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Co-crystals give light a tune-up

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Stacking of a chromophoric molecule in the solid state has been altered rationally by the formation of co-crystals, allowing fine control of luminescence.

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Figure 1: Effects of crystallizing chromophore 1 on its own and co-crystallizing it with compound 2.

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  1. James D. Wuest is in the Département de Chimie, Université de Montréal, 2900 Édouard-Montpetit, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada,

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Wuest, J. Co-crystals give light a tune-up. Nature Chem 4, 74–75 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1256

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