Fully cove-edged bilayer nanographene with parallel displaced stacking

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This article reports the synthesis and characterization of a fully cove-edged bilayer nanographene featuring a parallel displaced stacking arrangement. The compound represents a structurally defined polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon system in which two nanographene layers are precisely oriented relative to one another, a configuration that influences the electronic and optical properties of the material. The cove-type edge structure, which introduces steric contortion, plays a key role in directing the interlayer stacking geometry.

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Precise control over the stacking geometry of layered carbon nanostructures is relevant to the development of organic electronic devices, including transistors and photovoltaic cells, where charge transport is sensitive to molecular packing. This work provides a bottom-up synthetic model for understanding structure-property relationships in graphene-based materials at the nanoscale.