Atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing (ACSM) represents techniques for
manufacturing high-end products in various fields, including future-generation computing …

Acenes, consisting of linearly fused benzene rings, are an important fundamental class of
organic compounds with various applications. Hexacene is the largest acene that was …

Ferroelectric materials are fascinating for their non-volatile switchable electric polarizations
induced by the spontaneous inversion-symmetry breaking. However, in all of the …

Carbon allotropes built from rings of two-coordinate atoms, known as cyclo [n] carbons, have
fascinated chemists for many years, but until now they could not be isolated or structurally …

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 …

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 …

Various two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotropes with nonalternant topologies, such as
pentaheptites and phagraphene, have been proposed. Predictions indicate that these …

We show that the different bond orders of individual carbon-carbon bonds in polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons and fullerenes can be distinguished by noncontact atomic force …

Control of magnetism on the atomic scale is becoming essential as data storage devices are
miniaturized. We show that antiferromagnetic nanostructures, composed of just a few Fe …

The early stages of soot formation, namely inception and growth, are highly debated and
central to many ongoing studies in combustion research. Here, we provide new insights into …