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A Chemically and Electrochemically Switchable [2]Catenane Incorporating a Tetrathiafulvalene Unit

scientific article published on 01 February 1998

A Dendritic Antenna for Near-Infrared Emission of Nd3+ Ions

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

A Providential Last Warning

scholarly article published on Substantia in 2020

A Three-Pole Supramolecular Switch†

scientific article published in 1999

A cyclam core dendrimer containing dansyl and oligoethylene glycol chains in the branches: protonation and metal coordination

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A fluorescent guest encapsulated by a photoreactive azobenzene dendrimer

A light-harvesting antenna resulting from the self-assembly of five luminescent components: a dendrimer, two clips, and two lanthanide ions

scientific article published in May 2010

A mechanically interlocked bundle.

scientific article published in April 2004

A molecular elevator.

scientific article published in March 2004

A molecular plug-socket connector

scientific article published on 28 March 2007

A photophysical study of terphenyl core oligosulfonimide dendrimers exhibiting high steady-state anisotropy

Absorption and emission properties of a 2-catenand, its protonated forms, and its complexes with Li+, Cu+, Ag+, Co2+, Ni2+, Zn2+, Pd2+ and Cd2+: tuning of the luminescence over the whole visible spectral region

Absorption and luminescence properties of 1, 10-phenanthroline, 2, 9-diphenyl-1, 10-phenanthroline, 2,9-dianisyl-1, 10-phenanthroline and their protonated forms in dichloromethane solution

Adducts between dansylated poly(propylene amine) dendrimers and anthracene clips mediated by Zn(II) ions: highly efficient photoinduced energy transfer

scientific article published in August 2009

Aggregation of self-assembling branched [n]rotaxanes

Amide-based molecular knots as platforms for fluorescent switches

Artificial Chemical Systems Capable of Mimicking Some Elementary Properties of Neurons

article by Fernando Pina et al published May 2000 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Artificial Molecular Motors and Machines: Design Principles and Prototype Systems

Artificial nanomachines based on interlocked molecular species: recent advances

scientific article published on 6 September 2006

Autonomous artificial nanomotor powered by sunlight

scholarly article

Azacrown Ethers with Naphthyl Branches. Fluorescence Properties, Protonation and Metal Coordination

article published in 2007

Azobenzene-Functionalized Cascade Molecules: Photoswitchable Supramolecular Systems

Azobenzene-Functionalized Cascade Molecules: Photoswitchable Supramolecular Systems

scientific article published on 16 April 1998

Blue and highly emitting [Ir(iv)] complexes by an efficient photoreaction of yellow luminescent [Ir(iii)] complexes

article by Enrico Marchi et al published 2014 in Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Complete charge pooling is prevented in viologen-based dendrimers by self-protection

scientific article published in December 2004

Complexes Containing 2,9-Bis(p-biphenylyl)-1,10-phenanthroline Units Incorporated into a 56-Membered Ring. Synthesis, Electrochemistry, and Photophysical Properties

article by Jean-Marc Kern et al published November 1997 in Inorganic Chemistry

Complexes of the Ruthenium(II)-2,2':6',2''-terpyridine Family. Effect of Electron-Accepting and -Donating Substituents on the Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties

Controllable donor-acceptor neutral [2]rotaxanes

scientific article published in December 2004

Controlled dethreading/rethreading of a scorpion-like pseudorotaxane and a related macrobicyclic self-complexing system

Controlled disassembling of self-assembling systems: toward artificial molecular-level devices and machines

scientific article

Controlling Catenations, Properties and Relative Ring-Component Movements in Catenanes with Aromatic Fluorine Substituents†

scientific article published in 1997

Controlling multivalent interactions in triply-threaded two-component superbundles.

scientific article published in November 2003

Coordination of Co2+Ions in the Interior of Poly(propylene amine) Dendrimers Containing Fluorescent Dansyl Units in the Periphery

scientific article published in 2000

Cyclam-based dendrimers as ligands for lanthanide ions

scientific article published on 16 April 2004

Dendrimers Based on Electroactive Metal Complexes. A Review of Recent Advances

article

Dendrimers as fluorescent sensors with signal amplification

Dendrimers as ligands. Formation of a 2:1 luminescent complex between a dendrimer with a 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane (cyclam) core and Zn2+.

scientific article published in April 2003

Dendrimers as ligands: an investigation into the stability and kinetics of Zn2+ complexation by dendrimers with 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane (cyclam) cores

scientific article published in February 2004

Dendrimers based on a bis-cyclam core as fluorescence sensors for metal ions

Dendrimers with a 4,4′-bipyridinium core and electron-donor branches. Electrochemical and spectroscopic properties

