Exciton diffusion and hole transfer play crucial roles in the efficient generation of charge carriers in organic photovoltaic systems. The precise manipulation of this carrier generation mechanism has been successfully realized through the ternary approach of creating acceptor alloys within the donor-acceptor system. The incorporation of this acceptor alloy has proven to significantly decrease the trap density within the system, enhancing overall efficiency. More details are discussed in the article by Hao et al. on pages 1275—1283.

Exploiting chirality transfer between achiral building blocks and chiral induced reagents (CIR) is important to construct chiral metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Here, achiral tetradentate ligands with intrinsic spontaneous resolution can form the absolute configuration through chiral induction. Conversely, the nonchiralization of CIR causes the disappearance of symmetry breaking of tetradentate ligands. These results are meaningful to develop chiral crystal engineering of MOFs. More details are discussed in the article by Ma et al. on page 1260—1266.

A general protocol for the photoinduced dehalocyclization of ortho-halophenylacrylamides with formate has been reported using a CO₂ radical anion to access substituted oxindoles.

The incorporation of valine residues into the polypeptide coatings significantly reduced the macrophage uptake of the nanoparticles, which was not observed for the nanoparticles modified with other amino acid residues like leucine, phenylalanine, isoleucine, and norvaline.

Destructive quantum interference of the m-OPE molecules was consistently regulated by substituents with progressively heightened electron effect.

A visible-light-enabled, photocatalyst-free hydroacylation reaction of azodicarboxylic acid derivatives was described, which relied on the dual role of 4-acyl-1,4-dihydropyridine (acyl-DHP) reagents.

A twisted organic difluoroboron β-diketonate phosphor possessing intramolecular charge transfer character and flexible molecular structure was doped into different organic matrices to fabricate phosphorescence materials. The twisted phosphor adopts different conformation in different matrices. Consequently, the dopant-matrix systems break T₁ energy conservation and exhibit distinct phosphorescence wavelengths, violating Kasha's exciton model.

Seventeen new lindenane sesquiterpenoid dimers (LSDs), chlorajaponins A—Q (1—17), including two rearranged skeleton meroterpenoids (1—2), and 13 reported analogs (18—30) were isolated from the Chloranthus japonicus Sieb. Compounds 1, 2, and 18 demonstrated significant inhibitory effects on lipid accumulation, dose-dependently reduced TG and TC levels, and significantly downregulated expression of FASN and SERBP1 validated by western blot assay. Moreover, compounds 19—22 and 25 exhibited the most potent anti-inflammatory effects with IC₅₀ values of 7.89, 6.25, 2.98, 10.77, and 3.60 μmol/L, respectively.

Chiral induction agent can control the formation of the absolute configuration of racemate ligands. Two pairs of homochiral metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) were synthesized with the presence of enantiopure camphoric acid (D/L-cam). Importantly, DCF-17 and LCF-17 exhibit the efficient circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) activity with a luminescence dissymmetry factor (g_lum) value of –1.0 × 10^–2 and +9.2 ×10^–3, respectively.

We report here the concise total syntheses of four laurane-type and guaiane-type sesquiterpenoids via oxidative Nazarov reaction, using unfunctionalized TDCs as the substrates.

This work demonstrates the feasibility of regulating exciton diffusion and hole transfer to promote efficient charge generation, and achieving high-performance OPV devices by increasing short-circuit current density. Fast and efficient charge generation requires an increased exciton diffusion length and faster hole transfer. In addition, the reduced trap state in the ternary system is also beneficial for reducing recombination of charges. This work reveals the co-mechanism of charge generation and trap state on J_SC.

In this review, we address the important role of hydrogen bonding in improving perovskite solar devices through various additives.

Organic solar cells (OSCs) represent a burgeoning photovoltaic technology with vast potential in multi-purpose applications, including power generators and flexible electronics. Recently, to achieve high-performance OSCs, an emerging molecular design strategy of applying flexible alkyl units as linkers to construct non-fully conjugated photovoltaic materials has been developed and addressed great attention. More details are discussed in the article by Zhang et al. on page 1307—1318.

Oxidative Nazarov reaction is a novel method that undergoes Nazarov electrocyclization and simultaneous oxidation, thus providing straightforward access to various cyclopentenone-containing natural products, such as laurane and guaiane sesquiterpenoids, from unfunctionalized divinyl tertiary carbinols (TDCs). More details are discussed in the article by Xu et al. on page 1267—1274.