Explore the world’s most powerful materials with nanographene research
Graphene, comprised of a single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb nanostructural arrangement, is the thinnest and strongest material yet known to science. Despite that this pristine carbon allotrope exhibits a variety of outstanding properties, its zero bandgap prevents its use for some optoelectronic applications. Fragments of graphene, or nanographenes, have shown a great potential to obviate these problems, thus paving the way for the development of chiroptical and optoelectronic properties.
Molecular Nanographenes constitutes a comprehensive overview on the synthesis of these materials and their properties. Covering their widely varying morphologies, their potential applications, and their valuable chiroptical and photophysical features, it also analyzes multiple approaches to obtain nanographene by using both top-down and bottom-up methodologies. The result is a one-stop shop for materials scientists and other researchers interested in these emergent and fascinating materials.
Molecular Nanographenes readers will also find:
- A careful distinction between top-down and bottom-up approaches to nanographene synthesis
- Detailed discussion of nanographene configurations including planar, bilayer, helical, nanobelt, and many other geometries
- An authorial team with pioneering research experience in the study of nano-sized graphenes and their synthesis
Molecular Nanographenes is ideal for materials scientists, polymer chemists, solid state chemists, organic chemists, and any other researchers looking to work with shape and size-controlled flakes of graphenes.
Table of Content
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN NANOGRAPHENES
1. Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity: An Overview
2. Nanographenes by Top-Down Approach
3. Nanographenes by Bottom-up Approach: The Scholl Reaction
4. Chiral Molecular Nanographenes: the critical value of the racemization barrier
SYNTHESIS OF MOLECULAR NANOGRAPHENES
5. Synthesis of Helicenes
6. Synthesis of Nanographenes: The Annulative p-Extension (APEX) Approach
7. An Organic Chemistry Approach to Precise Synthesis of Curved Nanocarbons
8. Highly-strained Cyclophanes and other Nanographenes
9. Pi-Conjugated Molecular Nanorings: Synthesis and Properties
10. Chiral Bilayer Nanographenes: Synthesis and Properties
11. Large p-Extended Carbon Nanorings: From Synthesis to Properties
12. Synthesis of Some Challenging Molecular Carbons
13. Monkey Saddles and other Contorted Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds
14. Conjugated Nanohoops: Synthesis and Properties
15. Heteronanogrpahenes
16. On-surface Synthesis of 1D Nanographenes
17. Tailored Synthesis of Nanographenes
PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS OF MOLECULAR NANOGRAPHENES
18. Chiral Materials from Perylene Diimide Building Blocks: Twistacenes and Helicenes
19. Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL) in Nanographenes
20. Open-shell Nanographenes
21. Non-Kekulé and Kekulé Hydrocarbons
22. Redox Properties of Nanographenes
23. Supramolecular Assembly of Curved Carbon-Rich Molecules
About the author
Nazario Martín, Ph D, is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University Complutense of Madrid and Vice-Director of the Institute of Madrid for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience, Madrid, Spain. He also served as editor-in-chief for the RSC Publications Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C. He has published extensively on carbon nanostructures and related subjects, and his many awards and honours include the 2012 Alexander von Humboldt award.
Colin P. Nuckolls, Ph D, is Sheldon and Dorothea Professor of Materials Science at Columbia University, New York, USA, where he served as Department Chair from 2008-2011. He also serves as executive editor for the ACS Publications journal Nano Letters, and his wide research experience covers molecular synthesis, reaction chemistry, and many other subjects.
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