Recent advances in supramolecular fullerene chemistry

X Chang, Y Xu, M von Delius - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerene chemistry has come a long way since 1990, when the first bulk production of C60
was reported. In the past decade, progress in supramolecular chemistry has opened some …

Molecular carbon imides

W Jiang, Z Wang - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
The creation and development of new forms of nanocarbons have fundamentally
transformed the scientific landscape in the past three decades. As new members of the …

Independent gradient model based on Hirshfeld partition: A new method for visual study of interactions in chemical systems

T Lu, Q Chen - Journal of computational chemistry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The powerful independent gradient model (IGM) method has been increasingly popular in
visual analysis of intramolecular and intermolecular interactions in recent years. However …

Biphenylene network: A nonbenzenoid carbon allotrope

Q Fan, L Yan, MW Tripp, O Krejčí, S Dimosthenous… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The quest for planar sp2-hybridized carbon allotropes other than graphene, such as
graphenylene and biphenylene networks, has stimulated substantial research efforts …

An sp-hybridized all-carboatomic ring, cyclo [18] carbon: Electronic structure, electronic spectrum, and optical nonlinearity

Z Liu, T Lu, Q Chen - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
The electronic spectrum and optical nonlinearity of the sp-hybridized cyclo [18] carbon with
novel topology are studied by means of (time-dependent) density functional theory …

Intermolecular interaction characteristics of the all-carboatomic ring, cyclo [18] carbon: Focusing on molecular adsorption and stacking

Z Liu, T Lu, Q Chen - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, an intriguing all-carboatomic ring, cyclo [18] carbon, was observed in the
condensed phase for the first time, and it quickly attracted widespread attention. In this …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Synthesis of γ-graphyne using dynamic covalent chemistry

Y Hu, C Wu, Q Pan, Y **, R Lyu, V Martinez… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most attempts to synthesize graphynes are limited to using irreversible coupling reactions,
which often result in the formation of nanometre-scale materials that lack long-range order …

Simple, efficient, and universal energy decomposition analysis method based on dispersion-corrected density functional theory

T Lu, Q Chen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023 - ACS Publications
Energy decomposition analysis (EDA) is an important class of methods to explore the nature
of interaction between fragments in a chemical system. It can decompose the interaction …

Potential optical molecular switch: Lithium@ cyclo [18] carbon complex transforming between two stable configurations

Z Liu, X Wang, T Lu, A Yuan, X Yan - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Do** alkali metal atoms, especially lithium (Li), in nanocarbon materials has always been
considered to be one of the most effective methods to improve the optical properties of the …

On-surface synthesis of a doubly anti-aromatic carbon allotrope

Y Gao, F Albrecht, I Rončević, I Ettedgui, P Kumar… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Synthetic carbon allotropes such as graphene, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes have
revolutionized materials science and led to new technologies. Many hypothetical carbon …