Focus

Graphene

Graphene has been among the fastest growing areas of nanoscience and technology over the past five years. This two-dimensional form of carbon has been found to have remarkable electronic, optical, mechanical and chemical properties, and continues to be the subject of intense research. Graphene is also being considered for applications as diverse as plastic packaging and next-generation gigahertz transistors. This web focus brings together all the articles on different aspects of graphene that have been published in Nature Nanotechnology.

Top

Introduction

Review article:

Graphene transistors FREE

Frank Schwierz

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.89

Feature:

Selling graphene by the ton

Michael Segal

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.279

News & Views:

Thinking outside the silicon box

Tomás Palacios

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.125

News & Views:

Graphene: Calling all chemists

Rod Ruoff

doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.432

News & Views:

Graphene: From strength to strength

Jeroen van den Brink

doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.91

Editorial:

Graphene 2.0

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.253

Editorial:

Carbon does it again

doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.97


Top

Synthesis

Review article:

Chemical methods for the production of graphenes

Sungjin Park & Rodney S. Ruoff

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.58

Article:

Bi- and trilayer graphene solutions

Chih-Jen Shih, Aravind Vijayaraghavan, Rajasekar Krishnan, Richa Sharma, Jae-Hee Han, Moon-Ho Ham, Zhong Jin, Shangchao Lin, Geraldine L.C. Paulus, Nigel Forest Reuel, Qing Hua Wang, Daniel Blankschtein & Michael S. Strano

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.94

Article:

Transforming C60 molecules into graphene quantum dots

Jiong Lu, Pei Shan Emmeline Yeo, Chee Kwan Gan, Ping Wu & Kian Ping Loh

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.30

Letter:

Roll-to-roll production of 30-inch graphene films for transparent electrodes

Sukang Bae, Hyeongkeun Kim, Youngbin Lee, Xiangfan Xu, Jae-Sung Park, Yi Zheng, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Tian Lei, Hye Ri Kim, Young Il Song, Young-Jin Kim, Kwang S. Kim, Barbaros Özyilmaz, Jong-Hyun Ahn, Byung Hee Hong & Sumio Iijima

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.132

Letter:

Scalable templated growth of graphene nanoribbons on SiC

M. Sprinkle, M. Ruan, Y. Hu, J. Hankinson, M. Rubio-Roy, B. Zhang, X. Wu, C. Berger & W. A. de Heer

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.192

Letter:

Facile synthesis of high-quality graphene nanoribbons

Liying Jiao, Xinran Wang, Georgi Diankov, Hailiang Wang & Hongjie Dai

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.54

Letter:

Highly conducting graphene sheets and Langmuir–Blodgett films

Xiaolin Li, Guangyu Zhang, Xuedong Bai, Xiaoming Sun, Xinran Wang, Enge Wang & Hongjie Dai

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.210

Article:

High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite

Yenny Hernandez, Valeria Nicolosi, Mustafa Lotya, Fiona M. Blighe, Zhenyu Sun, Sukanta De, I. T. McGovern, Brendan Holland, Michele Byrne, Yurii K. Gun'Ko, John J. Boland, Peter Niraj, Georg Duesberg, Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Robbie Goodhue, John Hutchison, Vittorio Scardaci, Andrea C. Ferrari & Jonathan N. Coleman

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.215

Letter:

High-throughput solution processing of large-scale graphene

Vincent C. Tung, Matthew J. Allen, Yang Yang & Richard B. Kaner

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.329

Article:

Processable aqueous dispersions of graphene nanosheets

Dan Li, Marc B. Müller, Scott Gilje, Richard B. Kaner & Gordon G. Wallace

doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.451

Letter:

Spontaneous high-concentration dispersions and liquid crystals of graphene

Natnael Behabtu, Jay R. Lomeda, Micah J. Green, Amanda L. Higginbotham, Alexander Sinitskii, Dmitry V. Kosynkin, Dmitri Tsentalovich, A. Nicholas G. Parra-Vasquez, Judith Schmidt, Ellina Kesselman, Yachin Cohen, Yeshayahu Talmon, James M. Tour & Matteo Pasquali

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.86


Top

Electronic properties and devices

Article:

