Nature offers inspiration for develo** technologies that integrate the capture, conversion,
and storage of solar energy. In this review article, we highlight principles of natural …

DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

Pure organic phosphorescence resonance energy transfer is a research hotspot. Herein, a
single-molecule phosphorescence resonance energy transfer system with a large Stokes …

The past 20 years have witnessed a renaissance of dye chemistry, moving from traditional
colorant research toward functional materials. Different from traditional colorant research …

Abstract Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), a new class of crystalline porous organic–
inorganic hybrid materials, have recently attracted increasing interest in the field of energy …

When many of the currently largest chemical companies were founded about 150 years ago,
textile dyes constituted their first products. Interestingly, while most of the utilized colorants …

Organic photosensitizers possessing efficient intersystem crossing (ISC) and forming long-
living triplet excited states, play a crucial role in a number of applications. A common …

This review discusses one-dimensional supramolecular polymers that form in aqueous
media. First, naturally occurring supramolecular polymers are described, in particular …

Recent advances and the current status of challenging light-harvesting nanomaterials, such
as semiconducting quantum dots (QDs), metal nanoparticles, semiconductor–metal …

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 …