Themed collection Journal of Materials Chemistry C Recent Review Articles

The field of neuromorphic computing has seen significant advancements through the development of artificial synapses, with two-dimensional (2D) and quasi-2D halide perovskites emerging as key materials in this area.

This overview presents AIEgens integrated with phthalocyanines and subphthalocyanines, summarizing how the conversion of aggregation-caused quenching to aggregation-induced emission-active systems enhances their emission-related applications.

The interface between inorganic charge injection/transport layers and organic functional layers as the most strategic area for tuning the performance and stability of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).

This perspective explores the intersection between materials research and environmental assessment during the early-stage development of next-generation wearables, encompassing flexible, stretchable, soft, transient, and printed electronics.

We review the responses of Prussian blue analogues to light, pressure, magnetic/electric fields, temperature, and guest absorption.

Cyclic triimidazole, TT, is an emerging scaffold to prepare multiemissive organic and coordination systems to be exploited in various fields. TTs with dual emission, RTP from aqueous aggregates, mechanochromism and vapochromism are discussed here.

This review discusses recent advancements in chiral-based spin-electronic devices achieved using suitable combinations of organic, inorganic and hybrid materials.

This review tries to give insight into rational molecular design strategies for the construction of next-generation AIE-active TADF and MR-TADF emitters for high-performance OLED applications.

Antimony selenosulfide [Sb₂(S,Se)₃] is a scientifically interesting, and technologically promising photovoltaic (PV) material for the next generation of solar cells.

Metal bis(dithiolene) complexes are emerging as promising candidates for functional organic materials. This review focuses on their synthesis and applications in organic thermoelectric devices and organic thin-film transistors.

This review examines the promise and challenges of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in high-radiation environments, focusing on their sensing and shielding applications.

This review highlights emerging mechanisms that efficiently harness triplet exciton states to significantly enhance electrochemiluminescence (ECL) performance.

Monitoring wound biomarkers is critical for chronic wound management. This review highlights the advanced hydrogel dressings for in situ visual monitoring of a series of key wound biomarkers like pH, glucose, ROS and bacterial products.

Flexible perovskite solar cells (F-PSCs) have an efficiency exceeding 25%, featuring both light weight and the advantage of roll-to-roll production. However, their mechanical stability is insufficient, which hinders their commercial application.

Pyroelectric materials have enormous potential in energy conversion. This article reviews the latest theoretical and experimental advances in carbon assisted pyroelectric composites for sensing, energy harvesting, and pyroelectric catalysis.

This review outlines mechanisms, fabrication techniques, and healthcare applications of flexible and wearable ultrasound electronics, and discusses challenges and future directions for advancing accessible intelligent healthcare.

Silicon carbide (SiC), a third-generation wide bandgap semiconductor material, demonstrates immense potential in high-temperature, high-frequency, and high-power electronic devices.

Carbazole-based single-component RTP emitters have emerged as promising candidates for applications in theranostics, encryption and anti-counterfeiting, OLEDs, and smart materials due to their particular optoelectronic properties.

The influence of laser energy density on the microstructural evolution and mechanical and magnetic properties of NdFeB. Postprocessing and grain boundary diffusion enhance the magnetic properties and relative density.

A unified view of grain-boundary physics, transport mechanisms, and engineering strategies that dictate carrier transport and performance in polycrystalline semiconductors.

MeV-ion-engineered diamond NV centers form a robust quantum platform. Unified advances in charge control, ML-accelerated dynamics, and hybrid quantum integration enable terahertz phonon sensing and fault-tolerant quantum devices.

The precise detection of ultra-low relative humidity (<10% RH) is essential in semiconductor manufacturing, lithium-ion battery production, and aerospace systems, where even trace amounts of moisture can lead to irreversible performance degradation.

This review systematically analyzes the deposition, chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), and post-CMP cleaning (PCMPC) processes for cobalt interconnect structures in advanced technology nodes of integrated circuits.

Recent advancements in solution-based exfoliation of non-van der Waals 3D materials are discussed, focusing on bonding anisotropy, cleavage planes, solvent selection, dispersion and chemical stability, and their applications in various fields.

This review provides an in-depth overview of recent developments in the design and application of conductive hydrogels for epidermal electrophysiological electrodes.

In this study, palladium nanocrystals (Pd-NCs) have been deposited on the surface of SrBi₄Ti₄O₁₅ (SBTO), resulting in the successful construction of an efficient hydrogen evolution catalyst based on the synergistic effect of piezo-photocatalysis.

This review summarizes the progress of electroabsorption spectroscopy in characterizing built-in potentials and interface states in semiconductor devices, and outlines future research directions and technical challenges in the field.

Bifacial–tandem synergy leveraging albedo harvesting and eco-encapsulation breaks 28%-efficiency ceiling (stabilized at >1200 h) for facile BIPV/wearable commercialization.

A tailored Bridgman growth strategy enables large, high-quality anthracene single crystals with ultrafast decay and ultralow detection limits, achieving high-sensitivity X-ray detection for low-dose applications.