Dendrimers with a Photoactive and Redox-Active [Ru(bpy)3]2+-Type Core: Photophysical Properties, Electrochemical Behavior, and Excited-State Electron-Transfer Reactions

scientific article published in July 1999

Dendrimers with a cyclam core. Absorption spectra, multiple luminescence, and effect of protonation

Dendrimers with a pentaphenylene core: a photophysical study

scientific article published in January 2009

Designing Dendrimers Based on Transition-Metal Complexes. Light-Harvesting Properties and Predetermined Redox Patterns

article by Vincenzo Balzani et al published January 1998 in Accounts of Chemical Research

Designing light harvesting antennas by luminescent dendrimers

Designing systems for a multiple use of light signals

scientific article published in March 2004

Dicopper(I) trefoil knots and related unknotted molecular systems: influence of ring size and structural factors on their synthesis and electrochemical and excited-state properties

scientific article published in 1993

Editorial - Saving the planet and the human society: renewable energy, circular economy, sobriety

scholarly article published on Substantia in 2019

Effect of protons and metal ions on the fluorescence properties of a polylysin dendrimer containing twenty four dansyl units †

Electrochemically and Photochemically Driven Ring Motions in a Disymmetrical Copper [2]-Catenate.

scientific article

Electrochemistry of Multicomponent Systems. Redox Series Comprising up to 26 Reversible Reduction Processes in Polynuclear Ruthenium(II) Bipyridine-Type Complexes

scientific article published in November 1999

Electronic Energy Transfer in a Supramolecular Species Containing the[Ru(bpy)3]2+,[Os(bpy)3]2+, and Anthracene Chromophoric Units

scientific article published on 20 March 1995

Electronic energy transfer in bimetallic Ru-Os complexes containing the 3,5-bis(pyridin-2-yl)-1,2,4-triazolate bridging ligand

scientific article published in April 1991

Electronic energy transfer in supramolecular species. “Self-poisoning” and “self-educating” systems

scientific article published in September 1995

Electronic spectroscopy of metal complexes with dendritic ligands

Endoreceptors with Convergent Phenanthroline Units: A Molecular Cavity for Six Guest Molecules

Energy for a Sustainable World

Excited-state properties in supramolecular systems. Luminescence and intercomponent interactions in a 3-catenand and some 3-catenates

scientific article published in 1991

Ferrocene-containing carbohydrate dendrimers

scientific article

Fluorescent guests hosted in fluorescent dendrimers

Fluorescent water-soluble molecular clips. Self-association and formation of adducts in aqueous and methanol solutions

Forward (singlet-singlet) and backward (triplet-triplet) energy transfer in a dendrimer with peripheral naphthalene units and a benzophenone core

scientific article

Ground and excited-state electronic interactions in poly(propylene amine) dendrimers functionalized with naphthyl units: effect of protonation and metal complexation

scientific article

Host-guest complexes between an aromatic molecular tweezer and symmetric and unsymmetric dendrimers with a 4,4'-bipyridinium core

scientific article published in January 2006

Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes of Aromatic Crown Ethers with (9-Anthracenyl)methylammonium Derivatives. Supramolecular Photochemistry and Photophysics. pH-Controllable Supramolecular Switching†

scientific article published in 1997

Knotted Heterodinuclear Complexes

Ligand substitution patterns control photophysical properties of ruthenium(II)-2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridine complexes—room temperature emission from [Ru(tpy)2]2+ analogues

Light on molecular machines

article by Alberto Credi et al published 15 November 2010 in ChemPhysChem

Light powered molecular machines

scientific article published on 18 March 2009

Light-Harvesting Dendrimers: Efficient Intra- and Intermolecular Energy-Transfer Processes in a Species Containing 65 Chromophoric Groups of Four Different Types

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Light-harvesting dendrimers

scientific article published on December 2003

Light-powered molecular devices and machines

scientific article published on 26 October 2010

Light: A Very Peculiar Reactant and Product

article by Vincenzo Balzani et al published 31 August 2015 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Logic Operations at the Molecular Level. An XOR Gate Based on a Molecular Machine

article

Luminescence as a tool to investigate dendrimer properties

Luminescence properties of Eu3+, Tb3+, and Gd3+ complexes of the hexadentate N-donor podand tris-[3-(2-pyridyl) pyrazol-lyl]hydroborate

Luminescent and Redox-Active Polynuclear Transition Metal Complexes†

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

Luminescent dendrimers as ligands for metal ions

Luminescent dendrimers. Recent advances.

scientific article

Luminescent lanthanide ions hosted in a fluorescent polylysin dendrimer. Antenna-like sensitization of visible and near-infrared emission

scientific article published in June 2002

Macrocycles, pseudorotaxanes and catenanes containing a pyrrolo-tetrathiafulvalene unit: absorption spectra, luminescence properties and redox behavior

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Mechanisms for fluorescence depolarization in dendrimers

Mechanistic insights into two-photon-driven photocatalysis in organic synthesis.

