Themed collection Journal of Materials Chemistry C Recent Review Articles

Spacer manoeuvring by fluorination to achieve ambient stability in perovskites towards oxygen, moisture, and light.

The role of spin transition followed by unidirectional electron transfer at the redox-active centre induces spontaneous polarization in the crystal lattice, generating temporary voltage and current, i.e., the electronic pyroelectricity.

The trends in octahedral tilting in Prussian blue analogues are reviewed as a function of various structural factors. The link between tilting and functionality is discussed.

Strategies for enhancing interfacial adhesion of organic semiconductors by adhesive layer introduction, adhesive group functionalization, adhesive integrated agent, and physical mixing, have shown promising applications in various fields.

For development of multifunctional smart devices, this perspective focuses on vertical transistors with short channels aided by nanotechnology.

Spintronic applications of OSSCs are discussed from the aspects of molecular structure, stacking structure, OSSC-based spintronic device fabrication, and multifunctional applications.

A generalized picture on how surface charge imbalance mediated by doping can affect the gas sensing behavior of metal oxide chemiresistive systems.

In this perspective, we give an overview of the key historic achievements, the state-of-the-art, and future perspectives of flow chemistry applied to the synthesis of conjugated polymers for organic electronics.

We discuss the synthesis of infrared-emitting conjugated polymer nanoparticles and their use in biological imaging. The image shows the vasculature of a mouse brain imaged with conjugated polymer nanoparticles (M. Liu et al., Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 983–989).

The bipolar junction transistor, has become an essential component for many modern circuits that are used for high-speed computing and communication, which is due to its ability of being able to amplify high-power signals.

This review provides a detailed insight into the smart selection of spacer material and preparation technique in a plasmonic–fluorophore hybrid system to tailor the system for a desired application, mainly targeting active photoluminescence tuning.

The recent advances and future perspectives on circularly polarized luminescence materials based on optically active helical polymers are reviewed and discussed.

This paper reviews an overview of the history and research progress of poled polymers in terms of synthesis, poling method, and application, besides providing an outlook on it.

The origin, synthesis, application and challenge of FEC electrolyte additive as a vital role used in different electrodes for LIBs have been reviewed.

The progress in the synthesis and molecular engineering of semiconducting polymers based on diarylethylene units is presented. The physicochemical and optoelectronic properties of conjugated and finitely conjugated polymers are illustrated.

Graphene and its derivatives with unique chemical and physical features have motivated great efforts and achieved substantial advances in fuel cell applications for renewable energy production.

In this review, current progress, opportunities, and challenges for ML in OSCs have been identified. Given the rapid advances in this field, impactful techniques that have been useful in extracting meaningful insights are discussed.

Several review articles have previously addressed the investigation of p–n junction design.

Machine learning has exhibited excellent performance in progressively accelerating the development of Carbon-based luminescent nanomaterials (CLNMs) in broad applications.

The review summarizes recent advances in preparing monodisperse colloidal spheres with a high refractive index, effective methods for assembling these spheres into structural color materials and their intriguing optical properties with related applications.

The promising roadmap for boosting the performance of TMD FETs, circuitry applications, perspective of the computing scheme and challenges of current integration technologies have been reviewed.

Polymer single crystals with confirmed structures through single-crystal structure analysis or electron diffraction analysis have been brought into a common platform to showcase their preparation, properties, importance, advantages, and potential.

Use of polymers as promising strategies to increase the reliability and boosting the PV performances of perovskite solar cells.

In this paper, the progress made in optimizing the structures, composition, crystallization kinetics and device performance of bismuth-based perovskite materials is reviewed to show some of the opportunities and challenges they have encountered.

The review summarizes the precursors, characterization techniques, factors moderating film growth, and the properties such as crystal structure, chemical composition, surface morphology, and optical properties of Ga₂O₃ films fabricated by ALD.

This review presents mechanisms and design strategies to obtain novel blue HLCT characteristic fluorophores for high-performance blue OLEDs. Depending on their molecular structures and functional groups they are further classified.

This review provides a comprehensive summary of the current progress in copper-based metal oxide chemiresistive gas sensors from the aspects of synthesis strategies, morphological influence, functional strategies, and excitation strategies.

This review presents a new vista on the recent advances in molecular design, photophysical and electroluminescence performances of NIR emitters and their OLEDs.

The BDF-based materials have great significance in promoting the development of high-efficiency OSCs. We comprehensively summarize the structure–property relationships of BDF-based materials, and discuss the empirical regularities and perspectives.

Besides the perovskite light absorber, engineering of the charge transport layers plays a prominent role in synergistically enhancing the efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells.

The structure of the electrical-double layer of the graphene/aqueous–electrolyte interface is challenging to model and characterize experimentally. Here we review the published data and discuss their interpretation in the context of the EDL theory.

Adopting the additive and subtractive fabrication techniques to integrate miniaturized portable devices with carbon dots for on-site and real-time analysis.

This review summarizes the recent progress of half-metallic double perovskite oxides from theoretical and experimental aspects as well as their versatile applications.

Overview on the use of lanthanide-containing fluorimetric sensors for amine detection. Most of these sensors use only 1 lanthanide, but 2 lanthanides may allow a higher resolution. The number of lanthanides determines the sensing mechanism.

