Explore the world's most powerful materials with nanographene research

Graphene, comprised of a single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb nanostructural arrangement, is the thinnest and strongest material yet known to science. Despite that this pristine carbon allotrope exhibits a variety of outstanding properties, its zero bandgap prevents its use for some optoelectronic applications. Fragments of graphene, or nanographenes, have shown a great potential to obviate these problems, thus paving the way for the development of chiroptical and optoelectronic properties.

Molecular Nanographenes constitutes a comprehensive overview on the synthesis of these materials and their properties. Covering their widely varying morphologies, their potential applications, and their valuable chiroptical and photophysical features, it also analyzes multiple approaches to obtain nanographene by using both top-down and bottom-up methodologies. The result is a one-stop shop for materials scientists and other researchers interested in these emergent and fascinating materials.

Molecular Nanographenes readers will also find:

• A careful distinction between top-down and bottom-up approaches to nanographene synthesis
• Detailed discussion of nanographene configurations including planar, bilayer, helical, nanobelt, and many other geometries
• An authorial team with pioneering research experience in the study of nano-sized graphenes and their synthesis

Molecular Nanographenes is ideal for materials scientists, polymer chemists, solid state chemists, organic chemists, and any other researchers looking to work with shape and size-controlled flakes of graphenes.

Nazario Martín, PhD, is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University Complutense of Madrid and Vice-Director of the Institute of Madrid for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience, Madrid, Spain. He also served as editor-in-chief for the RSC Publications Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C. He has published extensively on carbon nanostructures and related subjects, and his many awards and honours include the 2012 Alexander von Humboldt award.

Colin P. Nuckolls, PhD, is Sheldon and Dorothea Professor of Materials Science at Columbia University, New York, USA, where he served as Department Chair from 2008-2011. He also serves as executive editor for the ACS Publications journal NanoLetters, and his wide research experience covers molecular synthesis, reaction chemistry, and many other subjects.