Solar energy has a great potential as a clean, cheap, renewable and sustainable energy
source, but it must be captured and transformed into useful forms of energy as plants do. An …

Azadipyrromethenes were first described over 70 years ago as blue pigments, but now are
rapidly emerging as a compound class with highly desirable near infrared photophysical …

Carbon based nanomaterials have emerged over the last few years as important agents for
biomedical fluorescence and Raman imaging applications. These spectroscopic techniques …

The inflammatory effects of carbon nanoparticles (NPs) are highly disputed. Here it is
demonstrated that endotoxin‐free preparations of raw carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are very …

BODIPY dyes constitute one of the most efficient class of fluorescent molecules, yet their
absorption and emission signatures are hardly predictable with theoretical tools. Here, we …

BODIPY and aza-BODIPY dyes constitute two key families of organic dyes with applications
in both materials science and biology. Previous attempts aiming to obtain accurate …

A 'molecular clip'featuring a near-IR emitting fluorophore, BF2-chelated
tetraarylazadipyrromethane (aza-BODIPY) covalently linked to two porphyrins (MP, M= 2H …

Carbon nano-onions (CNOs) are an emerging class of nanoparticles which shows great
potential in a number of different applications. Carbon nano-materials have been widely …

We have simulated the optical properties of Aza-Boron-dipyrromethene (Aza-BODIPY) dyes
and, more precisely, the 0–0 energies as well as the shape of both absorption and …

This Minireview sheds light onto the electronic communication between, on one hand, low
dimensional nanocarbons–single and multiwalled 1D carbon nanotubes and 2D graphene …