Photochromic materials have broad application prospects in the fields of molecular
switching, detection, biological, and molecular machines. Crystalline hybrid photochromic …

Various inorganic and organometallic complexes exhibiting quadratic nonlinear optical
(NLO) properties (ie, linearly correlated to the square of the electric field E 2) are reviewed …

This work demonstrates that the recognition of cations by molecular switches can give rise to
large contrasts of the second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties, which can therefore …

As promising photoresponsive materials and potential smart materials, hybrid photochromic
materials (HPMs), especially for crystalline HPMs (CHPMs), have been broadly explored for …

The first bulk electron‐transfer photochromic compound with intrinsic second‐order
nonlinear optical (NLO) photoswitching properties has been synthesized. This system …

Nonlinear optical (NLO) switchable materials are important for photonic and optoelectronic
technologies. One important issue for NLO photoswitching, the most studied physical …

The metal–organic framework NH2-MIL-53 (Al) is the first solid-state material displaying
nonlinear optical switching due to a conformational change upon breathing. A switching …

Exceptional nonlinear optical (NLO) switching behavior, including an extremely large
contrast (on/off) of∼ 35 and high NLO coefficients, is displayed by a solid-state reversible …

Molecular switches: Highly efficient acido‐and photoswitchable frequency doublers (see
scheme) based on the indolinooxazolidine core are studied by means of hyper‐Rayleigh …

The electronic structure at organic/organic interfaces plays a key role, among others, in
defining the quantum efficiency of organics-based photovoltaic cells. Here, we perform …