Sci-Bytes> Hot Paper in Chemistry
Week of May 30, 2010
"Chemically derived, ultrasmooth graphene nanoribbon semiconductors," by Xiaolin Li, Xinran Wang, Li Zhang, Sangwon Lee, and Hongjie Dai, Science, 319(5867): 1229-32, 29 February 2008.
[Authors' affiliation: Stanford University, CA]
Abstract: "We developed a chemical route to produce graphene nanoribbons (GNR) with width below 10 nanometers, as well as single ribbons with varying widths along their lengths or containing lattice-defined graphene junctions for potential molecular electronics. The GNRs were solution-phase-derived, stably suspended in solvents with noncovalent polymer functionalization, and exhibited ultrasmooth edges with possibly well-defined zigzag or armchair-edge structures. Electrical transport experiments showed that, unlike single-walled carbon nanotubes, all of the sub-10-nanometer GNRs produced were semiconductors and afforded graphene field effect transistors with on-off ratios of about 10(7) at room temperature."
This 2008 report from Science was cited 41 times in current journal articles indexed by Clarivate during January-February 2010. Matching its placement after the previous count for November-December 2009, the report remains the second-most-cited chemistry paper published in the last two years, aside from reviews. Prior to the most recent bimonthly tally, citations to the paper have accrued as follows:
November-December 2009: 44 citations
September-October 2009: 38
July-August 2009: 44
May-June 2009: 32
March-April 2009: 31
January-February 2009: 34
November-December 2008: 22
September-October 2008: 14
July-August 2008: 21
May-June 2008: 4
Total citations to date: 325
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