journal article·2025-10

Molecular engineering of buckybowl trichalcogenasumanene toward centimeter-sized organic single-crystal arrays and devices

Hongsong Liu, Xinzi Tian, Shitao Wang, Cong Zhang, Guangxin Sun, Cheng Jiang, Beibei Fu, Ziyang Zhang, Xiangfeng Shao, Rongjin Li

Science China Materials· Volume 68· Issue 10
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