Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
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).
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).
Barua, S. R., Quanz, H., Olbrich, M., Schreiner, P. R., Trauner, D., Allen, W. D. Polytwistane Chemistry-a European Journal 20, 1638-1645 (2014).
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).
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).
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).
Xu, E. S., Lammert, P. E., Crespi, V. H. Systematic enumeration of sp3 nanothreads Nano Letters 15, 5124–5130 (2015).
See the Nanothread Bibliography for an extensive list of theory publications on nanothreads, beginning in 2015.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
Nobrega, M. M., Teixeira-Neto, E., Cairns, A. B., Temperini, M. L. A., Bini, R. One-dimensional diamondoid polyaniline-like nanothreads from compressed crystal aniline Chemical Science 9, 254-260 (2018).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).