C60 fullerene is an icosahedrally shaped nanosized molecule and is a useful building block
to form various ordered functional nanostructures due to its size, shape, and …

In this Perspective, we present a unique approach to the design and synthesis of giant
molecules based on “nanoatoms” for engineering structures across multiple length scales …

Discotic liquid crystals (DLCs) are nanomaterials with sizes ranging from 2 to 6 nm, and they
are emerging as one-dimensional organic semiconducting materials. Recently, hybridization …

This feature article focuses on the recent development of giant molecules, which has
emerged at the interface among chemistry, physics, and bio-science. Their molecular …

This essay discusses some preliminary thoughts on the development of a rational and
modular approach for molecular design in soft matter engineering and proposes ideas of …

Charge transport in conjugated polymers is critical to most optoelectronic devices and
depends strongly on the polymer structure and conformation in the solid state …

Bulk heterojunction solar cells were fabricated using the blend films of a porphyrin bearing
pyridinylethynyl group (POR) as electron donor and PC60BM or PC70BM as electron …

This report describes the synthesis of a novel porphyrin–triazine compound bearing three
porphyrin macrocycles connected to each other via a triazine central unit, and investigation …

Although chemical modifications on conjugated molecules are widely applied for the
purpose of improving processability and device performances, the effect of the modification …

Giant shape amphiphiles (GSA) are giant molecules made with nano-building blocks that
have distinct shapes. The incompatible packing behaviors of the nano-building blocks of …