Molecular Nanographenes

Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

Nazario Martin, Colin P. Nuckolls

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9783527353224
• eBook ISBN: 9783527844999
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Physical & Theoretical Chemistry
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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 contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity in Nanographenes: An Overview
• Chapter 2 Covalent Patterned Functionalization of Graphene
• Chapter 3 Nanographenes by Bottom‐up Approach: The Scholl Reaction
• Chapter 4 Racemization Barriers in Chiral Molecular Nanographenes
• Chapter 5 Synthesis of Helicenes
• Chapter 6 Carbon Nanobelt History and Chemistry
• Chapter 7 Negatively Curved Nanographenes
• Chapter 8 From PAH‐based Cyclophanes to Nanographenophanes
• Chapter 9 Bilayer and Multilayer Nanographenes: Synthesis and Properties
• Chapter 10 Large π‐Extended Carbon Nanorings: From Syntheses to Properties
• Chapter 11 Nanographenes with Multiple Zigzag Edges
• Chapter 12 Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons, Nanographenes, and Fused Aromatic Networks Through the Formation of Pyrazine Rings
• Chapter 13 Conjugated Nanohoops: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
• Chapter 14 Chiral Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds with Monkey Saddle Topologies
• Chapter 15 On‐Surface Synthesis of π‐Conjugated Polymers
• Chapter 16 Merging Organic Chemistry with Surface Science for the Preparation of Nanographenes
• Chapter 17 Chiral Materials from Twistacenes and Helicenes
• Chapter 18 Nanographene Diradicals
• Chapter 19 Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL) in Nanographenes
• Chapter 20 Redox Properties of Nanographenes
• Chapter 21 Kekulé and Non‐Kekulé Nanographenes: A Magnetic Perspective
• Index
• EULA