The properties of graphene nanoribbons are highly dependent on structural variables such as width, length, edge structure, and heteroatom doping. Therefore, atomic precision over all these variables is necessary for establishing their fundamental properties and exploring their potential applications. An iterative approach is presented that assembles a small and carefully designed molecular buil...

We report on the initial stage of growing of silicon nanostructures on Pb-induced √ 3 × √ 3 and √ 3 × √ 7 reconstructed Si(111) surfaces. The deposition of 0.75 monolayer of Si at a temperature of around 200 K results in Si nanoribbons a few-nanometers in length running in three equivalent high symmetry directions of Si(111) surface, as revealed by low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy ...

Using density functional theory calculations, we compute the edge energies and stresses for edges of SiC and BN nanoribbons, and the boundary energies and stresses for domain boundaries of graphene-BN superlattices. SiC and BN armchair nanoribbons show pronounced edge relaxations, which obliterate the threefold oscillatory behavior of the edge stress reported for graphene. Our calculations show...

This Communication describes a new molecular design for the efficient synthesis of donor-acceptor, cove-edge graphene nanoribbons and their properties in solar cells. These nanoribbons are long (∼5 nm), atomically precise, and soluble. The design is based on the fusion of electron deficient perylene diimide oligomers with an electron rich alkoxy pyrene subunit. This strategy of alternating elec...

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a family of van der Waals layered materials exhibiting unique electronic, optical, magnetic and transport properties. Their technological potentials hinge critically on the ability to achieve controlled fabrication of desirable nanostructures, such as nanoribbons and nanodots. To date, nanodots/nanoislands have been regularly observed, while controlle...

Graphene being a zero band gap material hinders the use of its intrinsic form for many applications requiring a moderate band gap, such as field effect transistors and optoelectronic devices. Here we demonstrate a scalable method based on chemical vapor deposition for the direct growth of well-registered graphene nanoribbons on SiO(2) substrates with precise control over their width, length, an...

Arsenene and antimonene, i.e. two-dimensional (2D) As and Sb monolayers, are the recently proposed cousins of phosphorene (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 3112 (2015)). Through first-principle calculations, we systematically investigate electronic and transport properties of the corresponding As and Sb nanoribbons, which are cut from the arsenene and antimonene nanosheets. We find that different fro...

The search for new materials is a very intense task in many technological areas. In 2015, variant of graphene was proposed, the pentagraphene, which followed by propose pentagonal boron nitride structure called penta-BN2. Based on these structures, we investigated electronic, magnetic, and optical properties penta-BN2 nanoribbons (p-BNNRs) considering four different kinds edges, carefully closi...

One-dimensional (1D) zigzag [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) nanoribbons are produced by folding two-dimensional ultrathin PCBM nanosheets in a simple solvent process. The unique 1D PCBM nanostructures exhibit uniform width of 3.8 ± 0.3 nm, equivalent to four PCBM molecules, and lengths of 20-400 nm. These nanoribbons show well-defined crystalline structure, comprising PCBM mol...

Three single-layer tetragonal silicon carbides (SiCs), termed as T1, T2 and T3, are proposed by density functional theory (DFT) computations. Although the three structures have the same topological geometry, they show versatile electronic properties from a semiconductor (T1), a semimetal (T2) to a metal (T3). The versatile properties originate from the rich bonds between Si and C atoms. The nan...