Issue 1, 2011
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Nanoscale

Graphene edges: a review of their fabrication and characterization

Xiaoting Jia,a   Jessica Campos-Delgado,b   Mauricio Terrones,cd   Vincent Meuniere  and  Mildred S. Dresselhaus*f  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
E-mail: xjia@mit.edu.
Tel: +617 253 6860

b Divisão de Metrologia de Materiais, Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Normalização e Qualidade Industrial (INMETRO), Duque de Caxias, RJ, Brazil
E-mail: jessica.mex@gmail.com

c Exotic Nanocarbon Research Center, Shinshu University, Wakasato 4-17-1, Nagano, Japan
E-mail: mtterrones@shinshu-u.ac.jp

d Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Lab., University Park, PA, USA
E-mail: mut11@psu.edu, mtterrones@gmail.com

e Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
E-mail: meuniv@rpi.edu

f Department of Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
E-mail: millie@mgm.mit.edu

Abstract

The current status of graphene edge fabrication and characterization is reviewed in detail. We first compare different fabrication methods, including the chemical vapor deposition method, various ways of unzipping carbon nanotubes, and lithographic methods. We then summarize the different edge/ribbon structures that have been produced experimentally or predicted theoretically. We discuss different characterization tools, such as transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy, that are currently used for evaluating the edge quality as well as the atomic structures. Finally, a detailed discussion of defective and folded edges is also presented. Considering the short history of graphene edge research, the progress has been impressive, and many further advances in this field are anticipated.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0NR00600A
Article type
Review Article
Submitted
16 Aug 2010
Accepted
09 Oct 2010
First published
22 Nov 2010

Nanoscale, 2011,3, 86-95

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X. Jia, J. Campos-Delgado, M. Terrones, V. Meunier and M. S. Dresselhaus, Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 86 DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00600A

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