title: Electronic structures of porous nanocarbons.
abstract: We use large scale ab-initio calculations to describe electronic structures of graphene, graphene nanoribbons, and carbon nanotubes periodically perforated with nanopores. We disclose common features of these systems and develop a unified picture that permits us to analytically predict and systematically characterize metal-semiconductor transitions in nanocarbons with superlattices of nanopores of different sizes and types. These novel materials with highly tunable band structures have numerous potential applications in electronics, light detection, and molecular sensing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.
authors.forename: Artem
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baskin
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Král
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004579:Electron Transport; D008956:Models, Chemical; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D016062:Porosity; D012666:Semiconductors
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon