Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment mainly for cancer but also for bacterial
infections. This treatment dates back to 1900 when a German medical school graduate …

This Account reviews our main achievements in the field of excited-state properties of
fullerene derivatives. The photosensitizing and electron-acceptor features of some relevant …

Antibacterial photodynamic therapy (APDT) has drawn increasing attention from the
scientific society for its potential to effectively kill multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria and …

Since their first detection and bulk production, the fullerenes have gained a primary role on
the scientific scene, reaching their climax when the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was …

Achieving efficient solar energy conversion at both large scale and low cost is among the
most important technological challenges for the near future. The present volume describes …

This tutorial review surveys and highlights the integration of different molecular wires—in
combination with chromophores that exhibit (i) significant absorption cross section …

Photoinduced charge separation (CS) and charge recombination (CR) processes have
been examined in various porphyrin− fullerene linked systems (ie., dyads and triads) by …

First Self-Contained Source Entirely Dedicated to Nanocarbons Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
attract a good deal of attention for their electronic, mechanical, optical, and chemical …

An extremely long-lived charge-separated state has been achieved successfully using a
ferrocene− zincporphyrin− freebaseporphyrin− fullerene tetrad which reveals a cascade of …

The cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs) are a class of strained macrocycles that until 2008 were
considered beyond the reach of organic synthesis. With its cyclic array of ten para …