See also the Nanothread Bibliography. Publications 18 onwards are post-award of CCI.

  1. Chen, B, Crespi, V. H. and Hoffmann, R. Theoretical studies of furan and thiophene nanothreads: structures, cycloaddition barriers and activation volumes. ChemRxiv. Preprint.(2021)
  2. Matsuura, B., Huss, S., Zheng, Z., Yuan, S., Wang, T.,  Chen, B., Badding, J. V.,  Trauner, D., Elacqua, E.,  van Duin, A.C.T.,  Crespi, V. H. and Schmidt-Rohr, K. Perfect and Defective 13C-Furan-Derived Nanothreads from Modest-Pressure Synthesis Analyzed by 13C NMR. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2021).
  3. Huss, S., Wu, S., Chen, B., Wang, T., Gerthoffer, M. C., Ryan, D. J., Smith, S. E., Crespi, V. H., Badding, J. V. and Elacqua, E. Scalable Synthesis of Crystalline One-Dimensional Carbon Nanothreads Through Modest-Pressure Polymerization of Furan. ACS Nano, 15, 3, 4134–4143 (2021).
  4. Gerthoffer, M. C., Wu, S., Chen, B., Wang, T., Huss, S., Oburn, S. M., Crespi, V. H., Badding, J. V. and Elacqua, E. ‘Sacrificial’ Supramolecular Assembly and Pressure-induced Polymerization: Toward Sequence-defined Functionalized Nanothreads. Chemical Science, 11(42), 11419-11424 (2020).
  5. Huang, H.T., Zhu, L., Ward, M.D., Wang, T., Chen, B., Chaloux, B.L., Wang, Q., Biswas, A., Gray, J.L., Kuei, B., Cody, G.D., Epshteyn, A., Crespi, V.H., Badding, J.V. and Strobel, T.A. Nanoarchitecture through Strained Molecules: Cubane-derived Scaffolds and the Smallest Carbon Nanothreads. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142 (42), 17944-17955 (2020).
  6. Biswas, A., Ward, M.D., Wang, T., Zhu, L., Huang, H.T., Badding, J.V., Crespi, V.H. and Strobel, T.A. Evidence for Orientational Order in Nanothreads Derived from Thiophene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10(22), 7164-7171 (2019).
  7. Juhl, S. J., Wang, T., Vermilyea, B., Li, X., Crespi, V. H., Badding, J. V., Alem, N. Local Structure and Bonding of Carbon Nanothreads Probed by High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(17), 6937-6945 (2019).
  8. Wang, T., Duan, P., Xu, E.-S., Vermilyea, B., Chen, B., Li, X., Badding, J. V., Schmidt-Rohr, K., Crespi, V. H. Constraining Carbon Nanothread Structures by Experimental and Calculated Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra Nano Letters 18, 4934-4942 (2018).
  9. Li, X., Wang, T., Duan, P., Baldini, M., Huang, H. T., Chen, B., Juhl, S. J., Koeplinger, D., Crespi, V. H., Schmidt-Rohr, K., Hoffmann, R., Alem, N., Guthrie, M., Zhang, X., Badding, J. V. Carbon Nitride Nanothread Crystals Derived from Pyridine Journal of the American Chemical Society 140, 4969-4972 (2018).
  10. Duan, P., Li, X., Wang, T., Chen, B., Juhl, S. J., Koeplinger, D., Crespi, V. H., Badding, J. V., Schmidt-Rohr, K. The Chemical Structure of Carbon Nanothreads Analyzed by Advanced Solid-State NMR Journal of the American Chemical Society 140, 7658-7666 (2018).
  11. Chen, B., Wang, T., Crespi, V. H., Li, X., Badding, J., Hoffmann, R. All the Ways To Have Substituted Nanothreads Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 14, 1131-1140 (2018).
  12. Li, X., Baldini, M., Wang, T., Chen, B., Xu, E.-S., Vermilyea, B., Crespi, V. H., Hoffmann, R., Molaison, J. J., Tulk, C. A., Malcolm, Guthrie, Sinogeikin, S., Badding, J. V. Mechanochemical Synthesis of Carbon Nanothread Single Crystals Journal of the American Chemical Society 139, 16343–16349 (2017).
  13. Chen, B., Hoffmann, R., Cammi, R. The Effect of Pressure on Organic Reactions in Fluids—a New Theoretical Perspective Angewante Chemie, International Edition 11126-11142 (2017).
  14. Juhl, S., Li, X., Badding, J., Alem, N. Monochromated Low-Dose Aberration-Corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy of Diamondoid Carbon Nanothreads Microscopy and Microanalysis 22, 1840-1841 (2016).
  15. Xu, E. S., Lammert, P. E., Crespi, V. H. Systematic enumeration of sp3 nanothreads Nano Letters 15, 5124–5130 (2015).
  16. Olbrich, M., Mayer, P., Trauner, D. Synthetic studies toward polytwistane hydrocarbon nanorods Journal of Organic Chemistry 80, 2042–2055 (2015).
  17. Maryasin, B., Olbrich, M., Trauner, D., Ochsenfeld, C. Calculated nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of polytwistane and related hydrocarbon nanorods Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 11, 1020–1026 (2015).
  18. Fitzgibbons, T. C., Guthrie, M., Xu, E. S., Crespi, V. H., Davidowski, S. K., Cody, G. D., Alem, N., Badding, J. V. Benzene-derived carbon nanothreads Nature Materials 14, 43–47 (2015).
  19. Chen, B., Hoffmann, R., Ashcroft, N. W., Badding, J., Xu, E. S., Crespi, V. Linearly polymerized benzene arrays as intermediates, tracing pathways to carbon nanothreads Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, 14373–14386 (2015).
  20. Badding, J. V., Crespi, V. H. Synthesizing Carbon Nanothreads from Benzene SPIE Newsroom (2015).
  21. Olbrich, M., Mayer, P., Trauner, D. A step toward polytwistane: synthesis and characterization of C-2-symmetric tritwistane Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 12, 108-112 (2014).
  22. Barua, S. R., Quanz, H., Olbrich, M., Schreiner, P. R., Trauner, D., Allen, W. D. Polytwistane Chemistry-a European Journal 20, 1638-1645 (2014).
  23. Wen, X. D., Hoffmann, R., Ashcroft, N. W. Benzene under high pressure: a story of molecular crystals transforming to saturated networks, with a possible intermediate metallic phase Journal of the American Chemical Society 133, 9023–9035 (2011).
  24. Stojkovic, D., Zhang, P. H., Crespi, V. H. Smallest nanotube: Breaking the symmetry of sp3 bonds in tubular geometries Physical Review Letters 87, 125502 (2001).
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