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10-07/08 :: July/August 2010

Top: Individual reaction steps in the surface chemical synthesis of zig-zag shaped graphene nanoribbons, and scanning tunneling microscopy images of the resulting nanoribbons. © EMPA / Prof. Dr. Roman Fasel / Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen

Reaction steps for creating a graphene nanoribbon from bianthryl-monomers, and scanning tunneling microscopy images of the reaction products. © EMPA / Prof. Dr. Roman Fasel / Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen

J. Cai, P. Ruffieux, R. Jaafar, M. Bieri, T. Braun, S. Blan- kenburg, M. Muoth, A.P. Seitsonen, M. Saleh, X. Feng, K. Müllen, R. Fasel: Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons, In: Nature, Vol. 466, No. 7305, July 22, 2010, Pages 470-473, DOI:10.1038/nature09211: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09211

Prof. Dr. Roman Fasel, Empa, Phone: +41 44 823 43 48, Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Mainz, Synthetic Chemistry, Phone: +49 6131 379 151