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 …

Fascination with supramolecular chemistry over the past few decades has led to the
synthesis of an ever-increasing number of elegant and intricate functional structures with …

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 …

Sequential energy transfer is ubiquitous in natural light-harvesting systems (LHSs), which
greatly promotes the exploitation of light energy. The LHSs in nature are sophisticated …

Chemical ingenuity will play a significant role in solving the greatest challenge currently
facing society: providing clean and carbon neutral energy for all of humanity. Molecular …

The self‐assembly of a new, highly fluorescent perylene bisimide dye 2 into π stacks, both in
solution and condensed phase, has been studied in detail by NMR spectroscopy, vapor …

The synthesis, self‐assembly, and gelation ability of a series of organogelators based on
perylene bisimide (PBI) dyes containing amide groups at imide positions are reported. The …

In 1967 Pederson reported the synthesis of macrocyclic crown ethers and their ability to
selectively bind alkali and alkaline earth ions, 1, 2 and since then supramolecular …

Efficient utilization of light energy is crucial for various technological applications ranging
from solar energy conversion to optoelectronic devices. Supramolecular light-harvesting …

Designing and constructing multichromophoric, artificial light-harvesting antennas with
controlled interchromophore distances, orientations, and defined donor–acceptor ratios to …