Category archives: DIPC Interfaces

Protection/deprotection strategy to zigzag edge segments of nanographenes

Protection/deprotection strategy to zigzag edge segments of nanographenes

DIPC Interfaces

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In the last decades, a new synthetic approach has been developed, generally termed as “on-surface synthesis” that substantially departs from standard chemistry in solution. Instead of the three-dimensional space of solvents in the latter, the environment of the reactants in this new approach are well-defined two-dimensional solid surfaces that are typically held under vacuum conditions […]

The dominant role of many-body correlations in TMDs superconductivity

The dominant role of many-body correlations in TMDs superconductivity

DIPC Advanced materialsDIPC Interfaces

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Several classes of correlated electron systems such as cuprates, iron-pnictides, iron-chalcogenides, and several heavy-fermion compounds, have been identified as unconventional superconductors. More recently, superconductivity with unconventional features has also been identified in twisted bilayer graphene. In this vein, the electronic correlations intrinsically present in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), a family of layered materials, are promising […]

Generation of net spins on chiral GNRs

Generation of net spins on chiral GNRs

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Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), are strips of graphene with ultra-thin width (<50 nm). Graphene ribbons were introduced as a theoretical model by Mitsutaka Fujita and coauthors to examine the edge and nanoscale size effect in graphene. Now, a team of researchers reports the generation of net spins on chiral GNRs (chGNRs) by ketone functionalization. GNRs are […]

Proximity effects or the fragility of electronic ground states in 2D materials

Proximity effects or the fragility of electronic ground states in 2D materials

DIPC Interfaces

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Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are layered compounds which can be thinned down to the single-layer limit. While mechanical exfoliation generates atomically thin TMD flakes possessing an area of a few square microns, chemical and physical methods provide high-quality monolayers on large-area substrates, which are suitable for actual technological applications. TMDs are a class of van […]

The orderly growth of 5-armchair graphene nanoribbons

The orderly growth of 5-armchair graphene nanoribbons

ChemistryDIPC Interfaces

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The advent of on-surface chemistry under vacuum has vastly increased our capabilities to synthesize carbon nanomaterials with atomic precision. Among the types of target structures that have been synthesized by these means, one-dimensional graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have probably attracted the most attention, and for a good reason: t he enormous tunability of GNRs’ electronic properties […]

Texturing of hexagonal boron nitride with atomic precision

Texturing of hexagonal boron nitride with atomic precision

DIPC InterfacesMaterials

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Since the discovery of graphene, a wide diversity of atomic-layer-thick, two-dimensional (2D) materials with varied properties have emerged. Of particular interest are those that exhibit semiconducting behaviour, such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). hBN is isoelectronic to graphene and has also a honeycomb lattice formed by alternating nitrogen and boron atoms, but in contrast to […]

Graphene nanoribbons need to be protected from oxygen to remain functional

Graphene nanoribbons need to be protected from oxygen to remain functional

DIPC Interfaces

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Real life is sometimes very different from laboratory settings. Take superconductivity, for example. In order to reach, it you either need extremely low temperatures, extremely high pressures or a combination of both; something that makes very difficult to conceive an everyday application out of a laboratory. Something similar happens with other new materials, but in […]