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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 80, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.073401
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- Academy of Finland
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The edges of nanoscopic objects determine most of their properties. For this reason the edges of honeycomb carbon-always considered either zigzag- or armchairlike-need special attention. In this Brief Report we provide experimental evidence confirming a previous unexpected prediction: zigzag is a metastable edge as its planar reconstruction lowers energy and forms the most stable graphene edge. Our evidence is based on reanalyzing a recent experiment. Since the reconstructed edge, along with other unconventional edges we discuss, has distinct chemical properties, this discovery urges for care in experiments and theory-we must enter the realm beyond zigzag and armchair.
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