Hongfei Pan

Sep 24, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Yi Zhu |Processing Wuhan |Hongfei Pan |Qi Li

1 Introduction The development and utilization of hydrogen energy—a green source of energy with high energy density of hydrogen (143 MJ·kg−1)—can effectively mitigate the energy crisis and environmental problems caused by the excessive exploitation of fossil fuels.[1, 2] However, storage and transportation issues limit their widespread application because of difficulties in compressing hydrogen as a liquid.

Jun 28, 2024 | pubs.rsc.org | Houchen Wang |JiaJun Liu |Hongfei Pan |Zhijian J. Chen

Pathway complexity in aqueous J-aggregation of an ionic BODIPY amphiphile A new amphiphilic boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) dye bearing a hydrophobic 2,3,4-tris (n-dodecyloxy) phenyl group at the meso-position and two hydrophilic cationic moieties at the boron was synthesized. This dye exhibited kinetic-controlled and thermodyanmic-controlled aggregation pathways in the aqueous solution, leading to the formation of two type of J-aggregates, i.e. the metastable Agg.