Roadmap on carbon molecular nanostructures in space

Hansen, Klavs, García-Hernández, D. A., Campbell, E. E. B., Erbahar, Dogan, Domaracka, Alicja, Jäger, Cornelia, Ewels, C., Umek, Polona, Peeters, E., Kwok, S., Cami, J., Sloan, Greg C., Ehrenfreund, P., Linnartz, H., Manchado, A., Cox, Nick L. J., Bernard-Salas, J., Campbell, E. K., Monreal-Ibero, A., Foing, B. H., Smoker, J., Elyajouri, M., Ebenbichler, A., van Loon, J. Th., Bouwman, J., Farhang, A., Salama, F., Joblin, C., Mulas, G., Jacovella, U., Gómez-Muñoz, M. A., Barzaga, R., Huertas-Roldán, T., Mohan, Hugh, Bartkowski, Michał, Giordani, Silvia, Hou, Gao-Lei, Díaz-Luis, J. J., Alcolea, J., Tafoya, D., Bujarrabal, V., Došlić, N., Došlić, T., Catalano, E., Yesiltas, M., Ferrari, P., Brünken, S., Berden, G., Bakker, J. M., Oomens, J., Redlich, B., Pitanti, A., Bertoni, B., Vicarelli, L., Lamberti, P., Cojocari, M., Fedorov, G., Svirko, Yu., Kuzhir, P., Hochlaf, M., Mogren al Mogren, M., Potapov, Alexey, Gezer, Eftal, Zettergren, H., Schmidt, H. T., Stockett, Mark H., Ashworth, Eleanor K., Bull, James N., Fárník, M., Wakabayashi, T., Ganner, L., Kappe, M., Gruber, E., Pardanaud, C., Dezalay, J., Noble, J. A., Tőkési, K., Zhou, X. H., Gong, J. M., Zeng, R. G., Ding, Z. J., Yang, Clayton S.-C., Jin, Feng, Trivedi, Sudhir, Hommerich, Uwe, Nemes, Laszlo, Samuels, Alan C., Shmavonyan, G., Misakyan, L., Shmavonyan, A., Sciriha, I., Suriyaprasanth, S., Gupta, Dhanoj, Kalchevski, D. A., Trifonov, D., Kolev, S., Milenov, T., Caro, Miguel A., Sadjadi, Seyedabdolreza, Parker, Quentin Andrew, Lombardi, A., McCoustra, Martin, Koch, F., Schubert, I., Trautmann, C., Toimil-Molares, M. E., Kerkeni, B., Talbi, D., Hsu, C. P., Ouerfelli, G., Chuang, H. H., Chuang, Ko-Ju, Chen, Yu-Jung, Villaver, E. and Manteiga, M. (2025) Roadmap on carbon molecular nanostructures in space. European Physical Journal D, 79. ISSN 1434-6060

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Abstract

In this roadmap article, we consider the main challenges and recent breakthroughs in understanding the role of carbon molecular nanostructures in space and propose future avenues of research. The focus lies on small carbon-containing molecules up to fullerenes, extending to even larger, more complex organic species. The roadmap contains forty contributions from scientists with leading expertize in observational astronomy, laboratory astrophysics/chemistry, astrobiology, theoretical chemistry, synthetic chemistry, molecular reaction dynamics, material science, spectroscopy, graph theory, and data science. The concerted interdisciplinary combination of the state-of-the-art of these astronomical, laboratory, and theoretical studies opens up new ways to advance the fundamental understanding of the physics and chemistry of cosmic carbon molecular nanostructures and touches on their wider relevance and impact in nanotechnology and catalysis.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Funding Information: The research is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft with grant JA 2107/10-1 (project No. 468269691). K.J.C. is grateful for support from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) via a VENI fellowship (VI.Veni.212.296). This work has also benefited from financial support from National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, under grant Nos. NSTC 110-2628-M-008-004-MY4 and NSTC 110-2923-M-008-004-MY3.
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Photonics and Quantum Science Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Light and Energy
Related URLs:	https://link.springer.com/10.1140/epjd/s...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2025 15:30
Last Modified:	10 Aug 2025 06:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100086
DOI:	10.1140/epjd/s10053-025-00984-1

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