HG	Host–guest
LS	Liquid-solid
Sulflower	Termed after (1, C16S8), a planar D8h-symmetric octathio[8]circulene named from sulfur, and sunflower is the first fully heterocyclic circulene
ISA	Isophthalic acid
D	diameter
TA	Terephthalic acid
vdW	van der Waals
BTrB	A homologue of TMA was attained by inserting phenylethyne spacer between phenyl rings and carboxyl clusters
TCBPB	Has a biphenyl linker between the central phenyl ring and the carboxylic groups
DBA	Twelve-membered phenylene-ethynylene macrocycle called dehydrobenzo[12]annulene (DBA), substituted by six flexible alkoxy chains self-assembled to form hexagonal porous 2D molecular networks via van der Waals interactions between interdigitated alkyl chains as directional intermolecular linkages
NC-Phn-CN	Dicarbo nitrile polyphenylenes
SOF	Supramolecular organic frameworks
HBN	Hexagonal boron nitride
COR	Coronene
QPTC	Quaterphenyl tetracarboxylic acid
TPTC	P-terphenyl-3,5,300,500-tetracarboxylic acid
NG	Nanographene
DBA-OC10	2-decanol, alkoxyalted dehydrobenzo annulene (DBA) derivative, (DBAs with longer alkoxy chains)
CW	Clockwise
CCW	Counterclockwise
NN4A	Bis(3,5-diacidic)diazobenzene
TCDB	1,3,5-tris(10-carboxy-decyl oxy)-benzene
BDBA	Benzenediboronic acid
I t	Tunneling Current
H	Hydrogen
a	Achiral
c	Chiral