Themed collection Journal of Materials Chemistry C Recent Review Articles

We review the responses of Prussian blue analogues to light, pressure, magnetic/electric fields, temperature, and guest absorption.

Cyclic triimidazole, TT, is an emerging scaffold to prepare multiemissive organic and coordination systems to be exploited in various fields. TTs with dual emission, RTP from aqueous aggregates, mechanochromism and vapochromism are discussed here.

This review discusses recent advancements in chiral-based spin-electronic devices achieved using suitable combinations of organic, inorganic and hybrid materials.

Ionic-doped inorganic photochromic (PC) materials have garnered increasing research interest due to their diverse PC properties.

This review explores different paths to replace traditional HTMs, it discusses recent advancements in conjugated organic-HTMs, organic-SAMs and polymeric-HTMs, aiming to improve the efficiency and stability of lead and tin-based PSCs.

This Feature Article reviews characterization technology, charge transport mechanisms, and applications of single-molecule optoelectronics, while addressing current challenges and future prospects.

Breakthroughs in flexible electronic devices achieved through the development of high-conductive polymers, fabrication of flexible electrode materials, micro-nano-fabrication and integration of energy harvesting technology are discussed.

Microwave dielectric ceramics with dielectric constant (ε_r ≈ 20) for 5G/6G communications, focusing on four material systems—MgTiO₃–CaTiO₃, (Ca,La)(Al,Ti)O₄, LnNbO₄, and Li₂TiO₃.

This study systematically investigates the fabrication processes of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin-film sensors. It covers PZT synthesis methods (e.g., sol–gel, sputtering, pulsed laser deposition) and thin-film deposition techniques.

This work describes the typical synthetic method, detailed mechanisms, sensor applications, current challenges and prospects of QD-based electrochemiluminescence (ECL), providing beginners a foundational overview.

Sulfur quantum dots (SQDs), a novel class of semiconductor nanomaterials, have garnered increasing attention due to their exceptional luminescent properties, robust biocompatibility, low toxicity antibacterial activity, and facile functionalization.

This review summarizes recent advances in material selection and structural engineering of flexible surface electromyography (sEMG) electrodes.

With the development of the Internet of Things and flexible electronic technology, perovskite materials have become the core driving force for the innovation of self-powered sensors due to their excellent optoelectronic properties.

This review discusses the material selection, device design approaches, and state-of-the-art applications of wearable and implantable transient bioelectronics.

2D heterostructure-based avalanche FET's enable efficient photo/gas/biomolecule sensing via enhanced carrier dynamics and tunable band alignments under forward/reverse bias.

Hydrogels with photomagnetic, photothermal, and pH-responsive properties can achieve precise drug delivery, sterilization, and wound healing, and change their structural properties in the unique pH environment of the lesion site.

The strategic incorporation of oxygen atoms into polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has emerged as an effective strategy for developing advanced organic materials with precisely tailored optoelectronic functionalities.

Recent advances in engineering PEDOT:PSS to optimize power factor and suppress thermal conductivity for high-performance thermoelectric devices are reviewed.

This review highlights how machine learning accelerates chalcogenide phase-change material research via high-throughput screening, large-scale simulations with machine learning potentials, and memory/neuromorphic device optimization.

The development of piezoelectric composite (PEC) gas sensors is progressing rapidly, driven by innovations that range from atomic-level material design to system-level integration.

Recent progress in stretchable organic room temperature phosphorescence systems is reviewed.

This review summarizes recent advances in AIP Pt(II) complexes, covering design strategies, photophysical mechanisms (RIM, RSDE, oxygen shielding), and applications in imaging, OLEDs, and sensing, while highlighting future development directions.

Metal halide perovskites have emerged as highly promising semiconductor materials owing to their versatility across a broad spectrum of optoelectronic applications. Through dimensional engineering one can tune their properties to facilitate their use in specific device applications.

This review highlights the recent advances in multi-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for OLEDs, focusing on molecular strategies to overcome challenges such as color tunability, exciton dynamics, and device stability.

This review summarizes the organic stimuli-responsive tunable CPL materials based on various types of stimuli in recent years, focusing on the design principles, performance modulation mechanisms and potential applications.

This review provides an overview of molecular weight optimization for intrinsically stretchable conjugated polymer films, focusing on solution-assemble behavior and the relationship between film microstructure and electrical/mechanical properties.

This review summarizes recent advances in magneto-optical (MO) thin films, their integration into nonreciprocal photonic devices, and discusses key challenges and future prospects.

The concise guide map outlined herein gives the breakthroughs in progression accompanying the construction of new hybrid polyMOF-based membranes and highlights their important applications in sensing, conduction, and separation.

Metal oxide-based resistive switching memristors are emerging as promising nanodevices for the hardware implementation of neuromorphic computing. We focus on the development of a neuromorphic computing system based on metal oxide memristors.

