Unraveling chromism-induced marvels in energy storage systems

M Golshan, M Salami-Kalajahi - Progress in Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Color is a property directly discernible by our eyes, making it perceptually conspicuous.
Changes in color, whether achromatic (from white to black) or chromatic (from colorless to …

Breaking the Kasha rule for more efficient photochemistry

AP Demchenko, VI Tomin, PT Chou - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
This paper provides a systematic review and analysis of different phenomena that violate a
basic principle, Kasha's rule, when applied to photochemical reactions. In contrast to the …

Functional π-gelators and their applications

SS Babu, VK Praveen, A Ajayaghosh - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular chemistry originally defined by Lehn as “chemistry beyond molecules”
exploits noncovalent interactions between molecules to form 1D, 2D, and 3D …

Ultrafast elementary photochemical processes of organic molecules in liquid solution

T Kumpulainen, B Lang, A Rosspeintner… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast photochemical reactions in liquids occur on similar or shorter time scales compared
to the equilibration of the optically populated excited state. This equilibration involves the …

Molecular approach to engineer two-dimensional devices for CMOS and beyond-CMOS applications

Y Zhao, M Gobbi, LE Hueso, P Samorì - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) have attracted tremendous research interest over the
last two decades. Their unique optical, electronic, thermal, and mechanical properties make …

Photoisomerization in different classes of azobenzene

HMD Bandara, SC Burdette - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Azobenzene undergoes trans→ cisisomerization when irradiated with light tuned to an
appropriate wavelength. The reverse cis→ transisomerization can be driven by light or …

Tunable photochromism of spirooxazine in the solid state: a new design strategy based on the hypochromic effect

T Zhang, XY Lou, X Li, X Tu, J Han, B Zhao… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As an important organic photofunctional material, spirooxazine (SO) usually does not exhibit
photochromism in the solid state since the intermolecular π–π stacking impedes …

Recent advances in small-molecule fluorescent photoswitches with photochromism in diverse states

Y Wu, Y Zhu, C Yao, J Zhan, P Wu, Z Han… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Photochromic materials have been widely used in various areas including data encryption,
biological imaging and anti-counterfeiting because of their excellent contrast …

[HTML][HTML] Control over molecular motion using the cis–trans photoisomerization of the azo group

E Merino, M Ribagorda - Beilstein journal of organic chemistry, 2012 - beilstein-journals.org
Control over molecular motion represents an important objective in modern chemistry.
Aromatic azobenzenes are excellent candidates as molecular switches since they can exist …

Reversible switching of ultrastrong light-molecule coupling

T Schwartz, JA Hutchison, C Genet, TW Ebbesen - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We demonstrate that photochromic molecules enable switching from the weak-to ultrastrong-
coupling regime reversibly, by using all-optical control. This switch is achieved by …