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Graphenes — Aromatic giants

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Recently, extremely large benzenoid hydrocarbons have been synthesized. These compounds resemble graphite in many ways, and have been named graphenes. Because of their nonstandard properties, graphenes have already found numerous applications, especially as special-purpose materials in electronics. In this article we outline the basic chemical facts on graphenes.

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  1. Faculty of Scienc, University of Kragujevac, 34000, Kragujevac, P. O. Box 60, Serbia

    Ivan Gutman & Boris Furtula

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  1. Ivan Gutman
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Ivan Gutman is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Kragujevac, Serbia. Among his interests are mathematical methods in chemistry and the theory of polycyclic aromatic compounds.

Boris Furtula is secretary of the journal ‘MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry’.

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Gutman, I., Furtula, B. Graphenes — Aromatic giants. Reson 16, 1238–1245 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-011-0139-4

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