Conspectus The discovery of the self-assembly of cyanine dyes into J-aggregates had a
major impact on the development of dye chemistry due to the emergence of new useful …

An overview on the properties and applications of polymer and inorganic planar 1D photonic
crystals fabricated from solution is provided here. In the last decades, photonic crystals …

The LUMO levels of rylene diimides are highly comparable to those of fullerenes but this
class of molecules offers tunability of both HOMO and LUMO levels and the related band …

Organic lasers have undergone decades of development. A myriad of materials with
excellent optical gain properties, including small molecules, dendrimers, and polymers …

Solution processing of highly performing photonic crystals has been a towering ambition for
making them technologically relevant in applications requiring mass and large-area …

Next-generation light-emitting applications such as displays and optical communications
require judicious control over emitted light, including intensity and angular dispersion. To …

Abstract Distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) are primarily used in lasers and
telecommunications. Liquid film deposition of DBRs holds great promise for expanding their …

A new twelvefold methoxy-triethyleneglycol-jacketed tetraphenoxy-perylene bisimide (MEG-
PBI) amphiphile was synthesized that self-assembles into two types of supramolecular …

A series of 1-mono-and 1, 7-disubstituted perylene bisimides (PBIs) with voluminous
phenoxy groups at bay positions has been synthesized. These dyes show absorption and …

A new perylene bisimide (PBI), with a fluorescence quantum yield up to unity, self‐
assembles into two polymorphic supramolecular polymers. This PBI bears four solubilizing …