Silica-based materials (SBMs) are widely used in catalysis, photonics, and drug delivery.
Their pores and cavities act as hosts of diverse guests ranging from classical dyes to drugs …

Empty spaces are abhorred by nature, which immediately rushes in to fill the void. Humans
have learnt pretty well how to make ordered empty nanocontainers, and to get useful …

Luminescent materials sensitive to environmental stimuli are of great interest from both
scientific and engineering aspects, due to their potential applications in fluorescent switches …

Nanochannels have been used as hosts for supramolecular organization for a large variety
of guests. The possibilities for building complex structures based on 2D and especially 3D …

Systems featuring large magnetoresistance (MR) at room temperature and in small magnetic
fields are attractive owing to their potential for applications in magnetic field sensing and …

Stars that shine bright: A high local dye concentration in doped silica‐based core–shell
nanoparticles causes self‐quenching and spectral broadening (top images). This …

A series of fluorescent probe molecules based on the commercially available trans-4-(4-
(diethylamino) styryl)-N-methylpyridinium iodide (DAMPI) scaffold has been developed. The …

We investigate and assign a previously reported unexpected transition in the metal–organic
framework Zn2 (NDC) 2 (DPNI)(1; NDC= 2, 6-naphthalenedicarboxylate, DPNI= dipyridyl …

The understanding and description of collectively excited multichromophores is of crucial
importance for many areas of basic and applied research. DNA has been used for the …

Confined supramolecular architectures of chromophores are key components in artificial
antenna composites for solar energy harvesting and storage. A typical fabrication process …