Dual-gated bilayer graphene hot-electron bolometer

J Yan, M-H. Kim, J. A. Elle, A. B. Sushkov, G. S. Jenkins, H. M. Milchberg, M. S. Fuhrer & H. D. Drew

doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.88

Letter:

Transport spectroscopy of symmetry-broken insulating states in bilayer graphene

J. Velasco, Jr, L. Jing, W. Bao, Y. Lee, P. Kratz, V. Aji, M. Bockrath, C. N. Lau, C. Varma, R. Stillwell, D. Smirnov, Fan Zhang, J. Jung & A. H. MacDonald

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.251

Letter:

Ultrafast hot-carrier-dominated photocurrent in graphene

Dong Sun, Grant Aivazian, Aaron M. Jones, Jason S. Ross, Wang Yao, David Cobden & Xiaodong Xu

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.243

Letter:

Direct laser writing of micro-supercapacitors on hydrated graphite oxide films

Wei Gao, Neelam Singh, Li Song, Zheng Liu, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Lijie Ci, Robert Vajtai, Qing Zhang, Bingqing Wei, & Pulickel M. Ajayan

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.110

Article:

The origins and limits of metal–graphene junction resistance

Fengnian Xia, Vasili Perebeinos, Yu-ming Lin, Yanqing Wu & Phaedon Avouris

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.6

Article:

Large intrinsic energy bandgaps in annealed nanotube-derived graphene nanoribbons

T. Shimizu, J. Haruyama, D. C. Marcano, D. V. Kosinkin, J. M. Tour, K. Hirose & K. Suenaga

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.249

Letter:

Boron nitride substrates for high-quality graphene electronics

C. R. Dean, A. F. Young, I. Meric, C. Lee, L. Wang, S. Sorgenfrei, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Kim, K. L. Shepard & J. Hone

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.172

Letter:

Very large magnetoresistance in graphene nanoribbons

Jingwei Bai, Rui Cheng, Faxian Xiu, Lei Liao, Minsheng Wang, Alexandros Shailos, Kang L. Wang, Yu Huang & Xiangfeng Duan

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.154

Letter:

An extended defect in graphene as a metallic wire

Jayeeta Lahiri, You Lin, Pinar Bozkurt, Ivan I. Oleynik & Matthias Batzill

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.53

Letter:

Graphene nanomesh

Jingwei Bai, Xing Zhong, Shan Jiang, Yu Huang & Xiangfeng Duan

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.8

Letter:

Fast DNA sequencing with a graphene-based nanochannel device

Seung Kyu Min, Woo Youn Kim, Yeonchoo Cho & Kwang S. Kim

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.283

News & Views:

Nanopores: Graphene opens up to DNA

Zuzanna S. Siwy & Matthew Davenport

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.198

Letter:

Towards a quantum resistance standard based on epitaxial graphene

Alexander Tzalenchuk, Samuel Lara-Avila, Alexei Kalaboukhov, Sara Paolillo, Mikael Syväjärvi, Rositza Yakimova, Olga Kazakova, T. J. B. M. Janssen, Vladimir Fal'ko & Sergey Kubatkin

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.474

Letter:

Measurement of the quantum capacitance of graphene

Jilin Xia, Fang Chen, Jinghong Li & Nongjian Tao

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.177

Letter:

Trilayer graphene is a semimetal with a gate-tunable band overlap

M. F. Craciun, S. Russo, M. Yamamoto, J. B. Oostinga, A. F. Morpurgo & S. Tarucha

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.89

Letter:

Current saturation in zero-bandgap, top-gated graphene field-effect transistors

Inanc Meric, Melinda Y. Han, Andrea F. Young, Barbaros Ozyilmaz, Philip Kim & Kenneth L. Shepard

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.268

Letter:

Monitoring dopants by Raman scattering in an electrochemically top-gated graphene transistor

A. Das, S. Pisana, B. Chakraborty, S. Piscanec, S. K. Saha, U. V. Waghmare, K. S. Novoselov, H. R. Krishnamurthy, A. K. Geim, A. C. Ferrari & A. K. Sood

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.67

Letter:

Intrinsic and extrinsic performance limits of graphene devices on SiO2

Jian-Hao Chen, Chaun Jang, Shudong Xiao, Masa Ishigami & Michael S. Fuhrer

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.58

Letter:

Contact and edge effects in graphene devices

Eduardo J. H. Lee, Kannan Balasubramanian, Ralf Thomas Weitz, Marko Burghard & Klaus Kern

