Carbon is one of the basic elements for life on Earth. It exists in diverse allotropic forms while
being different in chemical and physical properties. The best well-known natural allotropes …

The layer-by-layer (LbL) adsorption technique offers an easy and inexpensive process for
multilayer formation and allows a variety of materials to be incorporated within the film …

The controlled fabrication of nanometer-scale objects is without doubt one of the central
issues in current science and technology. However, existing fabrication techniques suffer …

Atom/molecular‐level controls in nanotechnology are important for the precise placement of
components in device applications. Despite many advances, nanotechnology still uses …

Self-organisation is an elegant tool for the creation of assemblies controlled in all
dimensions with tunable properties in natural as well as artificial supramolecular systems …

Nanomaterials have been prepared over a wide range of length scales from nanoscopic
objects to bulk structural materials. Recent investigations have been focused on the …

The strategic design of nanostructured materials, the properties of which could be controlled
across different length scales and which, at the same time, could be used as building blocks …

The science of the self-assembly of nano/microstructures from functional, organic, π-
conjugated molecules is intriguing because of their potential use in optical, electrical …

Despite the increasing interest of the scientific community in carbon nanotubes and
graphene, fullerene C60 still plays an important role in the family of nanocarbons. A quarter …

Fullerene assembling with specific donor molecules would yield multifunctional
metamaterials via the collective behavior, wherein linear acenes are widely used as donor …