SPECIAL TOPICS

Graphene - December 2008

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Read interviews, first-person essays, profiles, and other features about people in a wide variety of fields, along with information on journals & institutions in the topic of Graphene. All of the author comments below are also listed in the site-wide Author Commentaries listings (available by month/year or alphabetically).

	March 2009 Motohiko Ezawa; In our Special Topic on Graphene, the paper "Peculiar width dependence of the electronic properties of carbon nanoribbons" (Phys. Rev. B 73[4]: art. no. 045432, January 2006) by Professor Motohiko Ezawa is a key part of the Research Front on Graphene Nanoribbons, with 63 citations at the time of the analysis. In this interview below, he talks with ScienceWatch.com from Thomson Reuters about this highly cited paper. View Article
	February 2009 Konstantin Novoselov; In our Special Topics analysis on graphene research over the past decade, the scientist whose work ranks at #1 by total cites is Dr. Kostya Novoselov, with 33 papers cited a total of 2,895 times. According to Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters, his record includes 49 papers, largely classified in Physics and Materials Science, cited 3,536. Here, ScienceWatch.com correspondent Gary Taubes talks with Dr. Novoselov about his pioneering work with graphene. View Article
	January 2009 Zhihong Chen; One of the key papers in the Research Front on Graphene Nano-ribbons (which has been mapped) is "Graphene nano-ribbon electronics," (Chen ZH, et al., Physica E 40[2]: 228-32, December 2007), which has garnered 39 citations since its publication and up to August 31, 2008. In this interview, lead author Dr. Zhihong Chen talks with ScienceWatch.com about this paper and its significance in the field of graphene research. View Article
	January 2009 Oded Hod, Gustavo Scuseria, & Veronica Barone; According to our Special Topics analysis on Graphene, a key paper in the Research Front Map on Graphene Nanoribbons is "Electronic structure and stability of semiconducting graphene nanoribbons," (Nano Lett. 6[12]: 2748-54, 13 December 2006). In this interview, ScienceWatch.com talks with one of the paper's authors, Dr. Oded Hod, about the work and its impact on the field. View Article
	December 2008 Francisco Guinea; According to our Special Topics analysis of graphene research over the past decade, Dr. Francisco Guinea ranks at #2 by total papers with 47 papers cited a total of 1,091 times. Eighteen of his papers are classified as Highly Cited Papers in Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com talks with Dr. Guinea about his graphene research. View Article