Many of today’s flexible electronic devices can trace their ancestry back to the first synthesis of linear polyacetylene in 1958. Now, researchers have used a highly active catalyst to create cyclic ...

The carbonaceous anode was the final important piece of the jigsaw for the first commercialized rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Its original inventor recounts how the search for a research subject ...

Fig. 2: Synthesis of a fluoroladderene monomer and a computational description of the fluoroladderene extension mechanism using a model system. Fig. 3: Synthesis of gold-coloured F-PA 18 and ...

Soliton descriptions for the conducting polymers polyacetylene—descriptions based around a type of solitary wave—caused great excitement when they first broke in the seminal reports by Su, Schrieffer, ...