Light to investigate (read) and operate (write) molecular devices and machines

A Strongly Emitting Liquid-Crystalline Derivative of Y3N@C80: Bright and Long-Lived Near-IR Luminescence from a Charge Transfer State

(2013) Kalman Toth et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A clamp-like biohybrid catalyst for DNA oxidation

(2013) Stijn F. M. van Dongen et al.   Nature Chemistry

Sequence-Specific Peptide Synthesis by an Artificial Small-Molecule Machine

(2013) B. Lewandowski et al.   SCIENCE

Unprecedented high-temperature CO2 selectivity in N2-phobic nanoporous covalent organic polymers

(2013) Hasmukh A. Patel et al.   Nature Communications

Photoinduced Memory Effect in a Redox Controllable Bistable Mechanical Molecular Switch

(2012) Tommaso Avellini et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoactivated Directionally Controlled Transit of a Non-Symmetric Molecular Axle Through a Macrocycle

(2012) Massimo Baroncini et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoswitchable Metal Coordinating Tweezers Operated by Light-Harvesting Dendrimers

(2012) Enrico Marchi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A multichromophoric dendrimer: from synthesis to energy up-conversion in a rigid matrix

(2011) Giacomo Bergamini et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Photoisomerization in different classes of azobenzene

(2011) H. M. Dhammika Bandara et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Energy Up-Conversion by Low-Power Excitation: New Applications of an Old Concept

(2011) Paola Ceroni   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Light-Harvesting in Multichromophoric Rotaxanes

(2011) Maria E. Gallina et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Metal ion complexes of cyclam-cored dendrimers for molecular photonics

(2011) Giacomo Bergamini et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Electrically driven directional motion of a four-wheeled molecule on a metal surface

(2011) Tibor Kudernac et al.   NATURE

Designing light harvesting antennas by luminescent dendrimers

(2011) Vincenzo Balzani et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

A Light-Harvesting Antenna Resulting from the Self-Assembly of Five Luminescent Components: A Dendrimer, Two Clips, and Two Lanthanide Ions

(2010) Barbara Branchi et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Light on Molecular Machines

(2010) Alberto Credi et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Photon upconversion based on sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation

(2010) Tanya N. Singh-Rachford et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Photochemical switching of luminescence and singlet oxygen generation by chemical signal communication

(2009) Serena Silvi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Mapping Excited-State Dynamics by Coherent Control of a Dendrimer's Photoemission Efficiency

(2009) D. G. Kuroda et al.   SCIENCE

Unravelling the Shuttling Mechanism in a Photoswitchable Multicomponent Bistable Rotaxane

(2008) Paolo Raiteri et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

All-Optical Integrated Logic Operations Based on Chemical Communication between Molecular Switches

(2008) Serena Silvi et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Photochemical Conversion of Solar Energy

(2007) Vincenzo Balzani et al.   ChemSusChem