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Volume 19 Issue 8, August 2020

Dirac cones in 2D π-conjugated polymers

Optimized Ullmann coupling reaction of heterotriangulene precursors allows the synthesis of two-dimensional π-conjugated polymers, with ordered domains larger than 100 × 100 nm2 showing both Dirac cones and flat bands in their electronic structure.

See Galeotti et al. and Jing and Heine

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