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Reversible gating of singlet fission by tuning the role of a charge-transfer state
In: Nature Communications 16 (2025), Article No.: 2968
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58168-9 - , , , , :
Intramolecular Down- and Up-Conversion in Dimeric Tetracene Complexes Centered via Platinum(II) and Palladium(II)
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2025)
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202426055 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Helically Chiral Mixed-Valence Systems Comprising N-Heterotriangulenes: Stabilization of the Cationic Species by π-Expansion
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025)
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202423516 - , , , , , , :
Deciphering the Energy Transfer Mechanism Across Metal Halide Perovskite-Phthalocyanine Interfaces
In: Advanced Science (2025)
ISSN: 2198-3844
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202414831 - , , , , , , , , :
Tuning Charge-Separated State Lifetimes in Perovskite Nanocrystal-Perylenediimide Hybrids
In: Advanced Optical Materials 13 (2025), Article No.: e01175
ISSN: 2195-1071
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202501175 - , , , , , , , , :
Intramolecular Singlet Fission in Individual Graphene Nanoribbons─Competition with a Charge Transfer
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025)
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c18051 - , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Stimuli-Responsive Electronic Reconfiguration in Benzo(ghi)perylene-TCNQ Donor–Acceptor Crystalline Networks
In: Chemistry of Materials 37 (2025), p. 6932-6942
ISSN: 1520-5002
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01859 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Improving Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation via Polycitric Acid-based Carbon Nanodots
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025)
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202418626 - , , , , , , :
From Triplet to Twist: The Photochemical E/Z‐Isomerization Pathway of the Near‐Infrared Photoswitch peri‐Anthracenethioindigo
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025), Article No.: e202510626
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202510626 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Achieving High Fill Factor via Increasing Interfacial Disorder to Inhibit Bimolecular Recombination for Efficient Organic Solar Cells
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025)
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202505722 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Solution ALD of (CH3NH3)(PbI3) Perovskite Thin Films Yields Functional Quality and Stability Superior to Classical Processing
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025), Article No.: e13903
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202513903 - , , , , , , :
High-pressure pump–probe experiments reveal the mechanism of excited-state proton-coupled electron transfer and a shift from stepwise to concerted pathways
In: Nature Chemistry (2025)
ISSN: 1755-4330
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01772-5 - , , , , , , :
Publisher Correction: High-pressure pump–probe experiments reveal the mechanism of excited-state proton-coupled electron transfer and a shift from stepwise to concerted pathways (Nature Chemistry, (2025), 10.1038/s41557-025-01772-5)
In: Nature Chemistry (2025)
ISSN: 1755-4330
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01812-0 - , , , , , , , , , , :
Morphological and Electronic Control of Interfacial Charge Transfer in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Hybrids
In: ACS nano 19 (2025), p. 28576-28587
ISSN: 1936-0851
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c07850 - , , , , , , , , , :
Conformational Locking of the Geometry in Photoluminescent Cyclometalated N^C^N Ni(II) Complexes
In: Molecules 30 (2025), Article No.: 1901
ISSN: 1420-3049
DOI: 10.3390/molecules30091901 - , , , , , , , :
A helical porphyrin-nanographene with an extended aromatic network
In: Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 29 (2025), p. 502-511
ISSN: 1088-4246
DOI: 10.1142/S1088424625500440 - , , , , , , , , , :
Nanohoops Favour Light-Induced Energy Transfer over Charge Separation in Porphyrin/[10]CPP/Fullerene Rotaxanes
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (2025), Article No.: e202413404
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202413404 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Interplay between Through-Space and Through-Bond Electronic Coupling in Singlet Fission
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (2025), p. 32124-32144
ISSN: 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c10672 - , , , , , , , , , :
Excited State Dynamics of Odd [n]Cumulenes: Chain Length and Conformational Effects
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (2025), p. 21419-21431
ISSN: 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c00147 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Enhanced Photothermal Conversion through 2D/0D Nano-Heterojunction Engineering for Highly Efficient Solar Desalination
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025)
ISSN: 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c07491 - , , , , , , :
Asymmetric Acceptor Featuring Fused-Imidazole Central Core Enabling Organic Solar Cells with 19.4% Efficiency
