Carbon is one of the basic elements for life on Earth. It exists in diverse allotropic forms while
being different in chemical and physical properties. The best well-known natural allotropes …

Supramolecular chemistry uses non-covalent interactions to coax molecules into forming
ordered assemblies. The construction of ordered materials with these reversible bonds has …

Since the discovery of buckminsterfullerene over 30 years ago, sp2-hybridised carbon
nanomaterials (including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene) have stimulated new …

With the introduction of π-conjugated systems in electronic devices and the dream to arrive
at molecular electronics based on these systems, the detailed understanding of the …

1.1 Background Dendrimers and dendrons are architectural motifs synthesized by either
divergent or convergent iterative methods, and therefore, they provide monodisperse …

The formation of liquid crystals (LCs) is the most viable approach to produce macroscopic,
periodic self-assembled materials from oriented graphene sheets. Herein, we have …

Tremendous progress has been made on the design and processing of new active and
interfacial materials to enable organic photovoltaics to achieve high power conversion …

In the 21st century, soft materials will become more important as functional materials
because of their dynamic nature. Although soft materials are not as highly durable as hard …

Two-dimensional carbon, or graphene, is a semimetal that presents unusual low-energy
electronic excitations described in terms of Dirac fermions. We analyze in a self-consistent …

Liquid crystals are finding increasing applications in a wide variety of fields including liquid-
crystal display technology, materials science, bioscience, etc., apart from acting as prototype …