STM study of a grain boundary in graphite

By Priscilla Simonis, C. Goffaux, P. Thiry, László Péter Biró, P. Lambin, Vincent Meunier. 2002

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Structure, energy, and structural transformations of graphene grain boundaries from atomistic simulations (2011, background): “edge-sharing pentagon/heptagon (5|7) pairs [13].”
An extended defect in graphene as a metallic wire. (2010, background): “The observation of two-dimensional grain boundaries in highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) support the formation of such reconstructed carbon structure”
Electronic transport in polycrystalline graphene. (2010, background): “Such a structural motif has been proposed in the context of scanning tunnelling microscopy studies of grain boundaries in graphit”
Towards full repair of defects in reduced graphene oxide films by two-step graphitization (2013, background): “This lattice distortion induces localization of electronic states near the Fermi level at the grain boundary, which is therefore detected by STM as an apparently elevated line [71, 77].”