TY - JOUR
T1 - Electron-beam engineering of single-walled carbon nanotubes from bilayer graphene
AU - Algara-Siller, Gerardo
AU - Santana, Adriano
AU - Onions, Rosalind
AU - Suyetin, Mikhail
AU - Biskupek, Johannes
AU - Bichoutskaia, Elena
AU - Kaiser, Ute
N1 - Funding Information:
G.A.-S. acknowledges the support of CONACyT-DAAD stipend. E.B. acknowledges EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship , New Directions for EPSRC Research Leaders Award ( EP/G005060 ) and ERC starting grant for funding. G.A.-S., U.K. and J.B. acknowledge the financial support by the DFG (German Research Foundation) and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts (MWK) of Baden-Wuerttemberg in the frame of the SALVE (Sub Angstrom Low-Voltage Electron Microscopy) project.
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - Bilayer graphene nanoribbons (BGNRs) with a predefined width have been produced directly from bilayer graphene using a transmission electron microscope (TEM) in scanning mode operated at 300 kV. The BGNRs have been subsequently imaged in high-resolution TEM mode at 80 kV. During imaging, the interaction of the electrons with the sample induces structural transformations in the BGNR, such as closure of the edges and thinning, leading to the formation of a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT). We demonstrate using molecular dynamics simulations that the produced SWCNT is, in fact, a flattened SWCNT with elliptical circumference. Density functional theory calculations show that the band gap of the flattened semiconducting SWCNTs is significantly smaller than that of the undeformed semiconducting SWCNTs, and this effect is particularly profound in narrow SWCNTs.
AB - Bilayer graphene nanoribbons (BGNRs) with a predefined width have been produced directly from bilayer graphene using a transmission electron microscope (TEM) in scanning mode operated at 300 kV. The BGNRs have been subsequently imaged in high-resolution TEM mode at 80 kV. During imaging, the interaction of the electrons with the sample induces structural transformations in the BGNR, such as closure of the edges and thinning, leading to the formation of a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT). We demonstrate using molecular dynamics simulations that the produced SWCNT is, in fact, a flattened SWCNT with elliptical circumference. Density functional theory calculations show that the band gap of the flattened semiconducting SWCNTs is significantly smaller than that of the undeformed semiconducting SWCNTs, and this effect is particularly profound in narrow SWCNTs.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.07.107
DO - 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.07.107
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84884534487
SN - 0008-6223
VL - 65
SP - 80
EP - 86
JO - Carbon
JF - Carbon
ER -