Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Surface functionalization with zwitterionic ligands for pH-induced assembly

Strained aromatic nanotubes made from resorcinarenes

Lattice misfit between layers induces helical growth

Asymmetric sheets with chiral voids rapidly distinguish enantiomeric mixtures

Large, donut-shaped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons synthesized and characterized

Bottom-up synthesis using a silver-assisted Ullmann polymerization

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Localized photoluminescence blinking in 2D nanostructures

Photo-pinacol coupling catalyzed by GaN nanowires