The first articles of the thematic issue “Carbon-rich materials: from #polyaromatic molecules to #fullerenes & other #carbon #allotropes” edited by Hiroko Yamada, Kyoto University, and Yoko Yamakoshi, ETH Zürich, in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry are online https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/series/125/?M=y