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Carbon origami

A reaction that folds up large aromatic molecules and fixes them into bowl shapes expands opportunities for making nanometre-scale objects from single sheets of carbon. Such objects have potential applications in electronics.

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Figure 1: Bent into shape.

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Siegel, J. Carbon origami. Nature 486, 327–328 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/486327a

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