Lasing applications have spread over various aspects of human life. To meet the developing
trends of the laser industry towards being miniature, portable, and highly integrated, new …

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are competitive candidates for the next generation flat-
panel displays and solid state lighting sources. Efficient blue-emitting materials have been …

The award of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 to Professors Alan Heeger, Alan
MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa for their discovery that “doped” polyacetylene can …

Branched macromolecules or dendrimers have provided a rich seam of research in terms of
both innovative chemistry and applications. 1-14 For example, dendrimers have been …

Fundamentally important as models for the study of energy and charge migration in self-
organized systems, discotic liquid crystals find functional application as one-dimensional …

Strategies for the design and construction of non-linear, 2D and 3D conjugated
macromolecules are presented in this critical review. The materials, termed here as star …

Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) has continued to receive considerable attention in various
applications, owing to its intrinsic advantages such as near-zero background response, wide …

The field of optically pumped planar waveguide lasers has seen a rapid development over
the last two decades driven by the requirements of a range of applications. This sustained …

Truxene (10, 15-dihydro-5H-diindeno [1, 2-a; 1′, 2′-c] fluorene), which is a heptacyclic
polyarene structure, has attracted a great deal of interest due to its exceptional solubility …

A novel series of kinked star‐shaped oligofluorene/triazatruxene hybrids are conveniently
prepared via a powerful microwave‐enhanced multiple coupling methodology. Constructing …