The detection of explosives is one of the current pressing concerns in global security. In the
past few decades, a large number of emissive sensing materials have been developed for …

Dendrimers Designed for Functions: From Physical, Photophysical, and Supramolecular
Properties to Applications in Sensing, Catalysis, Molecular Electronics, Photonics, and …

Selective and discriminative detection of–NO2 containing high energy organic compounds
such as picric acid (PA), 2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and dinitrotoluene (DNT) has become a …

Over the past 15 years, hyperbranched polymers have received much attention due to their
unique chemical and physical properties as well as their potential applications in coatings …

Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) use low-cost materials, feature tunable molecular
sensitizers, and exhibit quantum efficiencies near unity. These advantageous features can …

Energy is the most important issue of the 21st century. About 85% of our energy comes from
fossil fuels, a finite resource unevenly distributed beneath the Earth's surface. Reserves of …

The goal of artificial photosynthesis is to use the energy of the sun to make high-energy
chemicals for energy production. One approach, described here, is to use light absorption …

Cu (I) complexes and clusters are the largest class of compounds of relevant photochemical
and photophysical interest based on a relatively abundant metal element. Interestingly …

One of the primary recent improvements in molecular chemistry is the now decade-old
concept of click chemistry. Typically performed as copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne (CuAAC) …

The extraordinary development of the design and synthesis of dendrimers has allowed
scientists to locate redox sites at precise positions (core, focal points, branching points …