Themed collection Celebrating 10 years of Emerging Investigators in Journal of Materials Chemistry C

We summarize the molecular design of photoresponsive liquid-crystalline polymers, manipulation at multiple scales and various applications based on their intrinsic properties, providing an opportunity for future development in this field.

“Supramolecular chirality induction” from cholate assembly, along with non-covalent sensitization of various lanthanide emission, provides an efficient induction of tunable CPL in lanthanide-based soft materials.

Water-soluble sacrificial layers using solution processed, amorphous SrCa₂Al₂O₆ sacrificial layer has been used for creating free-standing single-crystalline perovskite oxide membranes.

Hypervalent iodine based macrocycles with enlarged aromatic cores can form extended supramolecular assemblies with Buckminsterfullerene.

We show that the n-type conducting polymer PBFDO can be optically metallic for wavelengths above around 695 nm after post-treatment, and that nanostructures of the material can act as optical nanoantennas that are dynamically switchable.

High-mobility n-type organic transistors that maintain performance for over 1000 minutes under bias stress pave the way for complementary organic circuits, overcoming a key obstacle in the field.

A new series of ladder-type materials with donor–π–donor (D–π–D) architectures and diphenylamine (DPA) end-cappers, namely LBDT, LIDT and LIDTT, were developed as robust gain media for organic lasing.

InSe/β-Ga₂O₃ heterojunction detects 230 nm deep UV under zero bias.

Solution-processed TADF polymer sensitized MR-TADF OLEDs demonstrate EQE of 15.7% with a narrow FWHM of 48 nm.

Atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of ordered and disordered P3HT at varying temperatures reveal distinct thermomechanical behavior in the amorphous and crystalline material domains.

Porous metallopolymer membranes are prepared via the self-assembly and non-solvent-induced phase separation (SNIPS) process. These membranes efficiently remove (transition)metal ions and perfluorinated organic substances from the water phase.

A facile membraneless method for detecting alkali-metal cations was developed by adding ionophores (crown ethers: 18C6 or 15C5) to a polymer matrix (p(g2T-TT)) as the active layer in organic electrochemical transistors.

Local bonding environments can be characterized via ensemble averages of PDFs to provide insight into the relationship between synthetic temperature and structure.

Mass spectrometry shows that the surface chemistry in ALD of AlN is dominated by reductive elimination and ligand exchange.

The recent development of π-conjugated nanohoops in organic electronics has opened new perspectives for this family of curved materials.

We present an intramolecular charge transfer state in fluoranthene derivatives, established using detailed spectroscopic techniques. The present work paves an avenue toward the design of fluoranthene-based chromophores for applications in optoelectronics.