When many of the currently largest chemical companies were founded about 150 years ago,
textile dyes constituted their first products. Interestingly, while most of the utilized colorants …

Today where everybody is using a large variety of electronic devices such as notebook and
tablet computers, smart phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, flat panel TVs, as well as …

Pyrene is the fruit fly of photochemists. Its unique properties have inspired researchers from
many scientific areas, making pyrene the chromophore of choice in fundamental and …

1.1 Background Dendrimers and dendrons are architectural motifs synthesized by either
divergent or convergent iterative methods, and therefore, they provide monodisperse …

The mechanisms of most organic reactions are considered to proceed by two-electron
transfer pathways, even though both biology and radical chemistry rely extensively on one …

This tutorial review summarizes strategies elaborated for the discovery and prediction of
programmed primary structures derived from quasi-equivalent constitutional isomeric …

Discotic liquid crystals are a promising class of materials for molecular electronics thanks to
their self-organization and charge transporting properties. The best discotics so far are built …

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 …

Helical architectures including artwork and monuments, such us the Trajan's column from
Rome, were constructed as early as in the year 113 while the assemblies and the self …

Soft materials formed by molecular self-assembly have attracted much attention recently.[1]
Liquid crystals are one such soft material that combines ordered and dynamic states.[2] …