On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising research field aimed at
creating new organic materials. A large number of chemical reactions have been …

Graphene nanostructures (GNs) including graphene nanoribbons and nanoflakes have
attracted tremendous interest in the field of chemistry and materials science due to their …

Nanographenes, or extended polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, have been attracting
increasing attention owing to their widespread applications in organic electronics. However …

Conspectus In recent years, synthetic transformations based on aryne chemistry have
become particularly popular, mostly due to the spread of methods to generate these highly …

Ladder phenylenes (LPs) composed of alternating fused benzene and cyclobutadiene rings
have been synthesized in solution with a maximum length no longer than five units. Longer …

Surface with well-defined components and structures possesses unique electronic,
magnetic, optical and chemical properties. As a result, surface chemistry research plays a …

Organic open-shell compounds are extraordinarily attractive materials for their use in
molecular spintronics thanks to their long spin-relaxation times and structural flexibility …

This article aims to provide a perspective on a number of new challenges and current trends
in carbon science. A number of Carbon editors have contributed sections to this article in the …

The development of functional organic molecules requires structures of increasing size and
complexity, which are typically obtained by the covalent coupling of smaller building blocks …

On-surface synthesis has been one of the hottest research fields in surface science in the
last decade, owing to its great potential for bottom-up synthesis of functional molecules and …