Themed collection Celebrating materials science in Italy

A comprehensive review about the state-of-the-art polymer-based radiative coolers, and our insights are outlined to advance their commercial progress.

We provide a critical overview of recent advances in all-dielectric, strongly resonant and gradient metasurfaces, as their performance is pushed to the extreme in view of emerging flat-optics applications.

AZABODIPY with thiophene and phenyl substituents allows electroluminescence in pure NIR to be achieved.

We investigate the effect of metal cation substition on the excitonic structure and dynamics in a prototypical Ruddlesden–Popper metal halide.

We unveil the principles of isomer stability in small clusters. Our conclusions are based on a extensive statistical analysis of various structural and electronic descriptors on a huge database of isomers generated by ab-initio structure predictions.

Guest and processing conditions leading to high surface area (SA) nanoporous-crystalline (NC) poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene)oxide (PPO) films are explored.

A thin layer of Al₂O₃ nanoparticles has been deposited on top of a water-free PEDOT layer to modify wettability for obtaining pinhole-free homogenous tin-based perovskite films, resulting in better device performance.

Chemical or electrochemical oxidation of a nitroxide radical leads to formation of an oxoammonium cation (OAC). OAC is able, in basic aqueous solution, of water oxidation with the formation of oxygen, while OAC reduces back to the initial radical.

Molten salt CO₂ capture and electrochemical transformation (MSCC-ET) has been proposed as a sustainable synthetic method for Mn nanocrystalline inclusions in a graphitic matrix, which paves the way to new methods to produce composite materials.

A Czochralski-grown single crystal of GAGG:Ce,Mg allows for a high Ce dopant and Mg codopant concentration in the crystal, resulting in acceleration of scintillation decay down to several nanoseconds at the expense of light yield.

A tri-metallic precursor mixture has been used to deposit Bi(1−x)Dy_xFeO₃ film on conductive SrTiO₃:Nb(100) substrates. A fine adjustment of the film composition is the key enabling an accurate tuning of the film piezoelectric and optical properties.