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Scotland honours Ed!
The Royal Society of Edinburgh has announced that Ed Constable has been appointed a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Solar energy conversion using first row d-block metal coordination compound sensitizers and redox mediators
Renewable energy is essential for the future of the Earth and this review surveys the recent development of dye-sensitized solar cells for the conversion of solar-to-electrical energy with a focus on the use of coordination compounds of the…
Mariia Becker wins Special Sponsor Award for her conference talk
Dr. Mariia Becker has won one of the Special Sponsor Awards for the talk "There Is a Future for N-Heterocyclic Carbene Iron(II) Dyes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: the Dependency of Performance on Electrolyte Composition and Dye Structure"…
Stars and stripes: hexatopic tris(3,2′:6′,3″- terpyridine) ligands that unexpectedly form onedimensional coordination polymers
Stars and stripes: hexatopic tris(3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine) ligands that unexpectedly form one-dimensional coordination polymers The preparation of a series of arene-centred tris(4,2′:6′,4″-terpyridine) and tris(3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine)…
Paracelsus erhält eine Gedenktafel an der Universität Basel
Die Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz ehrt das Schaffen des Schweizer Arztes, Alchemisten und Naturphilosophen Paracelsus in Basel mit dem Chemical Landmark 2020. Am Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel wurde eine Gedenktafel…
A counterion study of a series of [Cu(P^P)(N^N)][A] compounds with bis(phosphane) and 6-methyl and 6,6′-dimethyl-substituted 2,2′-bipyridine ligands for light-emitting electrochemical cells
The choice of counterion in heteroleptic copper(I) luminophores for LECs has a critical effect on the photoluminescence quantum yields of the solid materials, and on the device figures-of-merit.
Coordination networks assembled from Co(NCS)2 and 4′-[4-(naphthalen-1-yl)phenyl]-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine: Role of lattice solvents
The dependence upon the assemblies of coordination networks formed between 4′-[4-(naphthalen-1-yl)phenyl]-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine and Co(NCS)2 on the lattice solvent is reported, and thermogravimetric analysis was used to investigate solvent…
An ironclad future
Solar energy plays an important role in the fight against climate change as a substitute for fossil fuels. Dye-sensitized solar cells promise to be a low-cost supplement to the photovoltaic systems we know today. Their key feature is the…
TADF: Enabling luminescent copper(I) coordination compounds for light-emitting electrochemical cells
Over the last ten years, there has been growing interest in the development of luminescent heteroleptic copper(i) coordination compounds. These developments encompass both neutral compounds which may have applications in OLEDs and cationic…