Fire safety and prevention of combustible materials are of paramount importance in modern
society but have been a global challenge. Frequent fire disasters cause massive casualties …

Molecular packing and texture of semiconducting polymers are often critical to the
performance of devices using these materials. Although frameworks exist to quantify the …

The past couple of years have witnessed a remarkable burst in the development of organic
field-effect transistors (OFETs), with a number of organic semiconductors surpassing the …

Solution coating of organic semiconductors offers great potential for achieving low-cost
manufacturing of large-area and flexible electronics. However, the rapid coating speed …

Circuits based on organic semiconductors are being actively explored for flexible,
transparent and low-cost electronic applications,,,,. But to realize such applications, the …

An increase or modification of structural order in the vicinity of a solid substrate is known for
a wide range of materials. For molecular materials crystallizing on a solid surface it has been …

Understanding the mechanism of singlet exciton fission, in which a singlet exciton separates
into a pair of triplet excitons, is crucial to the development of new chromophores for efficient …

V-shaped organic semiconductors have been designed and synthesized via a large-scale
applicable synthetic route. Solution-crystallized films based on such molecules have …

Understanding crystal polymorphism is a long-standing challenge relevant to many fields,
such as pharmaceuticals, organic semiconductors, pigments, food, and explosives …

A series of C 3-symmetric π-conjugated compounds containing three to six o-carborane
clusters have been synthesized by employing palladium-catalyzed Suzuki coupling …