Profs. Kenichiro Itami (Research Director, JST-ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Project; Director / Professor of Institute of Transformative Biomolecular Research (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University) and Hideto Ito (Sub Group Leader, Chemical Synthesis Group, Itami project; Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University), and Mr. Yuuta Yano (Graduate School of Science, PhD candidate, Nagoya University) succeeded in the precise synthesis of graphene nanoribbons by developing a revolutionary polymerization reaction named "living APEX polymerization."
This research result is expected to be a ground-breaking achievement that opens a new path in the field of materials science as the world's first precision graphene nanoribbon synthesis.