Photoinactivation of Staphylococcus aureus has been achieved using a hexanuclear molybdenum cluster, [Mo ₆ I ₈ (CH ₃ COO) ₆ ] ²⁻ , supported on a polystyrene matrix.

A new family of fluorescent synthetic molecular probes for nitric oxide sensing based on ortho-hydroxyamino-triarylpyrylium salts is presented.

The fluorescence of pyrene has been used for the first time to measure the static dielectric constant of a series of supported ionic liquids phases (SILPs) based on polymeric polystyrene networks.