In: Advanced Energy Materials (2025), Article No.: 2500332
ISSN: 1614-6832
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202500332
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Synthetic Strategies for the Selective Functionalization of Carbon Nanodots Allow Optically Communicating Suprastructures
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 63 (2024), Article No.: e202316915
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202316915 - , , , , , , , , :
Laterally π-Extensed Nitrogen-Doped Molecular Nanographenes – From Anti-Kasha Emission to Ping-Pong Energy Transfer Events
In: Advanced Energy Materials (2024)
ISSN: 1614-6832
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202401529 - , , , , , :
Tuning the Absorption, Fluorescence, Intramolecular Charge Transfer, and Intersystem Crossing in Spiro[fluorene]acridinone
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 63 (2024), Article No.: e202313936
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202313936 - , , , , , , , , , , :
Deep-Saddle-Shaped Nanographene Induced by Four Heptagons: Efficient Synthesis and Properties
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024)
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c09224 - , , , , , , , , , :
Alteration of the Optoelectronic Properties of CuInS2 Quantum Dots via Colloidal Annealing
In: Crystal Growth and Design (2024)
ISSN: 1528-7483
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.4c00150 - , , , , , , :
Controlling Interchromophore Coupling in Diamantane-Linked Pentacene Dimers To Create a “Binary” Pair
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024)
ISSN: 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c01507 - , , , , , , , , , , , :
Intramolecular Triplet Diffusion Facilitates Triplet Dissociation in a Pentacene Hexamer
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 63 (2024), Article No.: e202315064
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202315064 - , , , , , :
Molecular Acenes for Light Capture, Conversion, and Storage
In: Accounts of Materials Research (2024)
ISSN: 2643-6728
DOI: 10.1021/accountsmr.4c00305 - , , , , , :
Long-Lived Charge Carrier Photogeneration in a Cooperative Supramolecular Double-Cable Polymer
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024)
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c09637 - , , , , , , , , , , , :
A digital twin to overcome long-time challenges in photovoltaics
In: Joule 8 (2024), p. 1-17
ISSN: 2542-4351
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2023.12.010 - , , , , , , , , , :
Fused Hexabenzocoronene-Porphyrin Conjugates with Tailorable Excited-State Lifetimes
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 63 (2024), Article No.: e202409363
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202409363 - , , , , :
Tuning Interactions to Control Molecular Down Conversion in [2.2]Paracyclophane Bridged Oligo-Tetracenes
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2024)
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202313576 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Inverse design workflow discovers hole-transport materials tailored for perovskite solar cells
In: Science 386 (2024), p. 1256-1264
ISSN: 0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.ads0901 - , , , , , :
Designing carbon dots for enhanced photo-catalysis: Challenges and opportunities
In: Chem 10 (2024), p. 2700-2723
ISSN: 2451-9308
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2024.07.018 - , , , , , , , , , :
Tartaric acid-derived chiral carbon nanodots for catalytic enantioselective ring-opening reactions of styrene oxide
In: Chemical Communications 60 (2024), p. 10382-10385
ISSN: 1359-7345
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc04119d
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Towards understanding the competition of electron and energy transfer in “molecular” nanographenes on the example of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene
In: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C-Photochemistry Reviews 56 (2023), Article No.: 100602
ISSN: 1389-5567
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2023.100602 - , , , , , , :
One-Pot Synthesis and Excited-State Dynamics of Null Exciton-Coupled Diketopyrrolopyrroles Oligo-Grids
In: Advanced Materials (2023)
ISSN: 0935-9648
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202302664 - , , , , , , , :
Tetracene Dimers: A Platform for Intramolecular Down- and Up-conversion
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 (2023), p. 18260-18275
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c02417 - , , , , , , , , , , , :
Interfullerene Electronic Interactions and Excited-State Dynamics in Fullerene Dumbbell Conjugates
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 (2023), p. 14190-14195
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c03486 - , , , , , , :
Synthesis, physicochemical properties and theoretical calculations of a subphthalocyanine peripherally substituted by multiple anthryl-ethynyl-aniline moieties
In: Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 27 (2023), p. 1562-1572
ISSN: 1088-4246
DOI: 10.1142/S1088424623501201 - , , , , , , , , , , , :
Sensitized Singlet Fission in Rigidly Linked Axial and Peripheral Pentacene-Subphthalocyanine Conjugates
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 (2023), p. 9548-9563
