Themed collection 2019 Materials Chemistry Frontiers Review-type Articles

Due to various compositions and morphologies, exquisite intrinsic architectures, and renewability, biomass has been used to generate carbon electrodes for supercapacitors.

The great accomplishments were achieved under high pressure, including piezochromic luminescence, capturing high pressure phase, and pressure-triggered aggregation-induced emission enhancement.

Hydrogen bonding driven assembly of amphiphiles (small molecules and polymers) produce diverse nanostructures in aqueous medium.

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.

Chemically synthesized copper nanoclusters show colour-tunable emission and can be applied in catalysis, sensing, bioimaging, theranostics, and optoelectronics.

The assemblies derived from the various types of heteroatom-containing triangulenes are reviewed with respect to their supramolecular structures, characterization, properties and potential application.

Dynamic covalent bonds by stable radical species are ideal platforms for simple, facile, and clean rearrangements of chemical bonds without the need for catalysts and the formation of byproducts.

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

This review summarizes recent advances in dynamic pseudorotaxane crystals with response to external stimuli, such as light and/or heat.

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

This review paper describes the recent advances in solution self-assembly of amphiphilic rod-coil copolymers of various structures, which contain conjugated polymers, liquid crystalline polymers, polypeptides, or helical polymers as the rod blocks.

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

Supra-amphiphiles formed by noncovalent interactions are a versatile bottom-up fabrication strategy for functional soft materials.

Multimicelle aggregate (MMA) mechanism has been applied to explain the formation of large multimolecular micelles from various topological precursors and for applications in areas such as sensing, drug delivery, diagnostic and functional materials.

Recent progress of functional nanocarriers fabricated by pillar[n]arene-based supra-amphiphiles is reviewed.

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.

The relation between chemical structure and physical and electroluminescence properties for dendrimeric and polymeric emitters is examined; balanced charge transport is necessary for achieving the most efficient self-host devices with low efficiency roll-off.

Schematic representation of the synthesis of biomolecule-assisted metal nanoclusters for biological sensing applications.

Soft material gels are important biomaterials for tissue engineering and biomedicine. Fluorescent gels possess the additional property of being light emitting, with advanced applications in sensing, bioimaging, and electrofluorochromic devices.

Perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB)-based polymers exhibit attractive properties, including good thermal and chemical stability, high hydrophobicity and transparency, as well as good insulating properties.

Lithium-ion capacitors (LICs) can deliver high energy density, large power density and excellent stability since they possess a high-capacity battery-type electrode and a high rate capacitor-type electrode.

Intrinsically stretchable conductors and interconnects with excellent performance made from different types of materials find various applications in stretchable electronics.

Recently, Apple Inc. launched the highly anticipated cellphone, the iPhone X, which adopts an active-matrix organic light-emitting display (AMOLED) for the first time.

Pyrene shows very weak or quenched fluorescence in the solid state, but it is possible to turn it to a bright solid emitter by using aggregation-induced emission (AIE) strategies.

The comparison between chemical pigments and structural colors of male Morpho rhetenor wings.

This review summarizes the current research status on biodegradable metals as bone implants, including their biodegradability, mechanical properties, and biocompatibility.

All inorganic lead free halide perovskites have successfully emerged as revolutionary optoelectronic semiconductors for use in various applications.

This review summarizes the important achievements of self-assembled micelles based on amphiphilic block and random copolymers for controllable Pickering emulsions.

Recent advances of using cyclodextrin (CD) based supramolecular structures as sustained gene release systems are summarized.

Mis-regulation of certain proteins and enzymes is often identified as an indicator of many pathologies, and these disease-related proteins can be used as biomarkers to diagnose disease onset and progression.