Nanoscale Editor’s choice: Carbon-based materials

Nanoscale Advisory Board member Professor Hua Zhang, an expert in the field of carbon-based materials, has picked his favourite articles recently published in this area in Nanoscale.Professor Hua Zhang photograph

You can read these articles by clicking on the links below.

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Read Professor Zhang’s Editor’s choice selection today:

Effect of N/B doping on the electronic and field emission properties for carbon nanotubes, carbon nanocones, and graphene nanoribbons
Shan-Sheng Yu and Wei-Tao Zheng
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00002G

Properties, synthesis, and growth mechanisms of carbon nanotubes with special focus on thermal chemical vapor deposition
Gilbert D. Nessim
DOI: 10.1039/B9NR00427K

Chemical approaches towards single-species single-walled carbon nanotubes
Cai-Hong Liu and Hao-Li Zhang
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00306A

Probing the electronic structure of carbon nanotubes by nanoscale spectroscopy
Paola Castrucci, Manuela Scarselli, Maurizio De Crescenzi, My Ali El Khakani and Federico Rosei
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00111B

A graphene-enhanced molecular beacon for homogeneous DNA detection
Fan Li, Yan Huang, Qing Yang, Zentao Zhong, Di Li, Lihua Wang, Shiping Song and Chunhai Fan
DOI: 10.1039/B9NR00401G

Preparation of graphene by a low-temperature thermal reduction at atmosphere pressure
Wufeng Chen and Lifeng Yan
DOI: 10.1039/B9NR00191C

Single-step synthesis and magnetic separation of graphene and carbon nanotubes in arc discharge plasmas
O. Volotskova, I. Levchenko, A. Shashurin, Y. Raitses, K. Ostrikov and M. Keidar
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00416B

Graphene nanoribbon band-gap expansion: Broken-bond-induced edge strain and quantum entrapment
Xi Zhang, Jer-lai Kuo, Mingxia Gu, Ping Bai and Chang Q. Sun
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00273A

High purity graphenes prepared by a chemical intercalation method
Sharali Malik, Aravind Vijayaraghavan, Rolf Erni, Katsuhiko Ariga, Ivan Khalakhan and Jonathan P. Hill
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00248H

Atomic-scale observation of rotational misorientation in suspended few-layer graphene sheets
Manoj K. Singh, Elby Titus, Gil Gonçalves, Paula A. A. P. Marques, Igor Bdikin, Andrei L. Kholkin and José J. A. Gracio
DOI: 10.1039/B9NR00256A

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