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Navarro JJ, Leret S, Calleja F, et al. Organic Covalent Patterning of Nanostructured Graphene with Selectivity at the Atomic Level. Nano Lett. 2015;16(1):355-61doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03928.
Navarro, J. J., Leret, S., Calleja, F., Stradi, D., Black, A., Bernardo-Gavito, R., Garnica, M., Granados, D., Vázquez de Parga, A. L., Pérez, E. M., & Miranda, R. (2016). Organic Covalent Patterning of Nanostructured Graphene with Selectivity at the Atomic Level. Nano letters, 16(1), 355-61. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03928
Navarro, Juan Jesús, et al. "Organic Covalent Patterning of Nanostructured Graphene with Selectivity at the Atomic Level." Nano letters vol. 16,1 (2016): 355-61. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03928
Navarro JJ, Leret S, Calleja F, Stradi D, Black A, Bernardo-Gavito R, Garnica M, Granados D, Vázquez de Parga AL, Pérez EM, Miranda R. Organic Covalent Patterning of Nanostructured Graphene with Selectivity at the Atomic Level. Nano Lett. 2016 Jan 13;16(1):355-61. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03928. Epub 2015 Dec 02. PMID: 26624843.
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Nano Lett. 2016 Jan 13;16(1):355-61. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03928. Epub 2015 Dec 02.

Organic Covalent Patterning of Nanostructured Graphene with Selectivity at the Atomic Level.

Nano letters

Juan Jesús Navarro, Sofía Leret, Fabián Calleja, Daniele Stradi, Andrés Black, Ramón Bernardo-Gavito, Manuela Garnica, Daniel Granados, Amadeo L Vázquez de Parga, Emilio M Pérez, Rodolfo Miranda

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  1. IMDEA Nanociencia, Calle Faraday 9, Cantoblanco 28049, Madrid, Spain.

PMID: 26624843 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03928

Abstract

Organic covalent functionalization of graphene with long-range periodicity is highly desirable-it is anticipated to provide control over its electronic, optical, or magnetic properties-and remarkably challenging. In this work we describe a method for the covalent modification of graphene with strict spatial periodicity at the nanometer scale. The periodic landscape is provided by a single monolayer of graphene grown on Ru(0001) that presents a moiré pattern due to the mismatch between the carbon and ruthenium hexagonal lattices. The moiré contains periodically arranged areas where the graphene-ruthenium interaction is enhanced and shows higher chemical reactivity. This phenomenon is demonstrated by the attachment of cyanomethyl radicals (CH2CN(•)) produced by homolytic breaking of acetonitrile (CH3CN), which is shown to present a nearly complete selectivity (>98%) binding covalently to graphene on specific atomic sites. This method can be extended to other organic nitriles, paving the way for the attachment of functional molecules.

Keywords: Nanostructured graphene; chemical functionalization; epitaxial graphene; scanning tunneling microscopy

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