Conspectus Controlling the physical and chemical properties of surfaces and interfaces is of
fundamental relevance in various areas of physical chemistry and a key issue of modern …

In recent years, poled polymers have attracted great interest due to their applications in
optics, physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Organic second order nonlinear optical …

Conductive metal–organic frameworks (c MOFs) manifest great potential in modern
electrical devices due to their porous nature and the ability to conduct charges in a regular …

Tuning of intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) in a molecule could be used to modulate its
linear and nonlinear optical (NLO) response properties. Over the years, the ICT process in …

Nonlinear optics is essential for many recent photonic technologies. Here, a novel multi‐
scale approach is introduced to simulate the nonlinear optical response of molecular …

Electronic circular dichroism is an important optical phenomenon offering insights into chiral
molecular materials. On the other hand, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a novel …

Thin films are widely-used functional materials that have attracted much interest in academic
and industrial applications. With thin films becoming micro/nanoscale, developing a simple …

Metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) are a specific class of hybrid, crystalline, nano‐porous
materials made of metal‐ion‐based 'nodes' and organic linkers. Most of the studies on MOFs …

Collective electrostatic effects arise from the superposition of electrostatic potentials of
periodically arranged (di) polar entities and are known to crucially impact the electronic …

It is well established that collective electrostatic effects resulting from the periodic
arrangement of polar entities determine the energy-level alignment at conventional, 2D …