Over the last years, the authors' laboratory has employed monochromatic tuneable laser
systems to reveal a fundamental mismatch between the absorptivity of a chromophore and …

Chito-oligosaccharides (COS), derived from chitosan (CH), are attracting increasing
attention as drug delivery carriers due to their biocompatibility, biodegradability, and …

The last few decades have witnessed significant progress in synthetic macromolecular
chemistry, which can provide access to diverse macromolecules with varying structural …

The functionalization of emulsion-templated porous polymers (polyHIPEs) utilizing modern
and efficient chemistries is an important avenue for tailoring the properties of these scaffolds …

A new Diels–Alder (DA)-based photopatterning platform is presented, which exploits the
irreversible, light-induced decarbonylation and subsequent cleavage of cyclopentadienone …

Herein, a strategy to control conformational changes in grafted polymer brushes via
photoinduced crosslinking of photoreactive groups embedded into the lateral architecture of …

The nitrile imine-mediated tetrazole–ene cycloaddition is a widely used class of
photoligation. Optimizing the reaction outcome requires detailed knowledge of the tetrazole …

A plasmonic chip with a wavelength-size periodic structure coated with silver and silica
layers has been applied to sensitive fluorescence observation under a microscope. In this …

Nature utilizes the energy of light for chemical transformations such as photosynthesis or the
visual systems in human eyes, where wavelengths from predominantly high energetic UV to …