Themed collection Journal of Materials Chemistry C Emerging Investigators

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

The rise of n-type organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs): from materials to applications.

Newly emerging ullazine derivatives constitute a versatile and promising choice for high performing materials in organic electronics.

Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell components, materials, architectures and interfaces are comprehensively reviewed.

In this review, we focus on current progress of LHP-QD based LEDs, issue and challenge for high efficiency and high stability LEDs.

This review summarizes the progress in flexible pressure sensor arrays from their fundamental designs to device applications.

This review article summarizes the existing research work on combining triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) with photodetectors through four different configurations.

This review highlights recent developments in three applications of ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy to solution-processed semiconductor thin films: spectroelectrochemistry, microscopy, and identification of thermal contributions to transient absorption spectra.

This review summarizes recent advances in dielectric and plasmonic nanowire waveguides and their hybridization towards better device performance.

This paper provides a comprehensive review and understanding of the recent progress in the development of photo-, electrical-, and thermo-responsive composites.

The newly emerging AIEgens based on heterocycles of silicon, sulphur, oxygen, phosphorus, nitrogen, boron, etc., are introduced, and the structure and function correlations are elucidated in detail.

Heavy atom-free molecular materials with ultralong-lived room-temperature triplet excitons display nonlinear absorption using ordinary light and persistent room-temperature emission characteristics.

Efficient emissive fluorene-based p–n conjugated porous materials (CPMs) have been constructed via an effective Friedel–Crafts green polymerization.

A new family of furan-containing materials exhibit high ambient stability while retaining strong fluorescence and quinoid character.

X-ray detectors are demonstrated using composite films of lead-free Cs₂AgBiBr₆ halide double perovskite embedded in a polymer matrix as the X-ray photoconductors.

Controlling ring motions in a polyrotaxane-based 3D-printed monolith by pH variation results in a rapid and reversible macroscale shape morphing.

Herein, we present a general method to prepare self-standing flexible photoluminescent coatings of controlled opacity for integration into light-emitting diodes (LEDs) employing cost-effective solution-processing methods.

Anharmonicity is observed in vacancy-ordered double perovskites when the A-site cation is not optimally coordinated by the octahedral framework.

Tailoring the formation of dynamic and static excimers in a C₃-symmetric architecture led to efficient generation of white light and sensitive detection of Fe³⁺ and Al³⁺ in a single molecular platform.

SiC has immense potential as the semiconductor for future high power metal–oxide–semiconductor devices. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to systematically study the 4H-SiC/SiO₂ interface after high temperature nitridation treatments in a variety of atmospheres.

Tuning interfaces is crucial to improve charge separation in inorganic bulk heterojunctions.

Perovskites (ABX₃) display a wide range of chemical and structural heterogeniety, which has led to them being one of the most used and studied crystal structures.

A side-chain engineering study has been performed with isoindigo-based conjugated polymers to modulate their physical and electronic properties through the incorporation of urea-containing and saturated linear side chains.

We provide in-depth insight into the role of 1,8-diiodooctane (DIO) as a solvent additive in wide bandgap CH₃NH₃PbBr₃ (MAPbBr₃) films which results in altering the kinetics of crystal growth.

Using electrochemical measurement methods, potentiometric properties of porphyrin-based supramolecular polymers have been investigated. Structure-function relationships of these self-assembled materials have been elucidated.

The LSPR of Au nanospheres shows almost no shift in the extinction spectrum with attachment of a silica domain but considerable shift with a uniform layer of silica, indicating LSPR can be used to differentiate the segregated/uniform dielectric distribution.

This report describes a new strategy, microparticle screen printing (μSP), generally applicable to the fabrication of homo/heterogeneous arrays of functional particles with potential applications in photonics, optoelectronics, and optical sorting/barcoding.

This work highlights the role of PEDOT:PSS composition in determining the efficiency of coupling between ionic and electronic charges.

Interfaces showed great influence on polymer alignment, charge transport and meta-stable molecular packing for solution sheared devices.

We produced the first reported examples of OTFTs using PBDB-T, a conjugated push–pull polymer used in high performance OPVs, and assessed their performance compared to P3HT under different environmental conditions.

Rock-salt SnSe is a new promising thermoelectric material.

High electron transport can be obtained at the interface of organic semiconductors and hydroxyl-containing dielectrics.

Presented are design principles for the combinatory usage of HB, XB, and π–π interactions to enhance solid-state properties essential for optoelectronic device application.