Themed collection Celebrating materials science in Italy
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Recent progress in organic-based radiative cooling materials: fabrication methods and thermal management properties
A comprehensive review about the state-of-the-art polymer-based radiative coolers, and our insights are outlined to advance their commercial progress.
Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 804-822
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA01000C
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Recent advances in strongly resonant and gradient all-dielectric metasurfaces
We provide a critical overview of recent advances in all-dielectric, strongly resonant and gradient metasurfaces, as their performance is pushed to the extreme in view of emerging flat-optics applications.
Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 11-34
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00910B
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AZABODIPY aggregates as a promising electroluminescent material for sustainable NIR OLED applications
AZABODIPY with thiophene and phenyl substituents allows electroluminescence in pure NIR to be achieved.
Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 1702-1710
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MA00006K
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Plurality of excitons in Ruddlesden–Popper metal halides and the role of the B-site metal cation
We investigate the effect of metal cation substition on the excitonic structure and dynamics in a prototypical Ruddlesden–Popper metal halide.
Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 1720-1730
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00136E
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Principles of isomer stability in small clusters
We unveil the principles of isomer stability in small clusters. Our conclusions are based on a extensive statistical analysis of various structural and electronic descriptors on a huge database of isomers generated by ab-initio structure predictions.
Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 1746-1768
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA01088G
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Transparent and flexible high-surface area nanoporous crystalline PPO films
Guest and processing conditions leading to high surface area (SA) nanoporous-crystalline (NC) poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene)oxide (PPO) films are explored.
Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 881-889
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00975G
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Enabling water-free PEDOT as hole selective layer in lead-free tin perovskite solar cells
A thin layer of Al2O3 nanoparticles has been deposited on top of a water-free PEDOT layer to modify wettability for obtaining pinhole-free homogenous tin-based perovskite films, resulting in better device performance.
Mater. Adv., 2022,3, 9083-9089
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00834C
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Water oxidation at low potential exploiting a nitroxide/oxoammonium ion redox couple as mediator
Chemical or electrochemical oxidation of a nitroxide radical leads to formation of an oxoammonium cation (OAC). OAC is able, in basic aqueous solution, of water oxidation with the formation of oxygen, while OAC reduces back to the initial radical.
Mater. Adv., 2022,3, 8149-8156
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00668E
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A MnOx–graphitic carbon composite from CO2 for sustainable Li-ion battery anodes
Molten salt CO2 capture and electrochemical transformation (MSCC-ET) has been proposed as a sustainable synthetic method for Mn nanocrystalline inclusions in a graphitic matrix, which paves the way to new methods to produce composite materials.
Mater. Adv., 2022,3, 7087-7097
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00583B
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Compositional engineering of multicomponent garnet scintillators: towards an ultra-accelerated scintillation response
A Czochralski-grown single crystal of GAGG:Ce,Mg allows for a high Ce dopant and Mg codopant concentration in the crystal, resulting in acceleration of scintillation decay down to several nanoseconds at the expense of light yield.
Mater. Adv., 2022,3, 6842-6852
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00626J
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Dy-Doped BiFeO3 thin films: piezoelectric and bandgap tuning
A tri-metallic precursor mixture has been used to deposit Bi(1−x)DyxFeO3 film on conductive SrTiO3:Nb(100) substrates. A fine adjustment of the film composition is the key enabling an accurate tuning of the film piezoelectric and optical properties.
Mater. Adv., 2022,3, 3446-3456
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1MA01088C
About this collection
To showcase some of the great research in Italy, this collection collates some of the most popular advances in materials science published in Materials Advances in the last couple of years. Papers have been selected based on the number of citations, article downloads, and Altmetric scores.