In their CrystEngComm Hot Article, O-Pil Kwon and colleagues have developed a new cation core structure, N-benzyl stilbazolium nonlinear optical chromophore with a non-polar benzyl group to achieve acentric molecular ordering in the crystalline state.
Acentric nonlinear optical N-benzyl stilbazolium crystals with high environmental stability and enhanced molecular nonlinearity in solid state
Pil-Joo Kim, Jae-Hyeok Jeong, Mojca Jazbinsek, Seong-Ji Kwon, Hoseop Yun, Jong-Taek Kim, Yoon Sup Lee, In-Hyung Baek, Fabian Rotermund, Peter Günter and O-Pil Kwon
CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00456A
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