Date of Award

1-1-2020

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Chemistry

Content Description

1 online resource (xxxi, 312 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Marina A Petrukhina

Committee Members

Evgeny V Dikarev, Jeremy I Feldblyum, Jia Sheng, Paul J Toscano

Keywords

Carbon Bowls, Chemical Reduction, Helicenes, Molecular Nanocarbons, Nanohoops, Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction, Carbon nanotubes, Graphene, Fullerenes, Reduction (Chemistry)

Subject Categories

Chemistry

Abstract

Molecular nanocarbons, which can be considered as fragments of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, or graphene, have stimulated the rapid development of carbon chemistry at the molecular level in recent decades. Molecular nanocarbons possess not only outstanding chemical and physical properties stemming from their parent carbon allotropes, but also present such unique features as controllable and scalable synthetic conditions, defined molecular compositions, uniform size, and relatively good solubility. These advances of molecular nanocarbons over conventional carbonaceous materials give rise to the development of such applications as electron transfer, energy transport and storage. However, future progress of these technologically-important fields requires a superior understanding of electron transfer processes of novel molecular nanocarbon materials and that knowledge is currently missing.

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