Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Nagoya University

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2012/06/building-nanographene-organic-synthesis“Speaking at the RSC’s seventh International Symposium on Advancing the Chemical Sciences in Edinburgh, UK, Kenichiro Itami from Nagoya University explained that there is currently no efficient way of making graphene with well-defined shapes and edge geometries from the bottom up. Fabrication technology that made this possible would be exceptionally useful as evidence from graphene device researchers points to the edges being extremely important in determining the properties of a piece of graphene.”