Computational Study of Planar Clusters and Materials

Dear Colleagues,

The plane is beautiful! Clusters and materials with unique planar structures often have novel properties and potential application prospects which attract great attention from theoretical and experimental researchers. Plane chemistry has become one of the hot topics of today. The discovery of the Kekule structure of benzene molecules in 1865 spiked the interest of chemists in planar aromatic organic molecules. In 1970, Hoffmann proposed the concept of “planar tetracoordinate carbon”, which became the foundation of planar hypercoordination chemistry. Based on photoelectron spectroscopy experiments, Lai-Sheng Wang et al. confirmed that the boron clusters within 40 atoms possess mainly planar or quasi-planar structures. The discovery of single-layer graphene in 2004 gave new impetus to the study of planar materials. The theoretical study of the structures, stabilities, bonding, aromaticity, spectral properties, and adsorption properties of planar clusters and materials is of great significance for chemistry and materials science.

Planar structures contain too many mysteries, and we need to uncover them one by one! The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a platform to present the latest research on planar clusters and materials.

Prof. Dr. Jinchang Guo
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Molecules is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• planar cluster
• chemical bonding
• planar material
• aromaticity
• stability
• adsorptive property