Redox: Organic robust radicals and their polymers for energy conversion/storage devices

K Hatakeyama-Sato, K Oyaizu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Persistent radicals can hold their unpaired electrons even under conditions where they
accumulate, leading to the unique characteristics of radical ensembles with open-shell …

Air‐Stable Organic Radicals: New‐Generation Materials for Flexible Electronics?

L Ji, J Shi, J Wei, T Yu, W Huang - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the last few years, air‐stable organic radicals and radical polymers have attracted
tremendous attention due to their outstanding performance in flexible electronic devices …

Carbon-based Biradicals: Structural and Magnetic Switching

Y Ishigaki, T Harimoto, T Shimajiri, T Suzuki - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sterically hindered C═ C double bonds often deform into a bent or twisted geometry. Thus,
many overcrowded ethylenes or anthraquinodimethanes can adopt multiple conformations …

From open-shell singlet diradicaloids to polyradicaloids

TY Gopalakrishna, W Zeng, X Lu, J Wu - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In this Feature Article, we highlight our recent efforts toward stable open-shell singlet
diradicaloids and polyradicaloids. A brief review on the historical works in the area is …

Platforms for stable carbon‐centered radicals

K Kato, A Osuka - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Organic radicals can potentially play important roles in functional materials owing to an
unpaired electron, but they are usually highly reactive and difficult to use. Therefore …

Piezochromism and hydrochromism through electron transfer: new stories for viologen materials

Q Sui, XT Ren, YX Dai, K Wang, WT Li, T Gong… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
While viologen derivatives have long been known for electrochromism and photochromism,
here we demonstrated that a viologen-carboxylate zwitterionic molecule in the crystalline …

Electro-optical π-radicals: design advances, applications and future perspectives

P Murto, H Bronstein - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The unique open-shell electronic structure of neutral π-radicals has inspired research on
novel molecular materials for over a century. In recent years, rapid development in carbon …

Construction of porous aromatic frameworks with specifically designed motifs for charge storage and transport

Y Tian, F Cui, Z Bian, X Tao, H Wang… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Porous frameworks possess high porosity and adjustable functions. The two
features conjointly create sufficient interfaces for matter exchange and energy transfer within …

Isomeric Dibenzoheptazethrenes for Air‐Stable Organic Field‐Effect Transistors

C Zong, X Zhu, Z Xu, L Zhang, J Xu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Singlet diradicaloids hold great potential as semiconductors for organic field‐effect
transistors (OFETs). However, their relative low material and device stabilities impede the …

Stable olympicenyl radicals and their π-dimers

Q Xiang, J Guo, J Xu, S Ding, Z Li, G Li… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
An olympicenyl radical, a spin 1/2 hydrocarbon radical with C 2 v symmetry and uneven spin
distribution, remains elusive despite the considerable theoretical research interest. Herein …