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Thermoresponsive Liquid Crystalline Polymer Coatings Programmed by Field‐Induced Topological Defects for Tunable Optical and Topographical Responses

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Resonant standing waves generate large‐area lattices of liquid‐crystal topological defects that are permanently encoded into polymer coatings by photopolymerization. The preserved director architecture produces thermally reconfigurable surface topographies while maintaining programmable optical functionality, demonstrating a scalable strategy for ...
Jacques A. Peixoto, Mufeeduzaman Chavilkkadan, Alexander Fusi, Marko Beslać, Dirk J. Broer, Etienne Brasselet, Danqing Liu   +6 more
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High‐Efficiency Deep Blue Single‐Gaussian Europium(II) Emitters and Their Emitter‐Host Interactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Crown‐ether ligands and carborate anions enable vacuum‐processable Eu(II) emitters with efficient single‐Gaussian deep‐blue luminescence. Combined photophysical and computational analyses reveal that excited‐electron confinement and steric shielding of the europium center jointly govern compatibility with OLED host materials, establishing molecular ...
Mahmoud Soleimani, Paulius Imbrasas, Jan‐Michael Mewes, Felix Kaden, Stephanie Anna Buchholtz, Karl Leo, Sebastian Schellhammer, Carsten Rothe, Sebastian Reineke   +8 more
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Wannier functions of defective photonic crystals with broken translational symmetry

Scientific Reports
Wannier functions offer a complete and well-suited real-space description for perfect crystals, based on localized states. With broken crystalline translational symmetry, however, direct unitary transformation from Bloch functions is not straightforward.
Piyali Biswas, Heejin Choi, Heejeong Jeong, Na Young Kim, Chang-Won Lee   +4 more
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Photo‐Switchable Molecular Module Programming PET Biodegradation in Aquatic Environments

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We address the plastic durability paradox by integrating an itaconic acid–derived pyrrolidone module into polymer backbones. Sunlight in water triggers Norrish Type I ring‐opening and hydrophilization, enabling rapid biodegradation into nontoxic minerals.
Mohammad Asif Ali, Jixin Zheng, Satoshi Wakai, Jie Liu, Hidetaka Nomaki, Misato Tsukatani, Noriyuki Isobe, Jingcheng Sang, Yuriko Aoki, Hideo Okamura, Daisuke Sasaki, Chiaki Ogino, Yuzo Yamazaki, Takashi Nishikaze, Kenji Takada, Maiko K. Okajima, Tatsuo Kaneko   +16 more
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In-situ multicore fibre-based pH mapping through obstacles in integrated microfluidic devices

Scientific Reports
Microfluidic systems with integrated sensors are ideal platforms to study and emulate processes such as complex multiphase flow and reactive transport in porous media, numerical modeling of bulk systems in medicine, and in engineering.
Harikumar K. Chandrasekharan, Krystian L. Wlodarczyk, William N. MacPherson, M. Mercedes Maroto-Valer   +3 more
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The Boston University Photonics Center annual report 2006-2007 [PDF]

, 2007
This repository item contains an annual report that summarizes activities of the Boston University Photonics Center in the 2006-2007 academic year. The report provides quantitative and descriptive information regarding photonics programs in education ...
The Boston University Photonics Center
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Architecture‐Driven Functional Coupling in Vertically Aligned Nanocomposites

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Vertically aligned nanocomposites define a growth‐engineered architecture in which vertical interfaces, strain fields, defect pathways, and phase connectivity are created simultaneously. This review shows how these architectural features couple ferroic, optical, ionic, electrochemical, and device responses, establishing design rules and open challenges
Md Shatil Islam‐Shanto, Javier Zamudio‐García, Abraham Sánchez‐Caballero, David Marrero‐López, Vincenzo Esposito   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ground‐State Charge‐Transfer Doping in Donor–Acceptor Semiconducting Polymers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work demonstrates controlled ground‐state charge‐transfer complex formation (GS‐CTC) and doping in a series of diketopyrrolopyrrole‐based donor–acceptor semiconducting polymers paired with a π‐conjugated penta‐t‐butylpentacyanopentabenzo[25]annulene “cyanostar” macrocycle. Complementary experimental techniques show how subtle molecular, electronic,
Tanner L. Smith, Akshay N. Shah, Tanya A. Balandin, Michel De Keersmaecker, Paramasivam Mahalingam, Debapriya Gupta, Siqi Yu, Eui Hyun Suh, Pushkar Dalal, Erin L. Ratcliff, Scott P. O. Danielsen, Tse Nga Ng, Amar H. Flood, Jason D. Azoulay   +13 more
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Experimental observation of superdiffusive transport in random dimer lattices

New Journal of Physics, 2013
We experimentally observe anomalous wavepacket evolution in a realization of a one-dimensional finite binary Anderson model in the presence of short-range correlations. To this end, we employ weakly-coupled optical waveguides with propagation constants ε
U Naether, S Stützer, R A Vicencio, M I Molina, A Tünnermann, S Nolte, T Kottos, D N Christodoulides, A Szameit   +8 more
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Covalent Functionalization of 2D Semiconductors: A Roadmap to Advanced Electronic Devices

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review presents recent advances in the covalent functionalization strategies for two‐dimensional semiconductors and their implementation in modern technologies. Layered materials are modified through diverse molecular chemistries (e.g., thiols, diazonium salts, alkyl halides, and electron‐deficient species) to tailor their surface properties ...
Ramiro Quirós‐Ovies, Bin Han, Paolo Samorì   +2 more
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