ISSN: 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c13353 - , , , , , , , :
Catalyzing Singlet Fission by Transition Metals: Second versus Third Row Effects
In: Precision Chemistry 1 (2023), p. 555-564
ISSN: 2771-9316
DOI: 10.1021/prechem.3c00082 - , , , , , :
Photophysical characterization of a ruthenium-based tetrameric pentacene complex
In: Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 27 (2023), p. 686-693
ISSN: 1088-4246
DOI: 10.1142/S1088424623500645 - , , , , , , , , :
Enhancing Built-in Electric Fields for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Encapsulating C60 Fullerene into Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2023)
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202217897 - , , , , , :
Bypassing the Single Junction Limit with Advanced Photovoltaic Architectures
In: Advanced Materials (2023)
ISSN: 0935-9648
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202308578 - , , , , , :
Harnessing multiple generated excitons from intermolecular singlet fission of perylene–monoimides in a p-type dye-sensitized solar cell
In: Solar Energy 250 (2023), p. 1-9
ISSN: 0038-092X
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2022.12.003 - , , , , , , , , , , :
Dark State of the Thiele Hydrocarbon: Efficient Solvatochromic Emission from a Nonpolar Centrosymmetric Singlet Diradicaloid
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 (2023), p. 20229-20241
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c05251 - , , , , , , , , , :
Graphene Oxide-BODIPY Conjugates as Highly Fluorescent Materials
In: Chemistry – A European Journal (2023)
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202300266 - , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Understanding the Visible Absorption of Electron Accepting and Donating CNDs
In: Small (2023)
ISSN: 1613-6829
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202207238 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Enhancing Planar Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Innovative Dumbbell-Shaped HTMs: A Study of Hexabenzocoronene and Pyrene-BODIPY-Triarylamine Derivatives
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2023)
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202304262 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Enhancing Planar Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Innovative Dumbbell-Shaped HTMs: A Study of Hexabenzocoronene and Pyrene-BODIPY-Triarylamine Derivatives
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2023), Article No.: 2304262
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202304262 - , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Tunable Macrocyclic Polyparaphenylene Nanolassos via Copper-Free Click Chemistry
In: Chemistry – A European Journal (2023)
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202300668 - , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Supramolecular Recognition within a Nanosized “Buckytrap” That Exhibits Substantial Photoconductivity
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 (2023), p. 1031-1039
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10555 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
A Universal Design Strategy Based on NiPS3 Nanosheets towards Efficient Photothermal Conversion and Solar Desalination
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2023)
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202310942 - , , , , , , , , :
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Sensitized Singlet Fission in BODIPY-Pentacene Dimer Conjugates
In: Advanced Optical Materials (2023)
ISSN: 2195-1071
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202300500 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Integrated System Built for Small-Molecule Semiconductors via High-Throughput Approaches
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2023)
ISSN: 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c03271 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Carbon Dots Enabling Parts-Per-Billion Sensitive and Ultraselective Photoluminescence Lifetime-Based Sensing of Inorganic Mercury
In: Advanced Optical Materials (2023)
ISSN: 2195-1071
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202300750 - , , , , , :
Photoacid-macroion assemblies: how photo-excitation switches the size of nano-objects
In: Nanoscale (2023)
ISSN: 2040-3364
DOI: 10.1039/d3nr04570f - , , , , , , , :
Driving the quadricyclane-to-norbornadiene isomerization by charge separation with perylenediimide as electron acceptor
In: Chemical Science (2023)
ISSN: 2041-6520
DOI: 10.1039/d3sc03679k
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Shape-Controlled Solution-Epitaxial Perovskite Micro-Crystal Lasers Rivaling Vapor Deposited Ones
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2022)
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202206790 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Highly Stable Lasing from Solution-Epitaxially Grown Formamidinium-Lead-Bromide Micro-Resonators
In: Advanced Optical Materials (2022)
ISSN: 2195-1071
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202200237 - , , , , , :
Solar Energy Storage: Competition between Delocalized Charge Transfer and Localized Excited States in the Norbornadiene to Quadricyclane Photoisomerization
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 199 (2022), p. 153-162
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c04322 - , , , , , , , , , , :
