Themed collection 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship shortlisted candidates

Biosensors are versatile in many applications, but their adoption as reliable point-of-care tests is hindered by challenges in systematic optimization. Experimental design provides a solution by guiding their effective development and refinement.

This review focuses on the advancements in stability of perovskite solar cells under stress from ambient moisture, high temperatures, and UV light exposure.

An overview of the properties of chitosan-based materials: polyelectrolyte complexes, gels, chitosan-surfactant complexes, smart coatings, organic–inorganic hybrids.

An alumina interlayer is developed to facilitate state-of-the-art spray coated perovskite photovoltaics. This enables deposition onto the Me4PACz self-assembled monolayer (SAMs) resulting in power conversion efficiencies >20%.

CoS/FeS₂ heterojunction nanosheets on a MXene with excellent electrocatalytic OER performance are realized by a dual molten salt etching strategy.

The NMC–RGO framework can reduce the contact area between solid electrolytes and carbon in the composite cathode while this unique structure can provide facile electron transport pathways to the NMC through the RGO framework.

Linearly and circularly polarized Raman spectroscopy allows to identify crystallographic faces, chiral axis orientation and crystal handedness of chiral tellurium, interesting toward the development of multifunctional devices.

Water quality monitoring is an essential tool in effective environmental and public health protection.

We report semitransparent NIR perovskite photodetectors based on tin–lead hybrid perovskites, by using very thin film perovskite layers and transparent indium tin oxide electrodes.

Perovskite solar cells formed from a 2D/3D bilayer perovskite thin film, where 2D perovskites were created by novel conjugated molecules, exhibited a power conversion efficiency of 21.98% and a dramatically boosted stability was demonstrated.

Changes in perovskite structural dimensionality brought by mixing A-site cations play an important role in determining the measured charge carrier mobility, and in the solar cell performance.

Experimental and theoretical study on the effect of shallow and deep defects on photovoltaic performance, luminescence, surface photovoltage, and density of states.