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Directed assembly of molecular precursors allows the fabrication of graphene nanoribbons with atomic precision.

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Figure 1: Atomic and electronic structure of two-dimensional graphene.
Figure 2: Assembly of one-dimensional GNRs.

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  1. Michael S. Fuhrer is the Director of the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA. mfuhrer@umd.edu,

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