Themed collection Journal of Materials Chemistry C Recent Review Articles

This perspective highlights the significance of crystal engineering intervention in the design and development of applied optical materials.

This review covers the chemistry and material aspects of TCBD/DCNQ-based π-twisted charge-transfer chromophores for utilization as bulk heterojunctions in organic solar cells.

This review article provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in visible-light-excited RTP CDs, which includes the luminescence mechanisms, preparation strategies, property regulation, and potential applications.

This review summarizes the recent advancements in organic artificial synapses and their applications in simulating somatosensory, visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory and multimodal sensory neural systems.

This review summaries the research progress of perovskite materials in X-ray detectors and provides ideas for the development of more environmentally friendly and higher-performance X-ray detectors.

This review introduces the response mechanism of photoresponsive lanthanide luminescent materials. In particular, various applications in luminescent actuators, photoswitches, intelligent anticounterfeiting, and theranostics are highlighted.

As emerging medical tool microneedles have attracted significant attention since puncture the skin noninvasively and painlessly, facilitating tasks such as physiological monitoring, disease diagnosis, and transdermal drug delivery.

This review summarizes recent developments in quadruple perovskite oxides, including their preparation strategies, structural characterization, physical properties, and potential applications across diverse technological and scientific domains.

This review summarizes the reported photochromic properties of apatite skeletal structure photochromic materials. Apatite-type PC materials exhibit more abundant color changes and absorption bands and centers, creating new and substantial opportunities for adjusting and optimizing PC properties.

This review summarizes the recent advances in MXene-based and other materials-based responsive actuators, and their challenges and prospects are discussed.

This review explores factors influencing MXene oxidation and a range of shielding strategies to prevent MXene oxidation. These strategies include surface passivation, use of antioxidants, organic solvents, inert atmospheres, and ionic liquids, etc.

This article provides a comprehensive review of organic photonic synaptic transistors (OPSTs) used for artificial visual systems (AVSs). The typical structures and some innovative applications of OPSTs in AVSs were discussed.

Organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) mark a breakthrough in flexible electronics, offering advantages over traditional inorganic semiconductors through their adaptability, cost efficiency, and low-temperature production.

Advanced coatings using polybenzoxazine modified by molecular design and blending with comprehensive performances.

This paper classifies MXene-based materials by composition and structure, showing that multicomponent designs and structural modulation enhance absorption. The paper also discusses future directions for MXene MA composites.

Exploring the fundamental understanding of the structure–property–performance relationship of porphyrins functionalized with 2D materials.

This article reviews the fabrication methods, structural design, sensing performances and multifunctional applications of MXene-based stress sensors, and their challenges and development trends are also discussed.

Infrared (IR) to visible up-conversion devices made by incorporating IR detectors with visible emitting units are able to directly convert IR light into visible light.

A breakthrough to achieve high-power THz sources is needed. This review covers recent advancements in laser-based THz generation, specifically using ultrafast lasers.

This review introduced the research progress and present situation of solar blind detectors based on metal halide perovskite (MHP) in recent years from different dimensions: three-dimensional, two-dimensional, one-dimensional and zero dimensional.

Effective design and regulation strategies of carbon-based metacomposites classified based on their composition, structure, interface and defect engineering, and external field for adjustable performance.

Research progress in NiO based electrochromic materials and devices.

This review focuses on the development of tactile sensors for parameters such as pressure, strain and integration of multiple functions. The application prospect of bionic sensors in e-skin, human–computer interaction, and bionic robots is envisioned.

This review explores laser-induced graphene (LIG), highlighting parameters for synthesis and microstructure tuning to enhance its properties for electrochemical and physical sensing applications, as well as its challenges.

Nonconjugate linkers (sp³ cores) are a versatile platform for molecular design for TADF OLEDs. The introduction of an sp³ core disrupts direct conjugation between donor and acceptor units, preventing immediate charge transfer between them.

A review concerning the interaction mechanisms and functions of various types of ionic molecules in perovskite solar cells in the past year, as well as suggestions on their molecular design and future studies.

This paper introduces the materials, preparation, and applications of intrinsically stretchable organic field-effect transistors and discusses the challenges and advancements in their development.

Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are promising candidates for single photon sources (SPSs), pivotal for quantum technology. This review explores their applications, advancements, and potential in quantum photonics.

