Patching carbon and boron nitride nanodomains emerges as an efficient way to engineer bandgaps in graphene, opening a new avenue for optoelectronic devices.
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Rubio, A. Nanoscale patchworks. Nature Mater 9, 379–380 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2746
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