A new approach captures ultra-thin pentacene film growth in real time, explaining the origin of grooves at silica–gold electrode interfaces. Imagine being able to follow individual molecules as they ...

Due to their high hole mobility, pentacene and its derivatives have been the representative organic semiconductors and have been the subject of much research, both basic and applied. In particular, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The above image is a photo of a pentacene molecule. Not a drawing. A photo. Taken by researchers at IBM’s Zurich lab. The tip of this microscope employs one oxygen atom bonded to one carbon atom. It’s ...

Light instability is a major factor preventing organic semiconductors from being implemented. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University demonstrated the ultrafast intersystem crossing of the ...

Researchers break barriers in imaging larger molecules with atomic force microscopy, revealing pentacene's details. With a lot of skillful maneuverings, a team of researchers have finally found a way ...

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 ...

Nanoscopically confined polymer films are known to exhibit substantially depressed glass transition temperatures ( $T_{\text{g}}$ 's) as compared to the corresponding ...

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 ...