Themed collection Journal of Materials Chemistry C Recent Review Articles

Metal-oxide semiconductors are considered promising alternative materials in the field of flat panel display industry due to their advantages, such as high mobility, transparency, uniformity, low production cost, and large-area processability.

This perspective offers insights from discussions conducted during the Telluride Science meeting on organic mixed ionic and electronic conductors, outlining the challenges associated with understanding the behavior of this intriguing materials class.

We summarized the recent progress and perspectives of Pockels electro-optic materials thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) and electro-optic polymer (EOP) for next-generation wide-bandwidth and low-power electro-optic modulation.

This perspective discusses the recent progress and efforts on the interface engineering of water-resistant perovskite nanocrystals as fluorescent probes for biological diagnosis.

Borophenes have excellent mechanical, electronic, optical, optoelectronic, thermoelectric and superconducting properties, due to their potential applications in electronics, energy storage, transport, catalysis, plasmonics, superconductivity, sensors, and others.

This perspective summarizes the recently encouraging progress of asymmetric fused ring electron acceptors and tries to show a picture of the relationship between the asymmetric molecular structure, energy loss and device performance.

Revolutionizing OLEDs: AIE-driven efficiency boost in non-doped blue OLEDs showcased in this review. Novel strategies, experimental insights, and promising future prospects unveiled, propelling OLED technology forward.

The work reports the progress of small-fluorescent molecules for bioimaging applications to cancer-relevant biomarkers H⁺, NO, H₂S and reactive oxygen species (H₂O₂, HClO, O₂˙⁻, ¹O₂ and ˙OH) over the past six years.

In this review, the organic luminescence properties of low-dimensional organic–inorganic hybrid metal halides (LDMHs) are summarized, with emphasis on the mechanism, regulating strategy and applications of organic luminescence in LDMHs.

This review summarizes the current research status on fabrication methods, device structure selection, design and optimization of Ag₂S thin films. Insights into achieving high-efficiency Ag₂S devices by improving the crystallinity of the absorber layer and reducing interface defects are discussed.

The geometry, physical properties, and potential applications of group-III metal chalcogenides and their derived Janus structures are reviewed, and future exploration options are summarized and prospected.

Halogen-involved intermolecular interactions affect the stacking of photo-responsive chromophores and the photochemical reactions in crystals. This review highlights the halogen effect in photomechanical crystals.

Rubicene, a key nanofragment of C₇₀, is attracting great attention owing to its unique molecular structure and physicochemical properties.

The advancement on the emerging twisted 2D materials with emphasis on controllable preparation, promising to bring some new insights to the field of 2D materials and laying a foundation for exploring more novel physical properties in the future.

This review summarizes recent advances in small-molecule fluorescent photoswitches based on classic photochromic molecules in diverse states, and provides some existing problems and challenges to promote follow-up development in this field.

We introduced the background of mechanoluminescence (ML) materials development and mainstream ML principles. The applications of ML materials in the sensing neighborhood were introduced.

A comprehensive overview of stretchable PEDOT membranes for smart electronics, including stretchable structures, preparation strategies and recent applications.

Synthesis and improvement strategies of blue ZnSe(Te)-based QDs are reviewed and discussed. Recent advances regarding blue ZnSe(Te)-based light-emitting applications are systematically outlined, and existing challenges and prospects are provided.

In this study, we briefly review the different EMW absorption mechanisms and key influencing factors, then present the latest developments in low-dimensional (LD) EMW absorption materials.

We summarized the mechanism of substituent influence on single-molecule conductivity into three aspects: the quantum interference effect, the electronic effect of substituents and the conformational restriction of the conductive backbone.

The hybrid routes of MoS₂ and plasmonic nanostructures were comprehensively classified, and the nano-hybrids demonstrated diverse improved electro-/photo-based characteristics, as well as emerging sensing, catalysis and biomedical applications.

A brief history of SnO₂-based PSCs development in recent years and the advantages of SnO₂ as ETL.

Indeed, the development of solution-processable host materials for TADF OLEDs is less explored. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the progress made in the exploration of host materials for solution-processable TADF OLEDs.

This paper systematically reviews the preparation technologies, research progress, and typical applications of perovskite material-based memristors.

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have several advantages over conventional inorganic solar cells, including lower cost and greater flexibility.

Antibacterial hydrogels, as novel antibacterial materials with inherent or exogenous antibacterial activity, can be used for local use, controlled drug release, stimulus-responsive activation, synergistic antibacterial therapy, realizing its translational applications in different medical fields.

Liquid metals (LM) have attracted tremendous attention in the last decade, especially in the fabrication of LM-based polymer composites (LMPCs), due to the unique combination of their metallic and fluidic properties.

This review summarizes recent developments of diarylethene-based photochromic fluorescence switches constructed by non-covalent interactions, and the structural design principles of diarylethenes and fluorophores are discussed.

This review summarizes a decade of research on oxidative debris (ODs) in graphene oxide (GO) and discusses the protocols for isolating ODs, their structural characteristics, and their influence on several GO properties.

Shape memory photonic materials are intelligent optical materials that have shape memory abilities and show great potential in various applications, including actuators, visual sensors, anti-counterfeiting labels, and smart display units.

In the last few years, organic solar cells have emerged with potential applications in abundant low-power indoor Internet of Things devices, such as smart watches, calculators, remote controls, and other devices.

Organic photodetectors (OPDs) are increasingly important in photoelectric detection; here is an overview of OPDs about the performance metrics, the development possibilities of materials and tandem structures, and the challenges in applications.