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Molecular Machines

Molecular architecture in the field of photonic devices

scientific article published in September 1999

Molecular clips with extended aromatic sidewalls as receptors for electron-acceptor molecules. Synthesis and NMR, photophysical, and electrochemical properties

scientific article published on 9 July 2008

Molecular devices

Molecular logic circuits

Molecular machines working on surfaces and at interfaces

Molecular meccano. 1. [2]Rotaxanes and a [2]catenane made to order

scientific article published in 1992

Multistate/Multifunctional Molecular-Level Systems: Light and pH Switching between the Various Forms of a Synthetic Flavylium Salt

article published in 1998

Multistate/multifunctional behaviour of 4'-hydroxy-6-nitroflavylium: a write-lock/read/unlock/enable-erase/erase cycle driven by light and pH stimulation

scientific article published in March 2004

Multistate/multifunctional systems. A thermodynamic, kinetic, and photochemical investigation of the 4'-dimethylaminoflavylium compound

scientific article published in January 2003

Nanoscience and nanotechnology: a personal view of a chemist

scholarly article by Vincenzo Balzani published March 2005 in Small

Nature of the lowest energy excited state of a bis-phenanthroline [2]-catenand and its Cu(I), Ag(I) and Co(II) complexes

Old molecules, new concepts: [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) as a molecular encoder-decoder

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Oligocatenanes Made to Order1

scientific article published in 1998

Operating molecular elevators.

scientific article published in February 2006

Photochemical and photophysical properties of a poly(propylene amine) dendrimer functionalized with E-stilbene units

scientific article

Photochemical and photophysical properties of poly(propylene amine) dendrimers with peripheral naphthalene and azobenzene groups

scientific article published in January 2002

Photochemical conversion of solar energy

scientific article published on January 2008

Photochemical molecular devices

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Photochemical, photophysical and electrochemical properties of six dansyl-based dyadsDedicated to Professor Alex von Zelewsky on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Ruthenium

Photochemistry and photocatalysis

scholarly article by Vincenzo Balzani et al published 24 October 2016 in Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Atti. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali. Rendiconti

Photochemistry and photophysics of Ru(II)polypyridine complexes in the Bologna group. From early studies to recent developments

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Photochemistry and photophysics of metal complexes with dendritic ligands

Photochemistry of a Dumbbell-Shaped Multicomponent System Hosted Inside the Mesopores of Al/MCM-41 Aluminosilicate. Generation of Long-Lived Viologen Radicals

scientific article published in December 2003

Photochemistry of supramolecular and species

scientific article published in January 1990

Photochromism of 4‘-Methoxyflavylium Perchlorate. A “Write−Lock−Read−Unlock−Erase” Molecular Switching System

scientific article published in 1997

Photoinduced Processes in Dinuclear Complexes Containing Rigid Bridging Ligands

scientific article published in August 1994

Photoinduced Processes in Dyads Made of a Porphyrin Unit and a Ruthenium Complex

Photoinduced electron flow in a self-assembling supramolecular extension cable

scholarly article

Photoinduced electron transfer in a triad that can be assembled/disassembled by two different external inputs. Toward molecular-level electrical extension cables

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Photoinduced energy- and electron-transfer processes in dinuclear Ru(II)-Os(II), Ru(II)-Os(III), and Ru(III)-Os(II) trisbipyridine complexes containing a shape-persistent macrocyclic spacer.

scientific article published in January 2006

Photoinduced processes in 4′-(9-anthryl)-2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridine, its protonated forms and Zn(II), Ru(II) and Os(II) complexes

Photonic Wires of Nanometric Dimensions. Electronic Energy Transfer in Rigid Rodlike Ru(bpy)32+-(ph)n-Os(bpy)32+Compounds (ph = 1,4-Phenylene;n= 3, 5, 7)

scientific article published in May 1999

Photophysical, photochemical, and electrochemical properties of dendrimers with a dimethoxybenzil core

Photoredox Catalysis: The Need to Elucidate the Photochemical Mechanism

Photoredox Catalysis: The Need to Elucidate the Photochemical Mechanism

scientific article

Photoswitchable dendritic hosts: a dendrimer with peripheral azobenzene groups

article published in 2007

Poly(Propylene Amine) Dendrimers with Peripheral Dansyl Units: Protonation, Absorption Spectra, Photophysical Properties, Intradendrimer Quenching, and Sensitization Processes

scientific article published in 1999

Poly(propylene amine) Dendrimers Decorated with Dimethoxybenzene Units. Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties

Polynuclear complexes of tris(bipyridine) bridging ligands. Energy transfer from Ru-based to Os-based components

scientific article published in December 1991

Polysulfurated pyrene-cored dendrimers: luminescent and electrochromic properties

scientific article

Polyvalent scaffolds. Counting the number of seats available for eosin guest molecules in viologen-based host dendrimers

scientific article

Polyviologen dendrimers as hosts and charge-storing devices.

