What Can Topology Bring to Chemistry?

W Wang, S Zhou, X Yu, QH Guo, Y Ma, J Song… - CCS …, 2024 - chinesechemsoc.org
The unique mathematical perspectives and principal concepts of topology have not only
promoted the development of other branches of mathematics but have also deeply …

Carbon nanorings and nanobelts: material syntheses, molecular architectures, and applications

R Zhang, D An, J Zhu, X Lu, Y Liu - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon nanorings (CNRs) and carbon nanobelts (CNBs) of various sizes and innovative
molecular architectures have ushered improvement in research in recent years. This serves …

Synthesis of a Möbius carbon nanobelt

Y Segawa, T Watanabe, K Yamanoue, M Kuwayama… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Technologies for the creation of topological carbon nanostructures have greatly advanced
synthetic organic chemistry and materials science. Although simple molecular nanocarbons …

Synthesis and chiral resolution of a triply twisted Möbius carbon nanobelt

W Fan, TM Fukunaga, S Wu, Y Han, Q Zhou, J Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The atomically precise synthesis of topological molecular carbons such as Möbius carbon
nanobelts (MCNBs) is a challenge in synthetic organic chemistry because it requires careful …

Carbon nanobelts: brief history and perspective

D Imoto, A Yagi, K Itami - Precision Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are an emerging nanomaterial because of their outstanding
performance in various applications. In recent years, the segment molecules of CNTs …

Synthesis and chiral resolution of twisted carbon nanobelts

W Fan, T Matsuno, Y Han, X Wang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Twisted carbon nanobelts could display persistent chirality, which is desirable for material
applications, but their synthesis is very challenging. Herein, we report the successful …

Highly efficient charge transport across carbon nanobelts

J Lin, S Wang, F Zhang, B Yang, P Du, C Chen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Carbon nanobelts (CNBs) are a new form of nanocarbon that has promising applications in
optoelectronics due to their unique belt-shaped π-conjugated systems. Recent synthetic …

Synthesis of an all-carbon conjugated polymeric segment of carbon nanotubes and its application for lithium-ion batteries

S Wang, F Chen, G Zhuang, K Wei, T Chen, X Zhang… - Nano Research, 2023 - Springer
The synthesis and potential applications of nanocarbon materials have attracted much
attention in recent years. Herein, we report the design and synthesis of a novel all-carbon …

Synthesis, characterization, and resistive memory behaviors of highly strained cyclometalated platinum (II) nanohoops

Y Xu, MY Leung, L Yan, Z Chen, P Li… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Strained carbon nanohoops exhibit attractive photophysical properties due to their unique π-
conjugated structure. However, incorporation of such nanohoops into the pincer ligand of …

Highly strained oxygen‐doped chiral molecular belts of the zigzag‐type with strong circularly polarized luminescence

JH Chen, ZY Jiang, H **ao, S Tong… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Herein we report a two‐directional cyclization strategy for the synthesis of highly strained
depth‐expanded oxygen‐doped chiral molecular belts of the zigzag‐type. From the easily …