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Acenes emitting rainbow of colors
A rendering of stylized molecules known as acenes, emitting red, orange, yellow, green, and blue light. Acenes are chains of fused carbon-containing rings that have unique optoelectronic properties, which make them useful as semiconductors.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant CHE 2018870.]
Learn more in the MIT news story Chemists create organic molecules in a rainbow of colors. (Date of image: Unknown; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Jan. 19, 2024)
Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT
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