The creation and development of new forms of nanocarbons have fundamentally
transformed the scientific landscape in the past three decades. As new members of the …

With their versatile absorption, fluorescence, n-type semiconducting and (photo-) stability
properties, perylene bisimides have evolved as the most investigated compounds among …

Two-dimensionally extended, polycyclic heteroaromatic molecules (heterocyclic
nanographenes) are a highly versatile class of organic materials, applicable as functional …

Supramolecular self-assembly, since its beginning in the later 1980s, has attracted
increasing attention as a breakthrough methodology in the fields of nanoscience and …

Perylene-3, 4, 9, 10-tetracarboxylic acid diimides (perylene diimides, PDIs) have been used
as industrial pigments for many years. More recently, new applications for PDI derivatives …

Naphthalene diimides, which have for a long time been in the shadow of their higher
homologues the perylene diimides, currently belong to the most investigated classes of …

Conspectus Rylene dyes, made up of naphthalene units linked in peri-positions, are
emerging as promising key building blocks to create π-functional materials. Chemists have …

Perylene diimides are among the most important chromophores in dyestuff chemistry. They
do not only have excellent thermal, chemical and photochemical stability, high absorption …

This review covers the various classes of molecular structures that may be used as the basis
for the synthesis of organic semiconductors that favor electron transport in field-effect …

Develo** a specific, ratiometric, and reversible detection method for metal ions is
significant to guard against the threat of metal-caused environmental pollution and …