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.172


Top

Optical properties and devices

Article:

Emissive ZnO–graphene quantum dots for white-light-emitting diodes

Dong Ick Son, Byoung Wook Kwon, Dong Hee Park, Won-Seon Seo, Yeonjin Yi, Basavaraj Angadi, Chang-Lyoul Lee & Won Kook Choi

doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.71

Letter:

Hybrid graphene–quantum dot phototransistors with ultrahigh gain

Gerasimos Konstantatos, Michela Badioli, Louis Gaudreau, Johann Osmond, Maria Bernechea, F. Pelayo Garcia de Arquer, Fabio Gatti & Frank H. L. Koppens

doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.60

Letter:

Tunable infrared plasmonic devices using graphene/insulator stacks

Hugen Yan, Xuesong Li, Bhupesh Chandra, George Tulevski, Yanqing Wu, Marcus Freitag, Wenjuan Zhu, Phaedon Avouris & Fengnian Xia

doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.59

Letter:

Atomically localized plasmon enhancement in monolayer graphene

Wu Zhou, Jaekwang Lee, Jagjit Nanda, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Stephen J. Pennycook & Juan-Carlos Idrobo

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.252

Letter:

Graphene plasmonics for tunable terahertz metamaterials

Long Ju, Baisong Geng, Jason Horng, Caglar Girit, Michael Martin, Zhao Hao, Hans A. Bechtel, Xiaogan Liang, Alex Zettl, Y. Ron Shen & Feng Wang

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.146

Article:

Graphene oxide windows for in situ environmental cell photoelectron spectroscopy

Andrei Kolmakov, Dmitriy A. Dikin, Laura J. Cote, Jiaxing Huang,Majid Kazemian Abyaneh, Matteo Amati, Luca Gregoratti, Sebastian G&nther & Maya Kiskinova

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.130

Letter:

Thermal infrared emission from biased graphene

Marcus Freitag, Hsin-Ying Chiu, Mathias Steiner, Vasili Perebeinos & Phaedon Avouris

doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.90

Letter:

A tunable phonon–exciton Fano system in bilayer graphene

Tsung-Ta Tang, Yuanbo Zhang, Cheol-Hwan Park, Baisong Geng, Caglar Girit, Zhao Hao, Michael C. Martin, Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie, Steven G. Louie, Y. Ron Shen & Feng Wang

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.334

Letter:

Ultrafast graphene photodetector

Fengnian Xia, Thomas Mueller, Yu-ming Lin, Alberto Valdes-Garcia & Phaedon Avouris

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.292


Top

Mechanical and structural properties and devices

Letter:

A local optical probe for measuring motion and stress in a nanoelectromechanical system

Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, Laëtitia Marty, Olivier Arcizet, Nedjma Bendiab & Vincent Bouchiat

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.250

Letter:

Ultrastrong adhesion of graphene membranes

Steven P. Koenig, Narasimha G. Boddeti, Martin L. Dunn & J. Scott Bunch

doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.123

Article:

Performance of monolayer graphene nanomechanical resonators with electrical readout

Changyao Chen, Sami Rosenblatt, Kirill I. Bolotin, William Kalb, Philip Kim, Ioannis Kymissis, Horst L. Stormer, Tony F. Heinz & James Hone

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.267

Letter:

Structural transformations in graphene studied with high spatial and temporal resolution

Jamie H. Warner, Mark H. Rümmeli, Ling Ge, Thomas Gemming, Barbara Montanari, Nicholas M. Harrison, Bernd Büchner & G. Andrew D. Briggs

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.194

Article:

Free-standing graphene at atomic resolution

Mhairi H. Gass, Ursel Bangert, Andrew L. Bleloch, Peng Wang, Rahul R. Nair & A. K. Geim

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.280

Letter:

Functionalized graphene sheets for polymer nanocomposites

T. Ramanathan, A. A. Abdala, S. Stankovich, D. A. Dikin, M. Herrera-Alonso, R. D. Piner, D. H. Adamson, H. C. Schniepp, X. Chen, R. S. Ruoff, S. T. Nguyen, I. A. Aksay, R. K. Prud'Homme & L. C. Brinson

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.96


Extra navigation

naturejobs

ADVERTISEMENT