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Xu, Q.; Li, Y.; Jin, Z.; Yu, X.; Cao, F.; Xue, S.; Liu, H.; Wagner, M.; Müllen, K.; Zhi, L.: Reducing Exciton Binding Energy in 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks by Decreasing Layer Planarity. Advanced Functional Materials 36 (16), e16937 (2026)
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Yin, Y.; Xu, F.; Wlazło, M.; Chen, Y.; Wen, G.; Velpula, G.; Böckmann, S.; Hansen, M. R.; De Feyter, S.; Mali, K. S. et al.; Liu, W.; Osella, S.; Bonn, M.; Wang, H. I.; Müllen, K.; Feng, X.; Mai, Y.: Porphyrin-Functionalized Graphene Nanoribbons in Solution Phase. Journal of the American Chemical Society 148 (5), pp. 5012 - 5021 (2026)
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Chen, Q.; Guizzardi, M.; Méndez, F.; Ju, C.; Keller, H. R.; Cerullo, G.; Osella, S.; Scotognella, F.; Paternò, G. M.; Müllen, K. et al.; Narita, A.: Diels-Alder reaction affords circumpyrene tetracarboxydiimide with excited state intramolecular charge transfer character. Communications Chemistry 9, 122 (2026)
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Li, X.; Jiang, M.; Chen, K.; Cai, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Luo, J.; Hou, L.; Zhou, Y.; Zhang, C.; Zhang, H. et al.; Lai, F.; Miao, Y.-E.; Liu, T.; Müllen, K.: Polyphenol-Gated Composite Electrolytes with Enhanced Cross-Phase Lithium-Ion Transport for Solid-State Lithium Batteries. Nano-Micro Letters 18, 279 (2026)
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Liang, J.; Ender, C. P.; Forero-Martinez, N. C.; Batatia, I.; Liu, J.; Yang, X.; Brouwer, R. G.; Kazak, L.; Blinder, R.; Cancellara, L. et al.; Tarakina, N. V.; Liu, yiz, Y.; Eklund, T.; Sinha, M.; Köster, S.; Bhat, S.; Rohmann, F.; Tangemann, A.; Gallo, K. L.; Berger, R.; Farla, R.; Kubanek, A.; Amann-Winkel, K.; Wagner, M.; Jelezko, F.; Müllen, K.; Csányi, G.; Cortes Huerto, R.; Wu, Y.; Weil, T.: Bottom-Up Synthesis of Molecular Nanodiamond from Nanographene. Nature (2026)
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Paul, S.; Yampolskyy, O.; Wu, Z.; Müllen, K.; Basché, T.: Singlet Fission among Two Single Molecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2026)
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Pradhan, S.; Panda, I.; Bhola, R. K.; Pucci, A.; Samal, S. K.; Müllen, K.; Hoogenboom, R.: Polymeric ionic liquids as antibacterial agents and contact killing substrates. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (2026)
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Zhang, J.-J.; Zhang, J.; Wen, G.; Osella, S.; Qiu, Z.; Böckmann, S.; Wang, X.; Maib, B.; Fu, Y.; Yu, X. et al.; Hansen, M. R.; Maultzsch, J.; Calame, M.; Perrin, M. L.; Wang, H. I.; Bonn, M.; Ma, J.; Müllen, K.; Feng, X.: Cyclophane-based shielding strategy for singly dispersed graphene nanoribbons. Nature Chemistry (2026)
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Hwang, J. H.; Bassi, N.; Fadel, M.; Braun, O.; Dumslaff, T.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Stiefel, M.; Furrer, R.; Hayashi, H.; Yamada, H. et al.; Narita, A.; Müllen, K.; Calame, M.; Perrin, M.; Fasel, R.; Ruffieux, P.; Meunier, V.; Barin, G. B.: Optimized Synthesis and Device Integration of Long 17-Atom-Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons. ACS Nano 19 (42), pp. 37230 - 37240 (2025)
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Xiang, F.; Gu, Y.; Kinikar, A.; Bassi, N.; Ortega-Guerrero, A.; Qiu, Z.; Gröning, O.; Ruffieux, P.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Müllen, K. et al.; Fasel, R.: Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions. Nature Chemistry 17, pp. 1356 - 1363 (2025)
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Recent publication highlights

Giovannantonio, M. D.; Eimre, K.; Yakutovich, A. V.; Chen, Q.; Mishra, S.; Urgel, J.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Ruffieux, P.; Muellen, K.; Narita, A. et al.; Fasel, ∥. R.: On-Surface Synthesis of Antiaromatic and Open-Shell Indeno[2,1- b]fluorene Polymers and Their Lateral Fusion into Porous Ribbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (31), pp. 12346 - 12354 (2019)
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Hu, Y.; Paternò, G. M.; Wang, X.-Y.; Wang, X.-C.; Guizzardi, M.; Chen, Q.; Schollmeyer, D.; Cao, X.-Y.; Cerullo, G.; Scotognella, F. et al.; Müllen, K.; Narita, A.: π‑Extended Pyrene-Fused Double [7]Carbohelicene as a Chiral Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (32), pp. 12797 - 12803 (2019)
