In 2010, scientists at the Institute of Chemistry achieved large-scale chemical synthesis, for the first time in the world, of a thin film they named “graphdiyne.”

This manmade substance has now become a new member of the carbon materials family.

Since then, the researchers have made a series of breakthroughs involving graphdiyne in the fields of catalysis, energy, photoelectronics, life science, information intelligence, and new modes of material conversion and transformation.