Acknowledgement

The authors thank D. Giribone for his treasured help throughout the improvement of the brand new process totally based mostly on HPLC capable of automatize the focus, separation, and assortment of size-selected polyynes. The authors acknowledge funding from the European Analysis Council (ERC) underneath the European Union’s Horizon 2020 analysis and innovation program ERC-Consolidator Grant (ERC CoG 2016 EspLORE grant settlement No. 724610, web site: www.esplore.polimi.it).

CRediT authorship contribution assertion

S. Peggiani: Writing-Unique Draft, Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Investigation, Writing-Overview & Enhancing, Visualization. A Facibeni: Conceptualization, Sources, Writing-Overview & Enhancing. P. Marabotti: Methodology, Writing-Overview & Enhancing, Validation. A. Vidale: Validation, Visualization, Writing-Overview & Enhancing. S. Scotti: Methodology, Writing-Overview & Enhancing, Validation. C.S. Casari: Conceptualization, Validation, Writing e evaluate & enhancing, Supervision, Undertaking administration, Funding acquisition.