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Wang, X.-Y.; Yao, X.; Narita, A.; Müllen, K.: Heteroatom-Doped Nanographenes with Structural Precision. Accounts of Chemical Research 52 (9), pp. 2491 - 2505 (2019)
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Xu, K.; Urgel, J. I.; Eimre, K.; Di Giovannantonio, M.; Keerthi, A.; Komber, H.; Wang, S.; Narita, A.; Berger, R.; Ruffieux, P. et al.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Liu, J.; Muellen, K.; Fasel, R.; Feng, X.: On-Surface Synthesis of a Nonplanar Porous Nanographene. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (19), pp. 7726 - 7730 (2019)
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Hou, I. C.-Y.; Diez-Cabanes, V.; Galanti, A.; Valášek, M.; Mayor, M.; Cornil, J.; Narita, A.; Samori, P.; Müllen, K.: Photomodulation of Two-Dimensional Self-Assembly of Azobenzene-Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene-Azobenzene Triads. Chemistry of Materials 31 (17), pp. 6979 - 6985 (2019)
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Zhong, Q.; Hu, Y.; Niu, K.; Zhang, H.; Yang, B.; Ebeling, D.; Tschakert, J.; Cheng, T.; Schirmeisen, A.; Narita, A. et al.; Müllen, K.; Chi, L.: Benzo-Fused Periacenes or Double Helicenes? Different Cyclodehydrogenation Pathways on Surface and in Solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (18), pp. 7399 - 7406 (2019)
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Yao, X.; Wang, X.-Y.; Simpson, C. D.; Paternó, G. M.; Guizzardi, M.; Wagner, M.; Cerullo, G.; Scotognella, F.; Watson, M. D.; Narita, A. et al.; Müllen, K.: Regioselective Hydrogenation of a 60-Carbon Nanographene Molecule toward a Circumbiphenyl Core. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (10), pp. 4230 - 4234 (2019)
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Groning, O.; Wang, S. Y.; Yao, X.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Barin, G. B.; Daniels, C.; Cupo, A.; Meunier, V.; Feng, X.; Narita, A. et al.; Müllen, K.; Ruffieux, P.; Fasel, R.: Engineering of robust topological quantum phases in graphene nanoribbons. Nature 560 (7717), pp. 209 - 213 (2018)
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Zhao, S.; Lavie, J.; Rondin, L.; Orcin-Chaix, L.; Diederichs, C.; Roussignol, P.; Chassagneux, Y.; Voisin, C.; Müllen, K.; Narita, A. et al.; Campidelli, S.; Lauret, J. S.: Single photon emission from graphene quantum dots at room temperature. Nature Communications 9, 3470 (2018)
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Hafez, H. A.; Kovalev, S.; Deinert, J. C.; Mics, Z.; Green, B.; Awari, N.; Chen, M.; Germanskiy, S.; Lehnert, U.; Teichert, J. et al.; Wang, Z.; Tielrooij, K. J.; Liu, Z.; Chen, Z.; Narita, A.; Müllen, K.; Bonn, M.; Gensch, M.; Turchinovich, D.: Extremely efficient terahertz high-harmonic generation in graphene by hot Dirac fermions. Nature 561 (7724), pp. 507 - 511 (2018)
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Limburg, B.; Thomas, J. O.; Holloway, G.; Sadeghi, H.; Sangtarash, S.; Hou, I. C.-Y.; Cremers, J.; Narita, A.; Muellen, K.; Lambert, C. J. et al.; Briggs, G. A. D.; Mol, J. A.; Anderson, H. L.: Anchor Groups for Graphene-Porphyrin Single-Molecule Transistors. Advanced Functional Materials 28 (45), 1803629 (2018)
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Wang, X.-Y.; Urgel, J. I.; Barin, G. B.; Eimre, K.; Di Giovannantonio, M.; Milani, A.; Tommasini, M.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Ruffieux, P.; Feng, X. et al.; Fasel, R.; Müllen, K.; Narita, A.: Bottom-Up Synthesis of Heteroatom-Doped Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (29), pp. 9104 - 9107 (2018)
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Chen, Q.; Brambilla, L.; Daukiya, L.; Mali, K. S.; De Feyter, S.; Tommasini, M.; Müllen, K.; Narita, A.: Synthesis of Triply Fused Porphyrin-Nanographene Conjugates. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (35), pp. 11233 - 11237 (2018)
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Dumslaff, B.; Wagner, M.; Schollmeyer, D.; Narita, A.; Müllen, K.: A Phenylene-Bridged Cyclohexa-meta-phenylene as Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Precursor. Chemistry – A European Journal 24 (46), pp. 11908 - 11910 (2018)
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