May/2016 – sp2 – based nanocarbon physical properties reviewed
Nanocarbon materials have been very atractive to physicists and other material scientists because they are model systems for nanoscience and important building blocks for nanotechnology. The richness of the electronic properties of graphene is a consequence of a unique Fermi surface (Dirac cone) and of its symmetry. This special gapless electronic band structure offers many opportunities for new physics and determines the striking properties of graphene’s one-dimensional counterparts: nanoribbons and nanotubes.
A new review article on this topic, authored by reasearchers from RPI, MIT and UFC, has been recently published in the prestigious journal Reviews of Modern Physics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.88.025005). A comprehensive analysis of the unique properties of sp2 nanocarbon materials is done by considering the behavior of single layer and few-layer graphene and then extending the analysis to nanoribbons and nanotubes in terms of their reduced dimensionality and curvature.
The full reference of the paper is:
Physical properties of low-dimensional sp2-based carbon nanostructures
V. Meunier, A. G. Souza Filho, E. B. Barros, and M. S. Dresselhaus
Reviews of Modern Physics 88, 025005 (2016)
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.88.025005