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Elusive cousins of graphene are captured in a golden ribbon

Researchers manage to make inherently unstable carbon materials that could have quantum applications.
nc-AFM image of carbon nanoribbons on Au(111).

A newly synthesized variety of of 2D carbon unspools in a ‘nanoribbon’, or nanometre-scale strip, on gold. Credit: Q. Fan et al./J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Chemists have finally synthesized 2D carbon compounds that promise exotic electronic properties — and that resisted scientists’ efforts to make them.

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Nature 575, 10 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03260-6

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