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Organic analogues of graphene

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Chemists have long aspired to synthesize two-dimensional polymers that are fully conjugated — an attribute that imparts potentially useful properties. Just such a material has been prepared using a solid-state polymerization reaction.

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Figure 1: Synthesis of a two-dimensional conjugated aromatic polymer.

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