Advances in processing of active layers of organic thin-film transistor (OTFT)-based chemical and biological sensors have enabled significant developments in their performance, achieving part-per-billion molar concentration limits of detection.

This review showcases the diverse functionalities of 2D materials and state-of-the-art developments in device structures, working principles, design strategies of materials, and the integration of 2D material-based optoelectronic synaptic devices.

This article reviews different synaptic devices and discusses the challenges associated with implementing these devices in hardware, along with corresponding solutions, applications, and prospecting future research directions.

Nanomaterial-based sensors have emerged as promising candidates for iodide ion sensing owing to their unique properties, such as high surface area, tunable surface chemistry, and excellent electrical/optical characteristics.

The use of perovskite-based nanomaterials in smartphone sensors, which enhance accessibility and efficiency in health diagnostics, and their potential in the integration with wearable technology for improved health monitoring is explored.

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have demonstrated a wide range of applications because of their versatile functionalities. Surface-grafted MOF particles with polymers possess merits of both components. The synergetic combination holds great potentials as emerging materials.

Herein, we present different approaches through which tin-based perovskite solar cells can potentially achieve prolonged stability under various environmental conditions and high efficiency, paving the way for future commercialization.

Machine learning can predict the properties of phase change azobenzene derivatives and guide molecular design to further improve their photothermal conversion performance.

An overview of fabrication methods, including CMOS, nanojoining, and 3D printing techniques, materials, structures, properties, mechanisms, and applications of memristors, as well as the most recent advancements in molecular memristors, is provided.

This review presents diverse growth methods employed in the fabrication of room temperature-synthesized MOF films, emphasizing their significant applications across various fields.

Conductive hydrogels have great potential in the field of electrophysiological signal acquisition because of their outstanding properties.

Theoretical and experimental approaches for the development of organic room temperature phosphorescence compounds exhibiting blue, green, red, and white emissions for many potential applications are analysed and classified.

In optical systems for communication, sensing, and imaging, integrating optoelectronic and electronic components on-chip to develop optoelectronic applications has become the focus of future research.

Bifacial solar cells (BFSCs) are designed to enhance electrical power generation per unit area compared to traditional monofacial cells. They accomplish this by capturing sunlight from both the front and rear surfaces.

Carbazole–cyanostilbene conjugates exhibit promising optical properties, including AIE and MFC. This review explores their diverse applications across various fields, highlighting their unique characteristics and potential impact.

The escalating demand for artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoTs), and energy-efficient high-volume data processing has brought the need for innovative solutions to the forefront.

In recent years, bismuth-based semiconductors have become a research hotspot in the new semiconductor field due to their unique optical and electronic properties.

This review presents a comprehensive perspective on electrically driven hydrogel actuators, delving into their principles, molecular and composite designs, fabrication methodologies, device configurations, and their applications.

Two dimension (2D) material-based photodetectors usually indicate excellent properties such as ultrafast and broadband response, but the atomic thickness of 2D materials usually leads to low absorption coefficient.

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with two dimensions (2D) exhibit remarkable electronic and optoelectronic properties that have made them a highly promising platform for the development of photodetectors (PDs).

Interest in alternative powering solutions for the growing internet of things (IoT) has boosted the research on third-generation solar cell devices.

Herein, we summarize the recent advances of the additive-assisted strategy with solvent/solid additives and binary additives and their working mechanism in OSCs.

Various donor–acceptor heterostructures with type-II band alignment are reviewed for distinct characteristics and excitonic devices of interlayer and intermolecular excitons using inorganic and organic semiconductors.

This article reviews the research progress and challenges of multi-functional low-dimensional nanomaterials in advanced perovskite light-emitting diodes.

This review summarizes recent developments on cross-linking strategies which have shown great potential in enhancing all-round stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and provides guidance for further design of cross-linking molecules or approaches to promote the commercialization of PSCs.

This paper systematically reviewed the preparation technologies, research progress, and typical applications of memristors in biomedical fields.

This review article provides a critical overview of the diverse technological streams of interface engineering formed in the field of OTFTs.

To date, various optimization strategies have been performed to enhance the performance of CsPbBr₃ PSCs, such as additive engineering, interface engineering, HTL optimization and so on, and the best efficiency has reached 11.08%.