The ever-increasing global demands for energy supply and storage have led to numerous
research efforts into finding and developing renewable energy technologies. Molecular solar …

The ability to store and release energy efficiently is crucial for advancing sustainable energy
technologies, and light-driven molecular isomerization presents a promising solution …

Harnessing and storage of solar radiations employing molecular photoswitches are certainly
of intense research interest en route to alleviate the increasing energy demand. The present …

Herein, we report monomeric and dimeric norbornadiene‐quadricyclane molecular
photoswitch systems intended for molecular solar thermal applications. A series of six new …

Molecular solar thermal systems, which absorb light, store it, and release it as heat, have
been extensively researched, yet many potential candidates remain unexplored. To expand …

We report a series of p-functionalized phenylbenzoxazoles that offer remarkable energy
storage, exceeding 300 J g− 1, for the first time among intermolecular cycloaddition-based …

The current global energy scenario calls for the urgent replacement of fossil fuels for
alternative, environmentally affordable, abundant and cheap energy sources. Among the …

Solar thermal fuels (STFs) have been particularly concerned as sustainable future energy
due to their impressive ability to store solar energy in chemical bonds and controllably …

The prediction of a specific chemical property across a vast library of derivatives represents
a formidable challenge. Conventional computational methodologies typically rely on brute …

Photochemical reactions enabling efficient transformation of aromatic systems into energetic
but stable non-aromatic isomers have a long history in organic chemistry. One recently …