On-surface synthesis has emerged as a powerful tool to fabricate various functional low-
dimensional nanostructures with atomic precision, thus becoming a promising platform for …

Open-shell nanographenes appear as promising candidates for future applications in
spintronics and quantum technologies. A critical aspect to realize this potential is to design …

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are strips of graphene, with widths of a few nanometers, that
are promising candidates for future applications in nanodevices and quantum information …

Cyclodehydrogenation reactions in the on-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons
(GNRs) usually involve a series of Csp2–Csp2 and/or Csp2–Csp3 couplings and just …

From the structure point of view, there are a number of ways of tiling a carbon sheet with
different polygons, resulting in prospects of tailoring electronic structures of low-dimensional …

The emergence of quantum magnetism in nanographenes provides ample opportunities to
fabricate purely organic devices for spintronics and quantum information. Although …

Carbohydrates are the most abundant organic material on Earth and the structural “material
of choice” in many living systems. Nevertheless, design and engineering of synthetic …

We argue that the formation of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov excitations in proximitized thin films is
largely mediated by a type of Andreev-bound state named after de Gennes and Saint …

Nonequilibrium quantum transport is of central importance in nanotechnology. Its description
requires the understanding of strong electronic correlations that couple atomic-scale …

On-surface synthesis, as a bottom-up synthetic method, has been proven to be a powerful
tool for atomically precise fabrication of low-dimensional carbon nanomaterials over the past …