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 …

We summarize here the research advances on the reactivity of metal clusters. After a simple
introduction of apparatuses used for gas-phase cluster reactions, we focus on the reactivity …

Triangulene, the smallest triplet-ground-state polybenzenoid (also known as Clar's
hydrocarbon), has been an enigmatic molecule ever since its existence was first …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was introduced in 1986 and has since made its way into
surface science, nanoscience, chemistry, biology, and material science as an imaging and …

All-carbon materials based on sp 2-hybridized atoms, such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes
and graphene, have been much explored due to their remarkable physicochemical …

The zigzag-edged triangular graphene molecules (ZTGMs) have been predicted to host
ferromagnetically coupled edge states with the net spin scaling with the molecular size …

Controlling selectivity of reactions is an ongoing quest in chemistry. In this work, we
demonstrate reversible and selective bond formation and dissociation promoted by tip …

Inspired by the idea of combining conventional optical tweezers with plasmonic
nanostructures, a technique named plasmonic optical tweezers (POT) has been widely …

Nanographenes with zigzag edges are predicted to manifest non-trivial π-magnetism
resulting from the interplay of concurrent electronic effects, such as hybridization of localized …

Previously, asphaltene science had been hindered by many significant uncertainties
regarding molecular weight, molecular structure, and nanocolloidal characteristics in …