title: Bulk properties of solution-synthesized chevron-like graphene nanoribbons.
abstract: Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have received a great deal of attention due to their promise for electronic and optoelectronic applications. Several recent studies have focused on the synthesis of GNRs by the bottom-up approaches that could yield very narrow GNRs with atomically precise edges. One type of GNRs that has received a considerable attention is the chevron-like GNR with a very distinct periodic structure. Surface-assisted and solution-based synthetic approaches for the chevron-like GNRs have been developed, but their electronic properties have not been reported yet. In this work, we synthesized chevron-like GNRs in bulk by a solution-based method, characterized them by a number of spectroscopic techniques and measured their bulk conductivity. We demonstrate that solution-synthesized chevron-like GNRs are electrically conductive in bulk, which makes them a potentially promising material for applications in organic electronics and photovoltaics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA. sinitskii@unl.edu.
authors.forename: Timothy H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Vo
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shekhirev
authors.forename: Alexey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lipatov
authors.forename: Rafal A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Korlacki
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sinitskii