A new family of stable layered organic-inorganic materials has been prepared, in one-step solvothermal process. They are based on an ordered nickel cluster-type nanoribbons separated from each other by specific alkyl (heptyl- or dodecyl-) arylic mono-carboxylate moieties acting as molecular spacers, perpendicular to the 1D inorganic chains. These organic spacers contain hydrocarbon tails with d...

The resolution capability of the scanning electron microscope has increased immensely in recent years, and is now within the sub-nanometre range, at least for inorganic materials. An equivalent advance has not yet been achieved for imaging the morphologies of nanostructured organic materials, such as organic photovoltaic blends. Here we show that energy-selective secondary electron detection ca...

The excitations in organic materials are often described by Frenkel excitons, whose wave functions are tightly localized on the individual molecules, which results in short-range, nanoscale transport. However, under strong light-molecule coupling, new quantum states, known as cavity polaritons, are formed and the wave functions describing the coupled system extend over distances much larger tha...

Phthalocyanines and their main group and metal complexes are important classes of organic semiconductor materials but are usually highly insoluble and so frequently need to be processed by vacuum deposition in devices. We report two highly soluble silicon phthalocyanine (SiPc) diester compounds and demonstrate their potential as organic semiconductor materials. Near-infrared (λ(EL) = 698-709 nm...

A goal of molecular materials chemistry is to develop synthetic strategies for the precise placement of molecular building blocks at nano-and mesoscale levels. If the building blocks comprise both organic and inorganic moieties, the resultant hybrid composites have the advantage of combining complementary strengths from two different chemical worlds. By piecing together a judicious choice of th...

In this study, poultry manure compost and organic fertilizer were added to soils derived from basalt, granite, and river alluvial deposits for use as soil parent materials. Following incubation periods of 30 or 60 days at 25 °C, the physical and chemical properties and adsorption characteristics of the soils were studied. The results indicated that the application of poultry manure compost or o...

The particular challenge of micro-patterning organic materials has stimulated numerous approaches for making effective and repeatable patterned structures with fine features. Among all the micro-patterning techniques photolithography, being the preferred method for the inorganic semiconductor industry, did not create much impact due to its incompatibility with the majority of organic electronic...

The diffusion coefficient (D(m)) and material/air partition coefficient (K) are two key parameters characterizing the formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds (VOC) sorption behavior in building materials. By virtue of the sorption process in airtight chamber, this paper proposes a novel method to measure the two key parameters, as well as the convective mass transfer coefficient (h(m)). Com...