Step by step: Bis (merocyanine) dyes 1 self-assemble in a stepwise manner with increasing
concentration to afford supramolecular polymers, organogels, and liquid-crystalline phases …

Abstract (Figure Presented) Gelling together: Merocyanine dyes possessing a cholesterol
group as a gelforming auxiliary self-assemble into nanoscopic fibers in apolar cyclohexane …

A series of well-defined chromophore stacks is obtained upon self-assembly of merocyanine
and bis (merocyanine) dyes in nonpolar solvents. Careful design of the spacer moieties …

J‐aggregates are highly desired dye aggregates but so far there has been no general
concept how to accomplish the required slip‐stacked packing arrangement for dipolar …

Functional dyes have gained increased attention because of the growing demands for low-
cost and low-molecular-weight materials applicable to organic photovoltaic devices.[1] The …

Conspectus π-Conjugation between heterocyclic donor (D) and acceptor (A) groups via a
polymethine chain leads to dyes with dipole moments greater than 10 D. These dipole …

Self-organization of natural nanostructures controlled by noncovalent interactions is an
important topic in biophysics. In most cases, such as protein folding, biological self-assembly …

Traditionally, dye aggregates are classified as H-and J-type on the basis of the observed
spectral shift of the absorption maximum relative to the respective monomer absorption band …

Three new molecular building blocks 1 a–c for supramolecular polymerization are described
that feature two dipolar merocyanine dyes tethered by p‐xylylene spacers. Concentration …

Two highly dipolar merocyanine dyes were tethered by a rigid tris (n-dodecyloxy) xylylene
unit that preorganizes the dyes for a supramolecular polymerization process through …