Themed collection Celebrating Materials Science in India

Greener methods for the extraction and isolation of tannin, and it's state of art in adhesive technology.

This review is focused on the origin of dye pollutants, their ecotoxicological effects and adsorptive removal using various types of adsorbents.

Hybrid nanocomposite materials are widely being investigated due to their superior thermoelectric and mechanical properties. Due to their eco-friendly behaviour, and low cost processing, these can be utilized in flexible thermoelectric devices.

This review highlights the current progress in the chemistry of MOFs and their dye adsorption mechanisms.

Carbon nitride with tunable textural properties, chemical properties (N contents, types of N species, and dopants), and optoelectronic properties can activate and convert CO₂ to useful chemicals and fuels by using various forms of energy resources.

This review presents the recent progress on NIR fluorescent protein and bioluminescence-based probes with high-resolution in vivo imaging techniques.

The present review article focuses on novel findings corresponding to the structural and photophysical properties of carbon dots. The article also highlights unique characteristics of crystalline dots that offer new chemistry and thus new application potential.

The advancement of unique, organic materials possessing exclusive solid-state photoluminescence properties is in high demand due to their noteworthy contribution to materials chemistry and technology.

Intermolecular H-bonding between organic cations results in the highly rigid geometry of 2D layered halide perovskites leading to reduced octahedral distortion and inorganic layer separation. This improves the optoelectronic property of the materials.

In the present study, biogenic synthesis of a CuO/rGO nanocomposite was carried out successfully using Terminalia arjuna bark extract.

Conversion of plastic waste into graphene nanosheets and its application in supercapacitor.

Superior retention of 70% PCE in inorganic CuSCN HTM PSCs for 1500 h over organic and HTM-free counterparts.

We have demonstrated that the SPASER configuration can provide giant chiroptical enhancements in plasmonic nano assemblies within the lasing threshold which can be harnessed for highly efficient chiral sensing or imaging of complex biological environments.

The blue fluorescent lead-free perovskite nanostructures were synthesized at room temperature in the presence of water. These perovskites demonstrated their morphology as square nanoplates, nanorods, and rectangular nanoplates for Cs₂CuCl₄, Cs₂CuBr₄, and Cs₂CuBr₂Cl₂, respectively.

Porous spherical carbon nanostructures derived from biomass waste showed promising energy storage potential.

A Ni-based ternary nanocomposite, Ni–rGO–zeolite, has been developed as an efficient and recyclable heterogeneous catalyst for on-water regioselective azide alkyne cycloaddition.

Sustainable remediation of Cr(VI) removal from contaminated water and real wastewater samples is reported using a polypyrrole–polyaniline copolymer coated green rice husk ash adsorbent.

A nanohybrid containing 2 mol% La³⁺ doped MnO₂ and carbon nanotubes produced hydrothermally exhibits a specific capacitance of ∼1530 F g⁻¹ at 1 A g⁻¹ and a 92% capacity retention after 5000 cycles showing its potential as electrode for supercapacitors.

The BiOX/g-C₃N₄ composites showed enhanced photocatalytic performance towards organic pollutant degradation owing to the boosted charge transfer over the binary interfaces.

Herein, the effect of Cu²⁺ substitution on the structural, morphological, cation distribution, magnetic, and Mössbauer properties of mixed Ni–Zn spinel ferrites was studied.

Solution-processable multilayer OLEDs were fabricated by employing the blue luminophores as dopants in the 4,4′-bis(9H-carbazol-9-yl)biphenyl (CBP) host and were found to exhibit bright deep blue electroluminescence with high efficiency.

In this work, the electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding properties of an MXene interlayered crosslinked conducting poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) polymer film are investigated.