Friday, 20 May 2022
An ICN2-led study introducing a novel synthesis technique for 2D heterogeneous materials featured on the cover of Advanced Materials
The authors were able to synthesize single layers of hybrid nanoporous graphene with chemically heterogeneous pore structure that electronically behave as a lateral superlattice heterostructure.
A research published in Advanced Materials and carried out by the ICN2 Atomic Manipulation and Spectroscopy Group, led by ICREA Prof. Aitor Mugarza, in collaboration with researchers of the ICN2 Theory and Simulation Group, as well as colleagues at UNICAN and at CiQUS, was featured on the cover of the journal.
The authors of this work devised a novel bottom-up method to assemble 2D lateral superlattice heterostructures composed of interdigitated pristine and nitrogen-doped graphene nanoribbons. Designed with unprecedented precision, this nanomaterial exhibits properties relevant for application in photodetection, excitonic solar cells, water splitting, or selective nanofiltration.
Read the previously published news about this paper. The artwork on the cover is by Dr Maria Tenorio (ICN2), who is also the first author of the publication.