Publications by authors named "Maria J Alvaro-Martins"

Heptagon-containing distorted nanographenes are used as stoppers for the capping of a [2]rotaxane through a Michael-type addition reaction to vinyl sulfone groups. These curved aromatics are bulky enough to prevent the disassembly of the rotaxane but also give emissive and nonlinear (two-photon absorption and emission) optical properties to the structure.

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-1,2-di(1-pyrenylamino)cycloxexane was found to display circularly polarized excimer emission ( = 0.016) both in polar and non-polar solvents that is assigned to charge separation symmetry breaking on the basis of its large transition state dipole moment (12.1 D).

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Cancer is a generic term for a large group of diseases that are the second-leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020. Melanoma is a highly aggressive skin tumor with an increasing incidence and poor prognosis in the metastatic stage. Breast cancer still stands as one of the major cancer-associated deaths among women, and diagnosed cases are increasing year after year worldwide.

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  • The study focuses on synthesizing and characterizing specific dyes (diketopyrrolopyrroles and perylenemonoimidodiesters) that are connected to substituted benzoic acids positioned differently (ortho, meta, and para) on a silica surface.
  • The results show that the arrangement of these dyes on silica nanohelices influences their optical properties, particularly in terms of how they emit light and exhibit chiroptical effects.
  • Ortho derivatives showed poor dye organization due to steric hindrance, leading to lower emission properties, while para derivatives achieved better organization and higher chiroptical values, despite varying excimer emissions across all types.
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Four star-shaped electron acceptors (C -OPh, C -OPh, C -Cl and C -Cl) based on a subphthalocyanine core bearing three diketopyrrolopyrrole wings linked by an acetylene bridge have been synthesized. These derivatives feature two different axial substituents (i. e.

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