Nanographenes and graphene nanoribbons as multitalents of present and future materials science

Y Gu, Z Qiu, K Müllen - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
As cut-outs from a graphene sheet, nanographenes (NGs) and graphene nanoribbons
(GNRs) are ideal cases with which to connect the world of molecules with that of bulk carbon …

Nanoarchitectonics: the method for everything in materials science

K Ariga - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Nanotechnology has revealed the science of the nanoscale. The global challenge that will
follow is to build functional materials with the knowledge of nanoscale phenomena. This task …

Nanoarchitectonics: what's coming next after nanotechnology?

K Ariga - Nanoscale Horizons, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In science and technology today, the crucial importance of the regulation of nanoscale
objects and structures is well recognized. The production of functional material systems …

Molecular carbon imides

W Jiang, Z Wang - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
The creation and development of new forms of nanocarbons have fundamentally
transformed the scientific landscape in the past three decades. As new members of the …

There is still plenty of room for layer-by-layer assembly for constructing nanoarchitectonics-based materials and devices

K Ariga, Y Lvov, G Decher - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoarchitectonics approaches can produce functional materials from tiny units through
combination of various processes including atom/molecular manipulation, chemical …

Aromatic hydrocarbon belts

QH Guo, Y Qiu, MX Wang, J Fraser Stoddart - Nature chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Aromatic hydrocarbon belts (AHCBs) have fascinated scientists for over half a century
because of their aesthetically appealing structures and potential applications in the field of …

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 …

Materials nanoarchitectonics from atom to living cell: A method for everything

K Ariga, R Fakhrullin - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Promoted understanding of nanostructures and their functions significantly rely on rapid
progress of nanotechnology within a few decades. It would be a fruitful way to consider …

Porous covalent organic nanotubes and their assembly in loops and toroids

K Koner, S Karak, S Kandambeth, S Karak… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon nanotubes, and synthetic organic nanotubes more generally, have in recent
decades been widely explored for application in electronic devices, energy storage …

The supramolecular chemistry of strained carbon nanohoops

Y Xu, M von Delius - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Since 1996, a growing number of strained macrocycles, comprising only sp2‐or sp‐
hybridized carbon atoms within the ring, have become synthetically accessible, with the [n] …