Here, we report a short series of six new boron Schiff bases (BOSCHIBAs), four them bearing anionic clusters. The complexes (1–2) were synthesized by the multicomponent reaction. Boron appropriately functionalized with cluster anions [B12H12]2? (3–4) and [3,3’-Co(C2B9H11)2]? (5–6). Remarkably, BOSCHIBAs showed fluorescence emission to NIR far-red regions (3: 747 nm, 4: 690 nm), while 5 6 exhibi...

Photostability of colloidal quantum dots (QDs) is one the major criteria determining their long-term applicability in energy and chemical technologies. Yet, photostability studies QDs are extremely sensitive to experimental conditions, lack a detailed mechanistic understanding, time-, material-, labor-intensive. Herein, an automated microfluidic platform for accelerated introduced, 3.5× faster ...

Carbon materials are excellent candidates for photovoltaic solar cells: they are Earth-abundant, possess high optical absorption, and maintain superior thermal and photostability. Here we report on solar cells with active layers made solely of carbon nanomaterials that present the same advantages of conjugated polymer-based solar cells, namely, solution processable, potentially flexible, and ch...

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) offer several advantages over organic dyes in fluorescence-imaging applications, such as higher quantum yield, exceptional photostability, and a narrow, tunable, and symmetric emission spectrum. To explore whether QDs could specifically and effectively label tumor markers and be used in immunohistochemistry as a novel type of fluorescent probe, we used quantum d...