A Geometrically Well-Defined and Systematically Tunable Experimental Model to Transition from Planar to Mesoporous Perovskite Solar Cells
In: ACS Applied Energy Materials (2022)
ISSN: 2574-0962
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.2c00870 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Two Rings Around One Ball: Stability and Charge Localization of [1 : 1] and [2 : 1] Complex Ions of [10]CPP and C60/70[*]
In: Chemistry – A European Journal 29 (2022), Article No.: e202203734
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202203734 - , , , , , :
Probing Charge Management across the π-Systems of Nanographenes in Regioisomeric Electron Donor-Acceptor Architectures
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2022)
ISSN: 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00456 - , , , , , :
Cascades of energy and electron transfer in a panchromatic absorber
In: Nanoscale (2022)
ISSN: 2040-3364
DOI: 10.1039/d2nr02404g - , , , , :
Unique multiphthalocyanine coordination systems: vibrationally hot excited states and charge transfer states that power high energy triplet charge separated states
In: Nanoscale (2022)
ISSN: 2040-3364
DOI: 10.1039/d2nr03721a - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Photoreactions of Sc3N@C80 with Disilirane, Silirane, and Digermirane: A Photochemical Method to Separate Ih and D5h Isomers
In: Photochem 2 (2022), p. 122-137
ISSN: 2673-7256
DOI: 10.3390/photochem2010010 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :
Sb2Se3Thin-Film Growth by Solution Atomic Layer Deposition
In: Chemistry of Materials (2022)
ISSN: 0897-4756
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c01550 - , , , , , :
Anthracene-Fused Oligo-BODIPYs: A New Class of π-Extended NIR-Absorbing Materials
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2022)
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202214543 - , , , , , , , :
Controlling Electronic Events Through Rational Structural Design in Subphthalocyanine-Corrole Dyads: Synthesis, Characterization, and Photophysical Properties
In: Chemistry – A European Journal (2022)
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202201552 - , , :
Merging Carbon Nanostructures with Porphyrins
Springer Nature, 2022
ISBN: 9789811689949
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8994-9_24 - , , , , , , , , , :
Exploring pi-extended subporphyrinoids as electron transporting materials in perovskite solar cells
In: Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (2022)
ISSN: 1088-4246
DOI: 10.1142/S1088424622500444 - , , , , , , , , , :
Supramolecular Recognition of Cytidine Phosphate in Nucleotides and RNA Sequences
In: JACS Au (2022)
ISSN: 2691-3704
DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.2c00658 - , , , , , , , , , , , :
Oxidative Cyclodehydrogenation of Trinaphthylamine: Selective Formation of a Nitrogen-Centered Polycyclic pi-System Comprising 5-and 7-Membered Rings
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61 (2022)
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202205287 - , , , , , , , :
Altering singlet fission pathways in perylene-dimers; perylene-diimide versus perylene-monoimide
In: Nanoscale 14 (2022), p. 5194-5203
ISSN: 2040-3364
DOI: 10.1039/d1nr08523a - , , , , , , , :
Parallel versus Twisted Pentacenes: Conformational Impact on Singlet Fission
In: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2022), p. 5094-5100
ISSN: 1948-7185
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01395 - , , , , , , , :
Exploring the Association of Electron-Donating Corroles with Phthalocyanines as Electron Acceptors
In: Chemistry – A European Journal 28 (2022), Article No.: e202103891
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103891 - , , , , , , , :
A Novel Electron Donor-Acceptor Carbazole-Zn(II)Phthalocyanine – Perfluorinated Subphthalocyanine Conjugate: Synthesis, Characterization, and Photoinduced Electron-Transfer
In: Chemphotochem (2022)
ISSN: 2367-0932
DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202200213 - , , , , , , , , :
Noncovalent Liquid Phase Functionalization of 2H-WS2with PDI: An Energy Conversion Platform with Long-Lived Charge Separation
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (2022), p. 5834–5840
ISSN: 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c11977 - , , , , , , :
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Incorporation of Indium and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Improved ZnO-Based DSSCs
In: Advanced Energy Materials (2022)
ISSN: 1614-6832
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202103662 - , , , , , , , , , :
Synthesis and C 60Binding of Aza[10]CPP and N -Methylaza[10]CPP
In: Organic Materials 4 (2022), p. 7-17
ISSN: 2625-1825
DOI: 10.1055/a-1814-7686 - , , , , , , :
Exploring the Threshold between Fullerenes and Nanotubes: Characterizing Isomerically Pure, Empty-Caged, and Tubular Fullerenes D5h-C90 and D5d-C100
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (2022), p. 10825-10829
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02442 - , , , , , :
Elucidating the electronic properties of single-wall carbon nanohorns
In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2022)
ISSN: 2050-7526
DOI: 10.1039/d2tc00179a - , , , , , , , , , , :
Red edge effect and chromoselective photocatalysis with amorphous covalent triazine-based frameworks
In: Nature Communications 13 (2022), Article No.: 2171
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29781-9
