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GRAPHENE NANOSTRUCTURES: Bottom-Up Approach

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a) SUBSTITUTED POLYAROMATICS to be used as building blocks in the preparation of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) of graphene quantum dots (GQDs).
b) WELL-DEFINED NANOSIZED GRAPHENES obtained by solution chemistry: homogeneous, different sizes, peripheries and substitution.

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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SUBSTITUTED POLYAROMATICSto be used as building blocks in the preparation of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) of graphene quantum dots (GQDs). These designed monomers have shown to be useful for the on-surface preparation of GNRs with diverse widths and lengths.

  1. “Bottom-up synthesis of multifunctional nanoporous graphene”. Science 2018, 360, 199.
  2. "Doping of Graphene Nanoribbons via Functional Group Edge Modification". ACS Nano 2017, 11, 7355−7361.
  3. "Substrate-Independent Growth of Atomically Precise Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons". ACS Nano 2016, 10, 9000.

WELL-DEFINED NANOSIZED GRAPHENES obtained by solution chemistry. We can access homogeneous nanographenes with different sizes, peripheries and substitution. These graphene materials can be particularly interesting for molecular optoelectronic applications.

a) "From Perylene to a 22-Ring Aromatic Hydrocarbon in One-Pot". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 9004.

Related keywords

  • Nanomaterials
  • Physical Sciences and Exact Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Graphene

About Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Technology Transfer Office from Spain

The CiQUS (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), addresses challenges in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry, New functional Materials and Synthetic Technologies for Sustainable Development.

CiQUS hosts 20 research groups, including 5 ERC projects.
> 90-100 papers/yr, average Impact Factor IF=7,10 JCR. 82%Q1, 45%D1 (2016-2017).
> 2014-2017: 4,70 M €/yr from competitive R&D funds (27% international, 18% private), 16 patents, 2 licenses, 3 spin-offs.

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