“Unity is force”–Aesop. It is a common phenomenon that traditional chromophores exhibit
high fluorescence in dilute solutions, yet luminescence is quenched at high concentrations …

Pyrene is the fruit fly of photochemists. Its unique properties have inspired researchers from
many scientific areas, making pyrene the chromophore of choice in fundamental and …

The study of the chemistry of compounds containing Si-O bonds has for many years been
dominated by both silica and minerals for which the formula unit SiO2 is important, or by the …

The award of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 to Professors Alan Heeger, Alan
MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa for their discovery that “doped” polyacetylene can …

Nanotechnology is providing new solutions and opportunities to ensure sustainable energy
and environments for the future. Materials of nanofiberous morphology are attractive to solve …

Polysilsesquioxanes are regarded as organic–inorganic hybrid materials at a molecular
level. We can readily tune the properties of the materials for realizing the desired ones by …

Metal-catalyzed coupling reactions of aryl electrophiles with organometallics and with
olefins serve as unusually effective tools for forming new carbon− carbon bonds. By 1998 …

Microstructured Ni/PPy (PPy: polypyrrole) core/shell composites were prepared from an in
situ chemical oxidative polymerization of pyrrole (Py) monomer in the presence of Ni …

A novel giant surfactant possessing a well-defined hydrophilic head and a hydrophobic
polymeric tail, polystyrene−(carboxylic acid-functionalized polyhedral oligomeric …

Due to the low-cost, facile processability and the capability of producing large areas of
flexible thin films, organic optoelectronic materials have been considered among the most …