In this review, we highlight the recent application of tabletop transient XUV spectroscopy to materials science, focusing on understanding the coupled electronic, structural, and spin dynamics.

This review provides an overview of the growth of perovskite single crystals and their recent development in X-ray detectors.

In the natural evolutionary process, biological creatures have developed diverse visual structures apt for their habitational environments. These structures have contributed to the advances of various imaging devices.

Oxidative chemical vapor deposition (oCVD) has developed progressively in the last two decades as a solvent-free (or dry) methodology for synthesis and thin film deposition of conjugated polymers.

Many academics are exploring using quantum dots (QDs) to make better LED devices due to their narrow emission band, low reaction temperature, low self-absorption effect, and high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs).

In this graphic, the molecular design strategy for achieving high efficiency and maintaining a narrowband emission profile of boron-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters is comprehensively summarized.

Conductive hydrogels are promising candidates for the fabrication of bioelectronics.

This review mainly focuses on patterning strategies and modification methods for better electrical and mechanical properties of PEDOT-based thin-film electrodes as well as their applications in stretchable organic optoelectronics.

This review article focuses on the latest research progress in the construction of multicolor EC devices based on the intrinsic chemical and structural colors of inorganic materials.

This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent progress in GaN-based gas sensors with a focus on their dynamic-related responses, mechanisms and applications, which are important for sensing performance, efficiency, and signal processing.

This review summarizes major developments in various solution-based synthesis approaches and different applications such as supercapacitors, batteries, HER, and photocatalytic dye degradation of group VI layered metal dichalcogenide thin films.

Hydrogel-integrated optical fiber sensors have garnered momentous interest due to their optical properties, biocompatibility, and biodegradability.

This review summarizes the recent advances of regioregular polymer acceptors based on SMAs for all-PSCs in the past three years, and the guidelines for future design of polymer acceptors are discussed.

An overview of structural, chemical, and iontronic properties of nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA) with proof-of-principle demonstrations of state-of-the-art iontronic applications such as ionic diodes, sensors, and osmotic energy generators.

The combination of different color-emitting laser dyes, together with compatible materials with targeted optical properties, can lead to the construction of different white lasers.

The present review focuses on the design, synthesis, functionalization, and application of BODIPY dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells and photodynamic therapy.

Persistent phosphors are highly explored materials due to their diverse applications (including anti-counterfeiting, information and data storage, photocatalysis, sensing, and bioimaging).

By imitating the skin structure, the skin-like hydrogel is designed, which has high fit degree and biocompatibility for human application. It can be used to detect a variety of human signals which has important significance in the field of sensing.

This review article presents how similar material features found in topological insulators and thermoelectrics can be leveraged to efficiently decouple electronic and phonon transports in order to improve thermoelectric figure of merit zT.

Stimuli-responsive chromic materials have received increasing research attention. This review summarizes the most cutting-edge carbon-centered radicals, with a focus on their structures, properties and applications as stimuli-chromic materials.

Tremendous efforts have been devoted to wearable mechanical sensors to meet growing needs in healthcare sensors and electronic skins.

Traditionally, hot excitons or hot carriers generated in semiconductors were considered unfavourable for many applications, given that they may cause energy loss and device degradation.

This review highlights the most relevant works on phthalocyanines, porphyrins and other porphyrinoids as components of perovskite solar cells from the last four years acting as hole transporting materials, additives, and interlayers.

Preserve the shape of silver nanocrystals by decorating a shell or frame composed of a more corrosive resistant metal on their surfaces for applications in plasmonics, catalysis, and electronics.

This review provides recent advances of preparation and pulsed fiber laser applications of emerging nanostructured materials. The preparation methods and applications of these materials as the saturable absorbers in pulsed fiber lasers are provided.

This review summarizes recent advances in photoresponsive fluorescent materials based on intermolecular [2+2] photocycloaddition reactions of four groups of molecular skeletons, and provides an outlook and suggestions for future research directions.

Fibrous morphologies are ideal carriers for achiral fluorescent molecules to achieve CPL. Examples and underlying mechanisms of chirality transfer, amplification, and reversion at the single- and multiple-fiber levels are presented in this review.

Artificial synapses inspired by the information processing mechanism of the human neural system serve as a platform to develop low-voltage operated high performance bioelectronics and advanced health monitoring systems.

This review systematically introduces and discusses the recent advances and progress in wearable electrochromic devices with optical modulation from the visible to infrared range.

In recent years, boron-containing macrocycles have received considerable research interest.

This review discusses about the instability factors and stabilizing strategies of metal halide perovskite (MHP)-based LEDs.

Cellulose is the most abundant biomass on earth and is widely used in LSBs cathodes, functional interlayers, battery separators and adhesives.

In this review, the structure and properties, modification methods, and research progress in the field of photocatalytic hydrogen evolution of MIL-125 are systematically summarized, and the future development of MIL-125 is predicted.

Bismuthene exhibited potential application in electrochemical, optoelectronics, batteries, sensing, supercapacitors, photocatalytic and biomedical fields.

Implantable neural electrodes are important tools for interfacing with the neural system for recording and stimulation.

Flexible/wearable gas sensor technology is gaining huge interest in the current era of the Internet of Things for its applications in personal environmental monitoring, healthcare, and safety.

Herein, we provide an overview of the history of research on industrial LED phosphors, focusing on Sr₂Si₅N₈:Eu, which was the first reported nitride phosphor but it is not ideal for industrial LED lighting and displays.

MR-TADF emitters with narrow emission have been developed and are expected to become fourth-generation emitters for HD-OLEDs, with molecular design guidelines and commercial prospects outlined in this review.