Spiral groups have unique three-dimensional structures, strong rigidity, non-conjugation, and high dipole orientation potential, demonstrating broad application possibilities in creating various high-performance organic electroluminescent materials.

This review discusses different strategies including compositional, additive, and interfacial engineering to suppress the oxidation, reduce defects, and enhance the operational stability of Sn–Pb mixed low-bandgap perovskite solar cells.

This review highlights the rapid progress in 3D and 4D printing of electrically conductive polymers and critically outlines key challenges, such as printability and scalability, that must be overcome for broad industrial and biomedical applications.

Cephalopods (e.g., octopus, squid, and cuttlefish) are a class of soft-bodied marine invertebrates renowned for their ability to dynamically alter their color and appearance for camouflage in complex environments.

Antenna-based sensors are emerging as a transformative class of multifunctional devices that unify wireless communication and environmental sensing within a single, compact architecture.

This review aims to compare the construction, properties, regulation strategies, and mechanism exploration of organic CPL materials in different aggregation states, including crystals, supramolecular assemblies, polymers, and liquid crystals.

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) push the limits of conventional computing architectures, the need for high-speed, energy-efficient, and scalable memory technologies has become paramount.

This review shows how molecular aggregation enables emergent photophysics (RTP, radical emission, NIR luminescence, photothermal, X-ray scintillation) unseen in single molecules.

This review highlights recent advances in wireless technologies for stretchable bioelectronics, including wireless power transfer, wireless data communication, material selection, integration approaches, and applications in bioelectronic devices.

This review shows polymer-modified lanthanide-doped UCNPs enhance stability, biocompatibility and multifunctionality, enabling advances in bioimaging, phototherapy, drug delivery and biosensing, and outlines routes toward clinical translation.

This review highlights emerging chiral molecular carbon materials for circularly polarized luminescence, emphasizing chirality control, property tuning, integration challenges, and future opportunities in chiroptoelectronic technologies.

This review highlights the importance of developing color-tunable TADF, CPL TADF and MR-TADF emitters and their molecular strategies to achieve exceptional photophysical characteristics, which are crucial for advancing OLED technology.

This review summarizes recent advances in solution-processable small-molecule TADF emitters, categorized by molecular skeletons, with the most efficient representative of each class highlighted.

Two-dimensional (2D) and layered materials are emerging as powerful biological interfaces, offering high translational capacity for next-generation bioelectronics and therapeutic devices.

This review summarizes the recent advances in stimuli-responsive covalent organic frameworks (COFs), including the mechanisms and structure–function relationship and their diverse applications.

This review provides an overview of the developments in high-mobility polymers, integrating the core themes of molecular design, synthetic methods, and functional integration.

This review highlights the multifaceted roles of polymers in perovskite solar cells, with future efforts focused on multifunctional designs and scalable processing for practical applications.

This review discusses the studies from pioneering groups that advanced the use of impedance spectroscopy (IS) and equivalent circuit techniques to investigate operational mechanisms in organic electronics.

Stimuli-responsive smart microrobots perform “on-demand” and highly efficient decontamination of polluted sites.

Lead-free halide double perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) are promising alternatives to lead-based perovskites, offering eco-friendly composition, robust intrinsic thermodynamic stability, and tunable optoelectronic properties.

Application and challenges of E- and D-mode organic electrochemical transistors for neuromorphic computing, linking ion–electron coupling to synaptic plasticity and complementary circuits.

Harnessing hyperbolic anisotropy: state-of-the-art hyperbolic metamaterial sensors across diverse applications.

This review highlights recent advances in organic up-conversion devices, emphasizing mechanisms, architectures, and applications toward high-performance infrared-to-visible imaging systems.

Two-photon lithography (2PL) enables high-resolution 3D nanoprinting of complex, functional microdevices. This review examines 2PL fundamentals, resolution and throughput improvements, and emerging applications in various fields.

Recent progress on biological skin inspired temperature/pressure bimodal tactile sensors is introduced and discussed, which will guide the development of high-performance multifunctional electronic skin in the future.

Tungsten diselenide (WSe₂) is extensively investigated as a channel optoelectrode material with remarkable optical, electrical, and magnetic properties and mechanical flexibility.

Hydrogen-bonded organic framework (HOF) materials represent a novel category of porous materials that have attracted considerable attention owing to their mild synthesis conditions, self-healing capabilities, and recyclability.

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) has gained significant interest in applications ranging from quantum computing and optical communications to data encryption and bioimaging.

Several characteristics of all-inorganic germanium-based perovskites that exhibit potential in theory.

This review highlights recent advancements in electrocaloric cooling technology and systematically summarizes existing regulation strategies for optimizing electrocaloric performance.

g-C₃N₄ exhibits versatile applications from photocatalysis to biomedicine. This schematic illustrates synthesis, modification strategies, characterization, and biomedical implementations in theranostics, biosafety, and cancer therapy.