Organic conjugated polymers form an interesting class of materials in organic electronics, which is expected to find many applications in the near future. Though polymerisation reactions can allow the rapid synthesis of ...

A number of cyclic peptides have emerged as valuable pharmaceutical templates due to their resistance to chemical or enzymatic hydrolysis and high selectivity. In 2001, the celogentin family of bicyclic peptides was isolated ...

The work described in this thesis is targeted towards generating coordination frameworks with redox-active ligands. Redox-active coordination polymers are anticipated to possess interesting and useful electronic properties. ...

Sulfoquinovose (SQ, 6-deoxy-6-sulfoglucose) is the polar head group of the plant sulfolipid, sulfoquinovoside diacylglycerol (SQDG). SQ is estimated to be synthesized at a scale of some 10 billion tonnes annually and is a ...

Polyphenolic-, amino acids- and doxorubicin-based nanostructures are of great interest due to their multifarious applications in biomedical field as antibiotics, antioxidants, antimicrobial and anti-cancer agents. Most ...

A luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) is a type of light harvesting device, showing potential as an alternative to the traditional photovoltaics (PV). A typical LSC consists of a planar waveguide system embedded with ...

Photon upconversion, a process that creates the excited states at higher energy (shorter wavelength) with excitation at lower energy (longer wavelength), has numerous potentials in photovoltaic, photocatalysis and bioimaging ...

Cell surface receptors, which are overexpressed in cancerous tumours, are feasible molecular targets for tumour imaging. The transmembrane G-protein coupled receptor CXCR4 is overexpressed in tumours and has a crucial role ...

Electrochromic materials have attracted the interest of researchers over the last several decades. They are able to change their color upon the application of a voltage. Tungsten oxide (WO3) and titanium oxide (TiO2) are ...

Discotic organic polyaromatic semiconducting materials have been utilized in different organic electronic applications, specifically as light harvesting material for organic photovoltaics (OPV), the development of which, ...