Mechanochromic luminescence (MCL) materials have several promising advantages, such as controllable response, high sensing ability and recyclable utilization, and thus can be widely used as file encryption, security inks, stress sensors, etc.

This review systematically summarizes the preparation strategies of gold nanocluster composites, analyzes their properties, and discusses their applications in sensing, bioimaging, and catalysis.

Two-dimensional (2D) hetero-phase homojunctions have become increasingly popular in recent years.

Heat conduction, electromagnetic compatibility, flame retardancy mechanism, ways to enhance thermal conductivity and multifunctional design including heat conduction, flame retardancy and electromagnetic compatibility for polymer-based composites.

Advances and challenges in patterning of perovskite materials and fabrication of optoelectronic devices using IJP technologies are presented.

Phosphor-converted near-infrared light-emitting diodes based on garnet structure as the host for chromium incorporation are promising light sources for modern compact devices and are also an excellent alternative to traditional tungsten lamps.

Personalized healthcare (PHC) is a booming sector in the health science domain wherein researchers from diverse technical backgrounds are focusing on the need for remote human health monitoring.

In this review, we summarize several important BP-based nanohybrids and the majority of the reported synthetic routes, properties as well as applications of the nanohybrids.

One-dimensional fibrous electronics has become one of the most important building blocks for weaving flexible and stretchable electronic devices, which holds great potential in practical wearable applications to weave a magnificent world.

This review summarizes the research on reducing the transit time, diffusion time, and RC time of InGaN-based visible light PDs to improve device performance, which is of great significance for the further development of visible light PDs.

Quantum sensing with shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer promise for chemical analysis. Preserving favorable NV spin and charge properties while enabling molecular surface functionalization remains a critical challenge.

Interfacial engineering of perovskite solar cells and its key roles are highlighted, and an overview of the recent advances in their related strategies using different materials in improving the photovoltaic performance and stability is given.

This review focuses on the morphological evolution of films for organic photovoltaics from the perspective of in situ measurements, showing factors governing the final morphology during liquid–solid transitions.

This review analyses predominant pathways of non-radiative recombination losses in perovskite light-emitting diodes, followed by a summary of recent advances in reducing such losses as well as future directions toward the radiative limit.

This review summarizes the current prospect of FAPbBr₃ nanocrystals – from synthesis to applications in light emitting diodes and highlights the challenges and promising strategies to mitigate the concerns.

This review summarizes the application progress of conducting redox polymers with energy storage capability for different types of rechargeable batteries.

Transistor photomemories have been vastly progressing along with their potential applications utilized in IoT and AI fields. Hence, it is essential to classify the device working principles with device operations to ease further development.

This review was aimed to analyze existing polymer-based technologies for electrets used in memory devices and artificial synapses. We categorize five types of electrets and analyze their performance, characteristics, applicability, and limitations.

This review covers recent advances in multiple boron–nitrogen doped π-conjugated systems including their synthetic strategies and applications in optoelectronic devices.

Herein, the effects of impurities (e.g., donors, acceptors, co-doping impurities, Al and In, and surface passivators) and defects (e.g., intrinsic defects and deep-level defects) on the material properties of Ga₂O₃ are summarized.

Illustration of strain-, pressure-, temperature-, humidity- and gas sensor.

Recent advances in the controllable growth of bilayer 2D single crystals via the chemical vapor deposition method are comprehensively presented.

This review summarizes the development and applications of polymer-based organic photodiodes and organic phototransistors, and provides an outlook on their development prospects and obstacles, aiming to propose new design strategies.

This review provides an overview of the basic concepts and operation mechanisms of ultraviolet (UV) photodetectors (PDs), the main research status, and future outlooks of II–VI group compound semiconductor-based UVPDs.

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are broadly assembled in two ways, i.e., regular (n–i–p) and inverted (p–i–n) structures.

This review summarizes the solution-processing techniques toward organic semiconductor devices from the perspective of the physical state of the film-forming substrates.

We present the recent advances in the fabrication methods, materials for regulation, and applications of flexible photodetectors.

Strategies for designing advanced thermoelectric materials.

The modulation of pyro-phototronic current using heterointerfaces with ZnO, which include doping, heating, bandgap tuning, etc., induces the self-powering capability of PDs.

Group III nitrides are attracting considerable attention as promising materials for a variety of applications due to their wide bandgap, high electron mobility, high thermal stability, and many other exceptional properties.

This review article summarizes the synthesis and the fluorescence mechanism together with the most important applications in thermometry, bio-imaging, LSCs and photocatalysis of red/near-infrared C-dots.

Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs) can convert mechanical energy into electricity and harvest this energy.

An overview of recent development on stability improvement and various applications of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals by metal organic frameworks.

Graphene based supercapacitors and batteries are a highly competitive choice for electrochemical energy storage devices, thanks to their ultrahigh power density, improved rate capability, long-term cyclability, and remarkable safety.

An overview on recent advances in the fundamental understanding of how interfaces of mesoscopic perovskite solar cells (mp-PSCs) with different architectures, upon incorporating various charge transport layers, influence their performance.

This review comprehensively summarized and discussed the recent achievements towards innovative strategies, excellent properties and promising application to create functional materials based on phenazine derivatives in optical sensing and electrochemistry.