Cocrystal engineering: a collaborative strategy toward functional materials

L Sun, Y Wang, F Yang, X Zhang, W Hu - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cocrystal engineering with a noncovalent assembly feature by simple constituent units has
inspired great interest and has emerged as an efficient and versatile route to construct …

Organic crystalline materials in flexible electronics

Y Wang, L Sun, C Wang, F Yang, X Ren… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Flexible electronics have attracted considerable attention recently given their potential to
revolutionize human lives. High-performance organic crystalline materials (OCMs) are …

Contorted polycyclic aromatics

M Ball, Y Zhong, Y Wu, C Schenck, F Ng… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus This Account describes a body of research in the design, synthesis, and
assembly of molecular materials made from strained polycyclic aromatic molecules. The …

Organic 2D optoelectronic crystals: charge transport, emerging functions, and their design perspective

SK Park, JH Kim, SY Park - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D organic semiconductor crystals are emerging as a fascinating platform with
regard to their applications in organic field‐effect transistors (OFETs), attributed to their …

Recent progress in chemistry of multiple helicenes

C Li, Y Yang, Q Miao - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The last decade has witnessed multiple helicenes arising as an interesting class of
nonplanar polycyclic aromatics of inherent multihelicity. These molecules present esthetic …

Heptagon‐Containing Nanographene Embedded into [10] Cycloparaphenylene

JP Mora‐Fuentes, MD Codesal, M Reale… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report the synthesis and characterization of a novel type of nanohoop, consisting of a
cycloparaphenylene derivative incorporating a curved heptagon‐containing π‐extended …

Graphene and graphene-like molecules: prospects in solar cells

KP Loh, SW Tong, J Wu - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Graphene is constantly hyped as a game-changer for flexible transparent displays.
However, to date, no solar cell fabricated on graphene electrodes has out-performed indium …

Understanding the reactivity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and related compounds

I Fernández - Chemical Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This perspective article summarizes recent applications of the combination of the activation
strain model of reactivity and the energy decomposition analysis methods to the study of the …

Nanographene-Fused Expanded Carbaporphyrin Tweezers

H He, YJ Lee, Z Zong, N Liu, VM Lynch… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A nanographene-fused expanded carbaporphyrin (5) and its BF2 complex (6) were
synthesized. Single-crystal X-ray structures revealed that 5 and 6 are connected by two hexa …

Alkyne benzannulation reactions for the synthesis of novel aromatic architectures

SJ Hein, D Lehnherr, H Arslan… - Accounts of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Aromatic compounds and polymers are integrated into organic field effect
transistors, light-emitting diodes, photovoltaic devices, and redox-flow batteries. These …