Themed collection Materials Chemistry in Tianjin University

Wenping Hu, Zhen Li and Liqiang Li introduce the Materials Chemistry Frontiers themed collection on materials chemistry research at Tianjin University.

Organic cocrystals, as an intelligent design strategy of functional materials, have received extensive attention in the scientific community over recent years. This review focuses on recent advances and perspectives of organic charge transfer cocrystals in the area of stimuli-response.

This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in surface-grafting polymers, including their formation process and the utilization of surface-grafting polymers as functional materials of insulators, conductors and semiconductors in versatile organic electronic devices.

High performance photodetectors play important roles in the improvement of innovative technologies in many fields, for instance, medicine, military, optical communication, environment monitoring, etc.

This review summarizes the latest advances of porous organic polymers (POPs) focusing on their applications in photocatalysis, including photocatalytic chemical transformations, photodetoxification of pollutants from water, and water splitting.

The organic mechanoluminescence (ML) happens at the crack surface under force, and the ML composition is becoming more complicated, extending from the normal fluorescence to phosphorescence, persistent room temperature phosphorescence and the photo-sensitive ML.

This review provides a state-of-the-art account on the design and properties of advanced functional carbon dots and their emerging applications ranging from optical and energy to biomedical fields.

This review summarizes the recent developments of a large number of chemiluminescent lumiphores and broad ECL applications.

This review describes the recent progress of 3D porous carbon materials and their composites as electrodes for electrochemical energy storage systems.

The special structure of AIEgens facilitates the understanding and application of polymers.

Chemical methods have significant advantages in preparing high-performance oxide dispersion-strengthened alloys.

Four molecule design strategies of n-type conjugated polymers for organic thin-film transistors are summarized and discussed.

This review summarizes high-strength hydrogel-based bioinks, including general requirements for designing suitable high-strength hydrogel bioinks, and recent progress of 3D printed high-strength hydrogel scaffolds.