What is it about?
Carbon nanotubes can be unzipped longitudinally to get graphene nanoribbons where the width will be equal to 3.14 times the diameter of CNT in an ideal case. This publication gives details about how we do this using a solid electrolyte like Nafion which enables proton conductivity
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Why is it important?
This is first time a solid electrolyte is used for unzipping carbon nanotube. So far people have used aqueous and nonaqueous electrolytes and interestingly in former we get graphene nanoribbons irrespective of the pH while in latter we get quantum dots
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This page is a summary of: Electric field induced transformation of carbon nanotube to graphene nanoribbons using Nafion as a solid polymer electrolyte, Applied Physics Letters, April 2014, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/1.4871867.
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