Chemists have tried to synthesize carbon nanobelts for more than 60 years, but none have succeeded until now. A team at Nagoya University reported the first organic synthesis of a carbon nanobelt in Science. Carbon nanobelts are expected to serve as a useful template for building carbon nanotubes and open a new field of nanocarbon science.
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JST ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Project
Journal Information
Guillaume Povie, Yasutomo Segawa, Taishi Nishihara, Yuhei Miyauchi and Kenichiro Itami, “Synthesis of a carbon nanobelt”. Science, Published online 14 April 2017, doi: 10.1126/science.aam8158.
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Kenichiro Itami, Ph.D.
Research Director, ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Project
Director, Institute of Transformative Bio-molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
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Takeshi Ohyama
Department of Research Project , JST
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