scientific article published in January 2008

Processing energy and signals by molecular and supramolecular systems

scientific article published in January 2008

Proton-driven self-assembled systems based on cyclam-cored dendrimers and [Ru(bpy)(CN)4]2-.

scientific article published in December 2004

Protonation of free 2,9-bis(p-biphenylyl)-1,10-phenanthrolinesites in a 56-membered macrocycle and in its ReIand CuIcomplexes Absorption spectra, luminescence properties, and excited state interactions

Redox-controllable amphiphilic [2]rotaxanes

scientific article published in January 2004

Rigid Rod-Like Dinuclear Ru(II)/Os(II) Terpyridine-Type Complexes. Electrochemical Behavior, Absorption Spectra, Luminescence Properties, and Electronic Energy Transfer through Phenylene Bridges

scientific article published in 1994

Rotaxanes Incorporating Two Different Coordinating Units in Their Thread: Synthesis and Electrochemically and Photochemically Induced Molecular Motions

scientific article published in 1999

Ru(II)-bipyridine complexes in supramolecular systems, devices and machines

RuII-Polypyridine Complexes Covalently Linked to Electron Acceptors as Wires for Light-Driven Pseudorotaxane-Type Molecular Machines

Ruthenium(II) and Osmium(II) Bis(terpyridine) Complexes in Covalently-Linked Multicomponent Systems: Synthesis, Electrochemical Behavior, Absorption Spectra, and Photochemical and Photophysical Properties

scholarly article by Jean Pierre Sauvage et al published June 1994 in Chemical Reviews

Self-Assembly of [n]Rotaxanes Bearing Dendritic Stoppers⊥

scientific article published in 1996

Self-assembly of a light-harvesting antenna formed by a dendrimer, a Ru(II) complex, and a Nd(III) ion

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Shape-persistent macrocycles functionalised with coumarin dyes: acid-controlled energy- and electron-transfer processes

scientific article

Simple Mechanical Molecular and Supramolecular Machines: Photochemical and Electrochemical Control of Switching Processes

article by Peter R. Ashton et al published January 1997 in Chemistry—A European Journal

Simple and Dendritic Cyclam Derivatives. Photophysical Properties, Effect of Protonation and Zn2+Coordination, Preliminary Screening as Inhibitors of Tumour Cell Growth

Solar Electricity and Solar Fuels: Status and Perspectives in the Context of the Energy Transition

scientific article

Supramolecular Photochemistry and Photophysics. A [3]-Catenand and its Mononuclear and Homo- and Heterodinuclear [3]-Catenates

scientific article published in 1994

Supramolecular dendrimers with a [Ru(bpy)3]2+ core and naphthyl peripheral units

scientific article published in 1999

Supramolecular photochemistry

Supramolecular photochemistry and photophysics. Biacetyl imprisoned in a hemicarcerand

Switchable photoreduction pathways of antimony(V) tetraphenylporphyrin. A potential multielectron transfer photosensitizer

scholarly article by Günther Knör et al published 1996 in Chemical Communications

Synthesis and photophysical properties of chiral, binuclear metal complexes

scientific article published in March 1997

Synthesis of small gold nanoparticles: Au(I) disproportionation catalyzed by a persulfurated coronene dendrimer

Synthesis, X-ray Structure, and Electrochemical and Excited-State Properties of Multicomponent Complexes Made of a [Ru(Tpy)2]2+Unit Covalently Linked to a [2]-Catenate Moiety. Controlling the Energy-Transfer Direction by Changing the Catenate Metal I

scientific article published in 1999

Tetrathiafulvalenenaphthalenophanes: planar chirality and cis/trans photoisomerization

The Beauty of Chemistry in the Words of Writers and in the Hands of Scientists

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

The Cultural Revolution: Ecological and Social

scientific article published in 2022

The Universe, the Light, the Earth, the Life: the Reality is Greater than We Are

scholarly article published on Substantia in 2020

The bottom-up approach to molecular-level devices and machines

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The electrochemically-driven decomplexation/recomplexation of inclusion adducts of ferrocene derivatives with an electron-accepting receptor

The future of energy supply: Challenges and opportunities

scientific article published on January 2007

The hydrogen issue

scientific article published on 30 December 2010

The legacy of fossil fuels

scientific article

Toward Photoswitchable Dendritic Hosts. Interaction between Azobenzene-Functionalized Dendrimers and Eosin

scientific article published in December 1998

Towards an electricity-powered world

Tweezering the core of a dendrimer: a photophysical and electrochemical study

pH-Controlled Photochromism of Hydroxyflavylium Ions