This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Projects of China (No. 2016YFA0202300), the National Basic Research Program of China (Nos. 2013CBA01600 and 2015CB921103), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61390501, 51325204, 51210003, and 61622116), and the CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program. Work at Yanderbilt is partially supported by the Department of Energy grant DE- FG02-09ER46554 and by the McMinn Endowment. Y. Y. Z and S. T. P acknowledge the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by the National Science Foundation Grant ACI-1053575.
Finite-sized graphene sheets, such as graphene nanoislands (GNIs), are promising candidates for practical applications in graphene-based nanoelectronics. GNIs with well-defined zigzag edges are predicted to have spi...
We gratefully thank Dr. Huaizong Shen and Dr. Gaoxingyu Huang for their assistance in preparing the figure of the electron density map of NavPaS. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31670723 and 31621092) and by the funds from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2015CB910100) as well as the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology.
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Acknowledgements Work at lOP and UCAS was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFA0202300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61390501, 61471337, 51210003, and 51325204), National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2013CBA01600), the CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program, the Transregional Collaborative Research Center TRR 61, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin. A portion of the research was performed in CAS Key Laboratory of Vacuum Physics. Work at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research were supported by the EC graphene flagship (No. CNECT-ICT-604391) and ERC NANOGRAPH. Work at Vanderbilt University was supported by Department of Energy grant DE-FG02- 09ER46554 and by the McMinn Endowment.
Unlike graphene sheets, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) can exhibit semiconducting band gap characteristics that can be tuned by controlling impurity doping and the GNR widths and edge structures. However, achieving suc...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11574319, 11304316, 11304317), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2011YQ130018), Department of Science and Technology of Yunnan Province, and by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS-This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11574319, 11304317, 11304272), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2011YQ130018), Department of Science and Technology of Yunnan Province, and by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Acknowledgements This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31270241, 31070166, 31100161), the Doctoral Fund of the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 20090181110064), the Basic Research Program from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2007FYl10100), and by the Specimen Platform of China, Teaching Specimens Sub-platform (ht-tp://mnh.scu.edu.cn/). The authors thank Chun-jing ZHOU, Dr. Xue-Mei ZHANG, Zhi- Xing WANG, Jin-Bo TAN, and Yun-Dong GAO for help in fieldwork. The authors thank the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier and present drafts of this manuscript.
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