ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Nanoscale Aromaticity and Supramolecular Electronic Materials
ARO-MAT will target emergent cooperative electronic and magnetic phenomena in molecules with dimensions of 5–25 nm (i.e. as big as many proteins). The project will develop supramolecular architectures with large pi-systems and well-defined geometries, in which the frontier orbitals coherently delocalize charge over the whole nanostructure. Aromaticity is a key emergent phenomenon; it can be defined as the ability of a cyclic molecule to sustain a ring current when placed in a magnetic field. Until recently, it was thought that aromaticity is restricted to small molecules, with circuits of less than about 22 pi-electrons. Anderson has shown that circuits of more than 160 pi-electrons…
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