As the price of energy continues to rise, businesses are looking to renewable energy for cheaper sources of power. Making electricity from the most plentiful of these sources - the sun -can be ...

This is 9,10,11,20,21,22-hexaphenyltetrabenzo[a,c,l,n]pentacene, the most highly twisted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ever prepared. Its X-ray structure shows an end-to-end twist of 144°. Unlike ...

A team led by Kunzmann reported carrier multiplication of nearly 130% by harnessing singlet fission to inject electrons from pentacene-based molecules into a dye-sensitized solar cell. Published in ...

University of Rochester physicists have learned why Pentacene, the leading candidate for developing organic semiconductors, conducts electricity in inconsistent ways rather than with predictable ...

As the price of energy continues to rise, businesses are looking to renewable energy for cheaper sources of power. Making electricity from the most plentiful of these sources - the sun -can be ...

Using an atomic-force microscope, scientists at IBM Research in Zurich have for the first time made an atomic-scale resolution image of a single molecule, the hydrocarbon pentacene. Atomic-force ...

Thanks to specialised microscopes, we have long been able to see the beauty of single atoms. But strange though it might seem, imaging larger molecules at the same level of detail has not been ...

If you've ever taken a chemistry class, you have seen plenty of diagrams of molecules. If you made it to organic chemistry, you fiddled with one of the tinker-toy-like molecule kits, building your own ...

Research in the field of material science and electronics relies on the innovative arrangement of molecules or atoms to develop materials with unique properties not found in conventional materials.

Imagine trying to read braille printed on wet tissue paper. That's what it's been like trying to take a picture of a molecule. Advanced electron microscopes can get amazing resolution, fine enough to ...