Aromatic saddles containing two heptagons

KY Cheung, X Xu, Q Miao - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Soluble derivatives of C70H26 (1a, b) and C70H30 (2a, b), two new saddle-shaped
polycyclic arenes containing two heptagons, were successfully synthesized from saddle …

Designing graphene structures with controlled distributions of topological defects: A case study of toughness enhancement in graphene ruga

T Zhang, X Li, H Gao - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
A novel design methodology combining phase field crystal method and atomistic simulations
is proposed to solve the inverse problem of finding the optimized distribution and type of …

Synthesis, structure, and properties of tetrabenzo [7] circulene

X Gu, H Li, B Shan, Z Liu, Q Miao - Organic letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Tetrabenzo [7] circulene, a new member of aromatic saddles, was conveniently synthesized
from 2-(1-naphthoyl) benzoic acid with the seven-membered ring constructed at an early …

Nature-inspired entwined coiled carbon mechanical metamaterials: molecular dynamics simulations

J Wu, Q Shi, Z Zhang, HH Wu, C Wang, F Ning, S Xiao… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Entwining-induced robust natural biosystems show superior mechanical performances over
their counterparts. However, the role played by topological entwinement in the mechanical …

Insights into thermal characteristics of spiral carbon-based nanomaterials: From heat transport mechanisms to tunable thermal diode behavior

A Sharifian, T Karbaschi, A Rajabpour… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The discovery of new ways and new materials to control heat transfer has always received
significant attention. Carbon-based nanomaterials due to their outstanding thermal …

Huge stretchability and reversibility of helical graphenes using molecular dynamics simulations and simplified theoretical models

C Zhu, J Ji, Z Zhang, S Dong, N Wei, J Zhao - Mechanics of Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Helical nanostructures, like nanosprings, made from carbon-based materials have broad
promising applications in mechanical nanodevices and energy-absorbing materials …

Insight into geometry-controlled mechanical properties of spiral carbon-based nanostructures

A Sharifian, M Baghani, J Wu… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The spiral structures of carbon-based materials such as coiled carbon nanotube (CCNT)
and graphene helicoid have attracted great attention for use in electrical and mechanical …

Hydrogenation-controlled mechanical properties in graphene helicoids: exceptional distribution-dependent behavior

A Sharifian, A Moshfegh, A Javadzadegan… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The ever-increasing development of nanotechnology has led to the creation of
nanomaterials with spiral geometry such as graphene helicoids (GHs) that are mainly used …

Magnetically induced current densities in toroidal carbon nanotubes

K Reiter, F Weigend, LN Wirz, M Dimitrova… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular structures of toroidal carbon nanotubes (TCNTs) have been constructed and
optimized at the density functional theory (DFT) level. The TCNT structures have been …

Ultrastretchable Helical Carbon Nanotube-Woven Film

Y Sang, Y Zhao, W Hao, L Miao, J Li… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Helical carbon nanotube (HCNT) is regarded as one of the most promising nanomaterials
due to its excellent tensile strength and superhigh stretchability. Here, a novel HCNT-woven …