Nanomaterials with unique physical and chemical properties have attracted extensive
attention of scientific research and will play an increasingly important role in the future …

Chirality, ubiquitous in biological systems, is the property of the non-superimposable
structures found in both macroscopic and nanoscopic objects. In the last ten years, the …

This article describes the design and development of a discotic triad, where perylene is
sandwiched between two pentaalkynyl benzene units, linked via a flexible alkyl spacer. The …

Phthalocyanine emerged as a promising molecular component for photoreceptors because
of their high extinction coefficients, stability, and energy band gaps well-matched to the …

Chiroptical material is an intriguing and rapidly evolving field in nanomaterial research to
alter and improve the optical interaction of hybrid composites with incident light. In this …

A key challenge for designing hybrid materials is the development of chemical tools to
control the organization of inorganic nanoobjects at low scales, from mesoscopic (~ µm) to …

A series of discotic dimers were synthesized in an attempt to obtain nematic discotic liquid
crystal phases. Although initial target compounds were nonmesogenic, the incorporation of …

Photocorrosion is the most ticklish problem of cuprous oxide (Cu2O), and it is widely
assumed that the deactivation of Cu2O photocathodes in solar water splitting is caused by …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been prepared and surface-functionalized with a mixture
of 1-hexanethiol co-ligands and chiral discogen ligands separated from a disulfide function …

A unique strategy for the attainment of a discotic nematic (ND) mesophase is reported
consisting of a central benzene core to which are attached two 4-alkylphenyl and two 4 …