title: Patterning graphene through the self-assembled templates: toward periodic two-dimensional graphene nanostructures with semiconductor properties.
abstract: Periodic graphene nanostructures are fabricated via patterning graphene through the self-assembled monolayers of monodisperse colloidal microspheres. The resulting structures exhibit promising electronic properties featuring high conductivities and ON-OFF ratios up to 10. The apparent advantages of the presented method are the possibilities of fabricating periodic graphene nanostructures with different periodicities, ranging from ∼100 nm to several μm, and also varying the periodicity and the neck width independently. The use of the presented method yields graphene nanostructures with variable electronic properties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Rice University, MS 222, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sinitskii
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Tour