Solar energy is an ample renewable energy resource, with photovoltaic (PV) technology
enabling a direct route from light to electricity. Currently, PVs are limited in photon …

Using light to control matter has captured the imagination of scientists for generations, as
there is an abundance of photons at our disposal. Yet delivering photons beyond the surface …

Many applications, including solar energy conversion, can be enhanced by the
upconversion of low energy photons. A flexible approach towards achieving this is by …

Photon upconversion through sensitized Triplet–Triplet Annihilation (TTA-UC) has regained
a lot of interest during the last decade mainly due to its potential for significantly increased …

The ability to upconvert two low energy photons into one high energy photon has potential
applications in solar energy, biological imaging, and data storage. In this Letter, CdSe and …

Triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) has been attracting attention in various
fields as a promising tool to efficiently generate a shorter-wavelength photon than incident …

Single‐junction photovoltaic devices exhibit a bottleneck in their efficiency due to incomplete
or inefficient harvesting of photons in the low‐or high‐energy regions of the solar spectrum …

Molecular materials afford abundant flexibility in the tunability of physical and electronic
properties. As such, they are ideally suited to engineering low-cost, flexible, light-harvesting …

The low quantum efficiency in the solid phase and the highly efficient quenching by oxygen
are two major weaknesses limiting the practical applications of triplet–triplet annihilation …

Molecular control of energy transfer is an attractive proposition because it allows chemists to
synthetically tweak various kinetic and thermodynamic factors. In this Perspective, we …