Themed collection Journal of Materials Chemistry C Emerging Investigators

Journal of Materials Chemistry C profiles contributors to the Emerging Investigators issue.

We present an overview of the latest studies on organic neuromorphic and smart sensing devices and highlight the potential of these concepts to enhance the interaction efficiency between electronics and biological substances.

We present the recent progress in the synthesis, assembly, and electronic applications of solution-processed 2D semiconductors.

The pentafluorosulfanyl (SF₅) moiety has emerged as a versatile tool for tailoring optoelectronic properties in a wide range of functional materials.

This review describes figures of merit, challenges and strategies during the development of solution-processable electrochromic materials and devices for large-area smart window applications.

This review highlights the important role and recent progress of n-type conjugated polymers in several emerging research directions.

We summarized the experimental investigation of quantum interference in charge transport through various molecular architectures at single-molecule scale.

Here, we report a vacuum-filtration method to produce centimeter-scale continuous polycrystalline inorganic perovskite (CsPbBr₃) film directly on flexible porous substrates in one step, and demonstrate large-area flexible photodetector arrays.

Greater than the sum of its parts – a 3D ICT molecule displays greatly improved optoelectronic properties over a 2D analogue.

Polarons play a role in charge transfer, thermo-electric and redox mechanisms. A detailed description of their multi-configurational wavefunction, structure and properties is provided for a conjugated ladder polymer, at the broken-symmetry DFT level.

Room temperature two-photon pumped green-color whispering-gallery-mode lasing from cadmium sulfide microflakes with dimensions below 60 nm.

In a transistor with an n/p/electret tri-layer configuration, light assists reversible charge (hole and electron) injection and depletion of insulator electrets.

The photonic architectures of butterfly wings selectively increase surface-enhanced Raman scattering and we quantitate the enhancement of this photonic–plasmonic interaction.

The coupling between ferroelectric and magnetic order provides a powerful means to control magnetic properties with electric fields.

Novel dibenzo[hi,st]ovalene derivative (DBOV-TDOP) was synthesized to show an ordered helical hexagonal columnar assembly at room temperature.

The basic structural design principles of CuSCN–ligand complexes and the relationship between their structures and electronic properties are revealed in this study.

A D–A₃ structure is used to enhance the triplet harvesting rate of a purely organic molecule. However, excited state symmetry breaking dynamics plays an detrimental role causing localisation of the electronic structure and reducing this rate.

The dynamics of organic electrochemical transistors were studied using in situ infrared spectroscopy. The diffusivity of mixed ion-carrier pairs were quantified and fit with the VTF equation by considering the enthalpy of mixing of the process.

The interplay between dimensionality and anisotropicity leads to intriguing optoelectronic properties and exciton dynamics in low dimensional semiconductors.

A critical challenge in the field of phosphor converted white light emitting diodes (pc-WLEDs) pertains to understanding and controlling the variation of emission color with device temperature.

Orientationally aligned anisotropic large-spin polyoxometalate clusters exhibited unusual long-distance intermolecular ferromagnetic interactions below 35 K under a small magnetic field.