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Weigold, S.; Brödner, K.; John, T.; Freudenberg, J.; Bunz, U. H. F.; Weil, T.; Fytas, G.; Müllen, K.: Self‐Assembly of Amphiphilic Polyphenylene Dendrimers with Different Surface Functionalization in Solvent/Non‐Solvent Mixtures. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 226 (6), 2400431 (2025)
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Liu, T.; Chen, Y.; Wang, X.; Di, Y.; Müllen, K.; Zhang, Z.; Wang, F.: Rare‐Earth Oxychlorides as Promoters of Ruthenium Toward High‐Performance Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Electrolyzers. Advanced Materials 37 (11), 2417621 (2025)
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Xuan, P.; Gong, J.; Fu, T.; Zhou, Y.; Qin, J.; Chen, H.; Wang, T.; Xue, G.; Peng, X.; Qian, Y. et al.: Helical Soft Robots with Magnetic and Photocatalytic Components for Water Remediation. Small 21 (11), 2412516 (2025)
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Liang, J.; Ju, C.; Liu, Z.; Li, H.; Karina, A.; Eklund, T.; Zheng, W.; Amann-Winkel, K.; Cai, W.; Wagner, M. et al.: Fluorescence of Helical Molecular Springs Under High Pressure. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202500923 (2025)
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Wang, Y.; Li, H.; Wang, L.; Gao, T.; Zhang, H.; Müllen, K.; Xie, M.; Goddard, W. A.; Chi, L.: Direct Synthesis of Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene on Au(111) Surfaces: Insights into Intramolecular Dehydrocyclization and Molecular Modification Strategies. ACS Catalysis 15 (5), pp. 3777 - 3788 (2025)
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Tao, X.; Tao, X.; Liu, Y.; Lu, R.; Liu, J.; Wang, H. I.; Yang, J.; Bonn, M.; Müllen, K.; Zhou, Y.: Phosphorus‐Enhanced Bimetallic Single‐Atom Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Energy Materials 15 (9), 2404167 (2025)
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Xiang, F.; Kinikar, A.; Mühlinghaus, M.; Bassi, N.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Müllen, K.; Fasel, R.; Ruffieux, P.: Enhancing Chemoselectivity of On-Surface Reactions on Reconstructed Au(110): The Case of a Pentalene-Bridged Polyacene Analogue. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (6), pp. 4930 - 4936 (2025)
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Guo, H.; Zhou, Y.; Chu, K.; Cao, X.; Qin, J.; Zhang, N.; Roeffaers, M. B. J.; Zbořil, R.; Hofkens, J.; Müllen, K. et al.: Improved Ammonia Synthesis and Energy Output from Zinc-Nitrate Batteries by Spin-State Regulation in Perovskite Oxides. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (4), pp. 3119 - 3128 (2025)
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Wang, L.; Liu, Y.; Xie, M.; Han, Y.; Chen, L.; Xue, R.; Li, H.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, D.; Zhong, Q. et al.: Highly Selective On‐Surface Dehydrogenative Aromatization of n‐Hexyl to Phenyl Substituents. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (5), e202417070 (2025)
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Gu, Y.; Xiang, F.; Liang, Y.; Bai, P.; Qiu, Z.; Chen, Q.; Narita, A.; Xie, Y.; Fasel, R.; Müllen, K.: A Poly(2,7‐anthrylene) withperi‐Fused Porphyrin Edges. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (4), e202417129 (2025)
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Recent publication highlights

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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.: 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.: 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.: 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 (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.: 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.: 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.: 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.: 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.: 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.: 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.: 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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