Development of renewable energy technologies has been a significant area of research
amongst scientists with the aim of attaining a sustainable world society. Solar thermal fuels …

Molecular solar thermal (MOST) fuels have attracted enormous research enthusiasm in solar
energy conversion and storage, which can generate high-energy isomers upon harvesting …

Conspectus Renewable energy resources are mostly intermittent and not evenly distributed
geographically; for this reason, the development of new technologies for energy storage is in …

Recently, Baird (anti) aromaticity has been referred to as a description of excited-state (anti)
aromaticity. With the term of Baird's rule, recent studies have intensively verified that the …

The development of solar energy can potentially meet the growing requirements for a global
energy system beyond fossil fuels, but necessitates new scalable technologies for solar …

We present here a group of Azo-BF2 photoswitches that store and release energy in
response to visible light irradiation. Unmodified Azo-BF2 switches have a planar structure …

Photoswitches are organic or organometallic chromophores that undergo a reversible
chemical transformation upon absorption of light. Among the most commonly studied …

This review illustrates various structural design principles for molecular solar thermal
(MOST) energy storage materials based on photoswitches that operate under different …

We introduce donor-acceptor substituted anthracenes as effective molecular solar thermal
energy storage compounds that operate exclusively in the solid state. The donor-acceptor …

Molecular photoswitches can be used for solar thermal energy storage by
photoisomerization into high-energy, meta-stable isomers; we present a molecular design …