Along with the rapid development of micro/nanofabrication technology, the past few decades
have seen the flourishing emergence of subwavelength-structured materials and interfaces …

Surfaces are at the frontier of every known solid. They provide versatile supports for
functional nanostructures and mediate essential physicochemical processes. Intimately …

Abstract The [n] cycloparaphenylenes ([n] CPPs)—n para-linked phenylenes that form a
closed-loop—have attracted substantial attention due to their unique cyclic structure and …

Fluorophores are powerful tools for interrogating biological systems. Carbon nanotubes
(CNTs) have long been attractive materials for biological imaging due to their near-infrared …

Creating atomically precise quantum architectures with high digital fidelity and desired
quantum states is an important goal in a new era of quantum technology. The strategy of …

Among nanocarbon materials prepared via organic synthesis, carbon nanobelts (NBs), such
as cyclacenes and cyclophenacenes, and carbon nanohoops (NHs), such as …

Among the many parts constituting a scanning tunneling microscope, the metallic tip is the
component that directly interacts with the specimen and plays a critical role in visualizing the …

Silicon nanomaterials combine earth abundance and biodegradability with exceptional
electronic properties. Strategic synthesis promises access to novel architectures with well …

Isolated flat bands are known to host various strongly correlated phases due to the
enhanced Coulomb interactions when the flat bands are gapped from dispersive bands …

Molecular carbon nanorings,[n] cycloparaphenylenes ([n] CPP), are a unique class of
porous molecules with all-benzene surface. Herein, we report the preparation of polymorphs …