The Divine Comedy begins with the middle-aged poet Dante wandering alone through a dark forest, having lost his way on the " true path. " Driven deeper by frightening creatures blocking his escape route, he spies a human form that reveals itself to be the ghostly embodiment of the great Roman poet Virgil. Virgil offers to serve as Dante's guide out of the dark forest to Heaven but warns him tha...

It is usually assumed that tunneling current is fairly independent of temperature. By performing an atomistic transport simulation, we show, to the contrary, that the subthreshold tunneling current in a graphene nanoribbon (GNR) band-to-band tunneling transistor (TFET) should show significant and nonlinear temperature dependence. Furthermore, the nature of this non-linearity changes as a functi...

Bottom-up synthesis of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) is an essential step toward utilizing them in electronic and sensing applications due to their defined edge structure and high uniformity. Recently, structurally perfect GNRs with variable lengths and edge structures were created using various chemical synthesis techniques. Nonetheless, issues like GNR deposition, characterization, electronic p...

Nitrogen-doped graphene nanoribbons (N-GNRs) were prepared by thermal treatment of the as-zipped graphene oxide nanoribbons in NH3 gas. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements revealed a high nitrogen content up to 6.5 atom% for the as-prepared N-GNRs. This, together with the high Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area of about 751 cm(2) g(-1), prompted us to use the N-GNR as the...

In this paper, we analyzed the influence of changing the material of electrodes on the transport properties of single junction comprising GNR (Graphene Nano Ribbon) stringed to two semi-infinite electrodes using semi empirical model. The investigation of electron transport through GNR was accomplished by linking it to different metallic electrodes (Pt, Au and Ag) under different bias voltages w...

We present an efficient approach to study the carrier transport in graphene nanoribbon (GNR) devices using the non-equilibrium Green's function approach (NEGF) based on the Dirac equation calibrated to the tight-binding π-bond model for graphene. The approach has the advantage of the computational efficiency of the Dirac equation and still captures sufficient quantitative details of the bandstr...

Control of both the regularity of a material ensemble and nanoscale architecture provides unique opportunities to develop novel thermoelectric applications based on 2D materials. As an example, the authors explore the electronic and thermal properties of functionalized graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) in the single-sheet and helical architectures using multiscale simulations. The results suggest tha...

Imaging is routinely used for clinical and diagnostic purposes, but techniques capable of high specificity and resolution for the early detection of nerve injury are still limited. In this study, we found that heat shock protein 27 (HSP27) becomes highly upregulated within 3 to 7 days of nerve injury. Taking advantage of this expression pattern, we conjugated gold nanorods (GNRs) to HSP27-speci...

The effective two-photon absorption in the hybrid material comprising quantum dots (QDs) a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) matrix and gold nanorods (GNRs) was increased 12-fold due to nonlinear energy transfer from GNR plasmons QD excitons.

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are a promising emerging class of designer quantum materials with electronic properties that tunable by chemical design. However, many challenges remain in the device integration these materials, especially regarding contacting strategies. We report on uniaxially aligned and non-aligned 9-atom wide armchair (9-AGNRs) field-effect transistor geometr...