Nanometre-sized polyaromatic hydrocarbons (nanographenes) have been largely explored as single-layer systems. Now a C64 nanographene comprising a planar core decorated with four terphenyl–imide moieties at its periphery has been shown to assemble with coronene to form bi- and trilayer host–guest complexes in solution, as well as tetra-, hexa- and multilayer stacks in the crystalline state.
- Magnus Mahl
- M. A. Niyas
- Frank Würthner
