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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Figure 1.

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Two nanoribbon edge configurations. The pink network of carbon atoms is a ribbon with zigzag (Z) edges, and the yellow one has so-called armchair (A) edges. Note that while nanoribbons come in many different widths, the ones in the image are by convention both considered to be seven atoms wide.

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