Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals

WM Awad, DW Davies, D Kitagawa… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last century, molecular crystals functioned predominantly as a means for determining
the molecular structures via X-ray diffraction, albeit as the century came to a close the …

Organic solid‐state fluorescence: strategies for generating switchable and tunable fluorescent materials

SP Anthony - ChemPlusChem, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Organic fluorescent materials have been an integral part of recently emerged optoelectronic
device technologies owing to their good photophysical properties such as high quantum …

Structural Effects of Fe3O4 Nanocrystals on Peroxidase‐Like Activity

S Liu, F Lu, R Xing, JJ Zhu - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The catalytic activity of nanocrystal catalysts depends strongly on their structures. Herein, we
report three distinct structures of Fe3O4 nanocrystals, cluster spheres, octahedra, and …

Color‐tunable solid‐state emission of 2, 2′‐biindenyl‐based fluorophores

Z Zhang, B Xu, J Su, L Shen, Y Xie, H Tian - … Chemie International Edition, 2011 - infona.pl
A colorful bunch: Dyes based on 2, 2′‐biindenyl fluorophores exhibit tunable solid‐state
emission colors that cover the whole visible region from blue to red. The nonplanar …

Supersaturation-dependent surface structure evolution: from ionic, molecular to metallic micro/nanocrystals

H Lin, Z Lei, Z Jiang, C Hou, D Liu, M Xu… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Deduced from thermodynamics and the Thomson–Gibbs equation that the surface energy of
crystal face is in proportion to the supersaturation of crystal growth units during the crystal …

Phase Diagram and Structural Diversity of a Family of Truncated Cubes:<? format?> Degenerate Close-Packed Structures and Vacancy-Rich States

AP Gantapara, J de Graaf, R van Roij, M Dijkstra - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
Using Monte Carlo simulations and free-energy calculations, we determine the phase
diagram of a family of truncated hard cubes, where the shape evolves smoothly from a cube …

A luminescent nanoscale metal–organic framework with controllable morphologies for spore detection

H Xu, X Rao, J Gao, J Yu, Z Wang, Z Dou… - Chemical …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A luminescent nanoscale metal–organic framework with controllable morphologies for
spore detection - Chemical Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C2CC32346J …

Interfacial self-assembly driven formation of hierarchically structured nanocrystals with photocatalytic activity

Y Zhong, Z Wang, R Zhang, F Bai, H Wu, R Haddad… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis of hierarchical structured nanocrystals through an interfacial self-
assembly driven microemulsion (μ-emulsion) process. An optically active macrocyclic …

Optical materials based on molecular nanoparticles

A Patra, CG Chandaluri, TP Radhakrishnan - Nanoscale, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A major part of contemporary nanomaterials research is focused on metal and
semiconductor nanoparticles, constituted of extended lattices of atoms or ions. Molecular …

Controlled morphogenesis of organic polyhedral nanocrystals from cubes, cubooctahedrons, to octahedrons by manipulating the growth kinetics

L Kang, H Fu, X Cao, Q Shi, J Yao - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Morphological control of organic nanocrystals (ONCs) is important in the fields ranging from
specialty chemicals to molecular semiconductors. Although the thermodynamic shape can …