**Meet the editor**

Jian Ru Gong is a Professor at National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China. She received her PhD in Physical Chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences under the guidance of Prof. Chunli Bai (2005), and was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Charles M. Lieber at Harvard University (2005-2008). Her current research interest focuses on design and

preparation of novel nanoscale materials and devices, and their applications for green renewable energy and biomedicine.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Theoretical Aspect 1**

Dariush Jahani

Guo-Ping Tong

Miroslav Pardy

**Section 2 Experimental Aspect 159**

Guo-Ping Guo

**Graphene Oxide 185**

**Nano-Ribbons 29**

Chapter 1 **Electronic Tunneling in Graphene 3**

Chapter 2 **Localised States of Fabry-Perot Type in Graphene**

V. V. Zalipaev, D. M. Forrester, C. M. Linton and F. V. Kusmartsev

**Embedded Graphene and Bigraphene with Defects 135**

Elena Manzhelii, Alexander Kotlar and Kirill Kravchenko

Alexander Feher, Eugen Syrkin, Sergey Feodosyev, Igor Gospodarev,

Hai-Ou Li, Tao Tu, Gang Cao, Lin-Jun Wang, Guang-Can Guo and

Chapter 3 **Electronic Properties of Deformed Graphene Nanoribbons 81**

Chapter 4 **The Cherenkov Effect in Graphene-Like Structures 101**

Chapter 5 **Electronic and Vibrational Properties of Adsorbed and**

Chapter 6 **Quantum Transport in Graphene Quantum Dots 161**

Chapter 7 **Advances in Resistive Switching Memories Based on**

Fei Zhuge, Bing Fu and Hongtao Cao
