Small size, big impact: recent progress in bottom‐up synthesized nanographenes for optoelectronic and energy applications

Z Liu, S Fu, X Liu, A Narita, P Samorì, M Bonn… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bottom‐up synthesized graphene nanostructures, including 0D graphene quantum dots and
1D graphene nanoribbons, have recently emerged as promising candidates for efficient …

Molecular carbons: How far can we go?

MW Wang, W Fan, X Li, Y Liu, Z Li, W Jiang, J Wu… - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
The creation and development of carbon nanomaterials promoted material science
significantly. Bottom-up synthesis has emerged as an efficient strategy to synthesize …

A metal-free photoactive nitrogen-doped carbon nanosolenoid with broad absorption in visible region for efficient photocatalysis

Y Zhou, X Zhang, G Sheng, S Wang, M Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Riemann surfaces inspired chemists to design and synthesize such multidimensional curved
carbon architectures. It has been predicted that carbon nanosolenoid materials with …

Infinitene: a helically twisted figure-eight [12] circulene topoisomer

M Krzeszewski, H Ito, K Itami - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
New forms of molecular nanocarbon particularly looped polyarenes adopting various
topologies contribute to the fundamental science and practical applications. Here we report …

Nanoribbons with nonalternant topology from fusion of polyazulene: carbon allotropes beyond graphene

Q Fan, D Martin-Jimenez, D Ebeling… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Various two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotropes with nonalternant topologies, such as
pentaheptites and phagraphene, have been proposed. Predictions indicate that these …

Topological characterization and graph entropies of tessellations of kekulene structures: existence of isentropic structures and applications to thermochemistry …

SRJ Kavitha, J Abraham, M Arockiaraj… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tessellations of kekulenes and cycloarenes are of considerable interest as nanomolecular
belts in trapping and transportation of heavy metal ions and chloride ions, as they possess …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the graphene era

XY Wang, X Yao, K Müllen - Science China Chemistry, 2019 - Springer
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been the subject of interdisciplinary research
in the fields of chemistry, physics, materials science, and biology. Notably, PAHs have drawn …

Ir single atom catalyst loaded on amorphous carbon materials with high HER activity

C Liu, G Pan, N Liang, S Hong, J Ma… - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The research of high efficiency water splitting catalyst is important for the development of
renewable energy economy. Here, the progress in the preparation of high efficiency …

Synthesis of distorted nanographenes containing seven-and eight-membered carbocycles

IR Márquez, S Castro-Fernández, A Millán… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
This feature article focuses on the bottom-up approaches (solution-phase) based on organic
synthesis for the preparation of saddle-shaped distorted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons …

Synthesis of wafer‐scale graphene with chemical vapor deposition for electronic device applications

B Sun, J Pang, Q Cheng, S Zhang, Y Li… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The first isolation of graphene opens the avenue for new platforms for physics, electronic
engineering, and materials sciences. Among several kinds of synthesis approaches …