Dye–dye interactions affect the optical and electronic properties in organic semiconductor
films of light harvesting and detecting optoelectronic applications. This review elaborates …

Luminescent small, all‐organic molecules are of tremendous interest in materials and life
science applications. Nevertheless, targeted design requires a basic understanding of the …

Understanding the photophysics and photochemistry of molecular π-stacked chromophores
is important for utilizing them as functional photonic materials. However, these investigations …

Organic light‐emitting materials in the near‐infrared (NIR) region are important to realize
next‐generation lightweight and wearable applications in bioimaging, photodynamic …

Coherence refers to correlations in waves. Because matter has a wave-particle nature, it is
unsurprising that coherence has deep connections with the most contemporary issues in …

Conspectus Excitons and polarons play a central role in the electronic and optical properties
of organic semiconducting polymers and molecular aggregates and are of fundamental …

Singlet exciton fission in organic chromophores has received much attention during the past
decade. Inspired by numerous spectroscopic studies in the solid state, there have been …

Electrochromic coatings are promising for applications in smart windows or energy-efficient
optical displays. However, classical inorganic electrochromic materials such as WO3 suffer …

Supramolecular assembly of organic dye compounds with J-aggregation leads to a red-
shifted absorption spectrum that greatly facilitates the construction of near-infrared (NIR) …

A bis (squaraine) dye equipped with alkyl and oligoethyleneglycol chains was synthesized
by connecting two dicyanomethylene substituted squaraine dyes with a phenylene spacer …