Bowl-shaped Carbon Skeleton

Stress-tunable curvature

The curvature and electronic structure of bowl-shaped carbon skeletons can be continuously tuned by applying in-plane stress, a capability beyond traditional chemical approaches.

Qiu, Ziyang · Zhao, Xiang · Dang, Jingshuang

New Journal of Chemistry 2023

Advantages

Curvature and flattening process of buckybowls can be controlled by external force

Electronic structures of buckybowls can be controlled by external force

Dynamic concave-convex flipping of buckybowls can be controlled by external force

Curved-π host-guest interactions of buckybowls can be controlled by external force