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Nanographenes do the twist

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A nanographene compound incorporating five- and seven-membered rings is found to have a highly distorted non-planar structure and serves as a model system for studying the effect of defects in graphene sheets.

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Figure 1: The synthesis of a distorted nanographene and its comparison to a defective graphene sheet.

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King, B. Nanographenes do the twist. Nature Chem 5, 730–731 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1732

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