carbon nanostructures holds promise for developing materials for scientific study and nanotechnology applications. Here, we show that graphene origami is an efficient way to convert graphene into atomically precise, complex nanostructures. In this work, by scanning tunneling microscope manipulation at low temperature, we repeatedly fold and unfold graphene nanoislands (GNIs) along an arbitrarily chosen direction. A bilayer graphene stack featuring a tunable twist angle and a tubular edge connection between the layers is formed. Folding single-crystal GNIs creates tubular edges with specified chirality and one-dimensional electronic features similar to those of carbon nanotubes, whereas folding bicrystal GNIs creates well-defined intramolecular junctions. Both origami structural models and electronic band structures are computed to complement analysis of the experimental results. The present atomically precise graphene origami provides a platform for constructing carbon nanostructures with engineered quantum properties and, ultimately, quantum machines.
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- Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Key Research and Development Projects of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1560735
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1597961
- Grant/Contract Number:
- DESC0010833; FG02-09ER46554; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Science Journal Volume: 365 Journal Issue: 6457; Journal ID: ISSN 0036-8075
- Publisher:
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
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Chen, Hui, Zhang, Xian-Li, Zhang, Yu-Yang, Wang, Dongfei, Bao, De-Liang, Que, Yande, Xiao, Wende, Du, Shixuan, Ouyang, Min, Pantelides, Sokrates T., and Gao, Hong-Jun. Atomically precise, custom-design origami graphene nanostructures. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1126/science.aax7864.
Chen, Hui, Zhang, Xian-Li, Zhang, Yu-Yang, Wang, Dongfei, Bao, De-Liang, Que, Yande, Xiao, Wende, Du, Shixuan, Ouyang, Min, Pantelides, Sokrates T., & Gao, Hong-Jun. Atomically precise, custom-design origami graphene nanostructures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax7864
Chen, Hui, Zhang, Xian-Li, Zhang, Yu-Yang, Wang, Dongfei, Bao, De-Liang, Que, Yande, Xiao, Wende, Du, Shixuan, Ouyang, Min, Pantelides, Sokrates T., and Gao, Hong-Jun. Thu .
"Atomically precise, custom-design origami graphene nanostructures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax7864.
@article{osti_1560735,
title = {Atomically precise, custom-design origami graphene nanostructures},
author = {Chen, Hui and Zhang, Xian-Li and Zhang, Yu-Yang and Wang, Dongfei and Bao, De-Liang and Que, Yande and Xiao, Wende and Du, Shixuan and Ouyang, Min and Pantelides, Sokrates T. and Gao, Hong-Jun},
abstractNote = {The construction of atomically precise carbon nanostructures holds promise for developing materials for scientific study and nanotechnology applications. Here, we show that graphene origami is an efficient way to convert graphene into atomically precise, complex nanostructures. In this work, by scanning tunneling microscope manipulation at low temperature, we repeatedly fold and unfold graphene nanoislands (GNIs) along an arbitrarily chosen direction. A bilayer graphene stack featuring a tunable twist angle and a tubular edge connection between the layers is formed. Folding single-crystal GNIs creates tubular edges with specified chirality and one-dimensional electronic features similar to those of carbon nanotubes, whereas folding bicrystal GNIs creates well-defined intramolecular junctions. Both origami structural models and electronic band structures are computed to complement analysis of the experimental results. The present atomically precise graphene origami provides a platform for constructing carbon nanostructures with engineered quantum properties and, ultimately, quantum machines.},
doi = {10.1126/science.aax7864},
journal = {Science},
number = 6457,
volume = 365,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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Fig. 1: Construction of atomically well-defined folded GNSs by STM origami. (A) Schematic graphic of folding and unfolding a GNI along an arbitrary direction defined by the black arrow. (B) Experimental realization of (A). Series of STM images showing a sequence of the folding and unfolding of a GNI alongmore »
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