2D photothermal nanomaterials, including transition metal hydrides (TMHs), transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), MXene, graphene, and their derivatives, are being utilized in current photothermal applications.

This review summarizes the classification, properties, structure characteristics, and bottom-up/top-down synthesis of monoelemental main group Xenes for nonlinear optical performance and applications.

Semiconductor metasurfaces enable dual SERS enhancement by combining strong optical resonances with charge-transfer interactions, offering a powerful platform for highly sensitive molecular detection.

This perspective discusses metal halide perovskites (MHPs) as gate dielectrics for transistor-based devices. The authors discuss the electrolytic dielectric characteristics of MHPs, focusing on understanding the dielectric polarizability of MHPs.

This study highlights selective Pd²⁺ detection using metal complex- and MOF-based optical sensors, addressing key innovations, challenges, and future directions.

Integrated photonics in quantum technology.

The research progresses of increase the compatibility between PC-based electrolytes and graphite anodes, have been reviewed.

This review systematically summarizes the latest research progress in 2D GaN and 2D AlN structures, properties, fabrication methods and applications.

This review highlights recent advancements in single-molecule WOLEDs via dual-emission mechanisms (monomer/excimer, ESIPT, TICT, ESCC, TBCT/TSCT).

The review describes the wave-absorption principles, preparation strategies, structural design, component modulation and multifunctionality of 3D porous carbon-based materials as well as discusses their challenges and future research directions.

Fabrication methods and SERS applications of plasmonic dendrites.

Halide hybrid perovskite ferroelectrics can exist in bulk (single- or polycrystalline) and thin-film forms, exhibiting multifunctional properties suitable for applications in energy harvesting, sensing, and memory devices.

The integration of plasmonic nanoparticles into the channel or gate dielectric of organic field effect transistors enables enhanced functionality and performance in a range of optoelectronic applications.

This review provides a comprehensive overview of the molecular engineering techniques used to control polarity in two-dimensional materials and their applications in optoelectronic devices.

This work summarizes light-controlled CPL induction, enabling precise regulation via light wavelength and dopants. It highlights light-driven modulation of liquid crystal helices, mechanisms, and applications.

Chiral lanthanide complexes with circularly polarized luminescence.

Alternating current electroluminescent (ACEL) devices have become an important direction for the development of visualized smart wearable e-textiles due to their advantages of light weight, flexibility, easy integration, and convenient processing.

Various structural designs and fabrication of flexible polymer composite films with high thermal conductivity and electromagnetic interference shielding performance.

This paper summarizes the mechanism of self-sustained soft robots based on LCEs, which rely on negative feedback loops.

OFET-based sensors consisting of small molecules or polymers as an active layer have garnered significant attention in recent years owing to their high flexibility and sensitivity, low fabrication cost and excellent substrate conformity.

This review provides a concise overview on recent advanced strategies for the creation of the diversity of photonic glass materials with remarkable non-iridescent structural colors and unique short-range ordered nanostructures.

This review highlights recent advances in the preparation of 2D superconductors, emphasizing fabrication methods like mechanical exfoliation, MBE, PLD, and in particular the CVD method, and discusses the future research directions.

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) sensors are versatile techniques detecting minute chemical analytes in real-time. This work presents guidelines for selecting sensing materials for these sensors.

This review presents the performance requirements, preparation strategies, and implantation methods of interfaces at different implantation sites, and emphasizes the mitigation methods of FBRs in implantable devices to adapt for long-term use.

Research on photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide (CO₂) has extensively progressed.

Photoluminescent materials serve as light conversion auxiliaries in greenhouse films to enhance photosynthetic efficiency and crop productivity & quality by improving sunlight utilization.

This review discusses the molecular structures and scintillation properties of organic material based solid-state X-ray scintillators, assesses the development and practical application space, and raises related challenges and issues.

This article reviews the critical role of phase transition types in the electrocaloric effect and how compositional regulation can achieve an electrocaloric effect with a high peak value over a wide temperature span.

Airflow sensors are in huge demand in many fields such as the aerospace industry, weather forecasting, environmental monitoring, chemical and biological engineering, health monitoring, wearable smart devices, etc.

For DRAM node downscaling, planar oxide-channel transistors must transition to VCT. This review explores strategies to reduce contact resistance, including conductive region formation, n⁺ layer insertion, metal selection, and surface engineering.

This review focuses on the design strategies, structure–function relationships, and recent advancements of MOF-based X-ray scintillators utilized in high-sensitivity and high-resolution X-ray detectors, flexible imaging, and X-ray radiation therapy.

This review explores 2D nanomaterials as lubricant additives, focusing on surface modification, composite methods, and lubrication mechanisms. Key challenges and future research directions are discussed.

In this article, we summarize the progress of materials, mechanisms and ML-assisted gas sensing data processing for MOS gas sensor arrays, with a view to providing a breakthrough direction for future research.

High purity and density of s-SWCNT arrays achieved through different methods enable a performance close to the expected device outcomes in FETs.