Previously, we reported a method for facile purification of oligonucleotides labeled with hydrophobic dyes, based on the solubility difference between the hydrophilic DNA and unreacted dye. Here, we present a new purification method applicable to any dye regardless of its hydrophobicity. We exploited the population shift of a fluorescent dye in a low-pH aqueous solution from its anionic form to...

The efficiency of HZSM-5 Zeolite, tungestophosphoric acid (H3PW12O40) and tungestosililic acid (H4O40SiW12) were investigated in three-component, one-pot synthesis of coumarin dyes. These green and noncorrosive acids were highly efficient in synthesis of some coumarin dyes in excellent yield during concurrent formation of coumarin and benzimidazole or benzoxazole heterocycles (e.g. C. I. disper...

The hierarchically macro/micro-porous silicon-carbon-nitrogen (Si-C-N) hybrid material was presented with novel functionalities of totally selective and highly efficient adsorption for organic dyes. The hybrid material was conveniently generated by the pyrolysis of commercial polysilazane precursors using polydivinylbenzene microspheres as sacrificial templates. Owing to the Van der Waals force...

To understand the importance of the organic material of type donor-π-acceptor dyes (D-π-A), used for dyesensitized solar cells (DSSCs), we present in this paper the result of six compounds based on thienopyrazine (D1-D6) studied by density functional theory (DFT) and time dependent DFT (TD-DFT) approaches to shed light on how the π-conjugation order influence the performance of the dyes. The el...

The oxidizing ability of organic dyes is enhanced significantly by photoexcitation. Radical cations of weak electron donors can be produced by electron transfer from the donors to the excited states of organic dyes. The radical cations thus produced undergo bond formation reactions with various nucleophiles. For example, the direct oxygenation of benzene to phenol was made possible under visibl...

Hexagonal single crystal WO(3) nanorods with dominant (001) and (1 ̄10) facets were synthesized, which exhibited high adsorption capacities for organic dyes.

A multifunctional Cu(I) coordination polymer constructed from helical chains showed unusual mechanochromic, sensing of nitrobenzene and photocatalytic properties on degradation of organic dyes.

The photothermal effect is the generation of heat by molecules or particles upon high-energy laser irradiation, and near-infrared absorbers such as gold nanoparticles and organic dyes have a range of potential photothermal applications. The favourable photothermal properties of thiophene-functionalised croconaine dyes were recently discovered. The synthesis and properties of novel croconaine ro...