Rational Construction of Highly Tunable Donor-Acceptor Materials Based on a Crystalline Host-Guest Platform

Da-Shuai Zhang1,2, Qiang Gao2,3, Ze Chang2,3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China.

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