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Graphene has potentially useful electronic properties but it is difficult to produce and process on large scales. Working with chemically modified forms of graphene — such as graphene oxide — may provide an alternative.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of a graphene sheet that has been chemically modified by hydrogenating the carbon atoms in well-defined regions to define 'ribbons' of graphene.

J. O. SOFO, PENN STATE

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  1. Rod Ruoff is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. r.ruoff@mail.utexas.edu,

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Ruoff, R. Calling all chemists. Nature Nanotech 3, 10–11 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2007.432

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