Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Photofunctional Materials
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Cross-Field Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 3867
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced functional materials; luminescent transition-metal complexes; organic semiconductors; π-conjugated compounds; organic electronics
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Interests: organic optoelectronic; functional materials; novel materials design; materials chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, novel photofunctional materials, including luminescent transition metal complexes (LTMCs) and thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) materials, play a crucial role in the development of advanced photofunctional materials. LTMCs and TADF materials have aroused extensive attention, owing to their diverse structural/molecular design, structural diversity, and rich photophysical properties. As such, they have been widely and wisely used in the fields of photocatalysis, electroluminescence, organic solar cells, biological sensing and imaging, photodynamic therapy, etc. Synthetic chemists were able to design and prepare a wide variety of photofunctional LTMCs and TADF materials. Structural studies of these materials revealed the presence of novel photophysical phenomena, allowing a deeper understanding of the structure-property relationships and extending their potential applications. For example, with a strong spin-orbit coupling effect or the low energy gap between siglet and triplet states, phosphorescent transition metal complexes (e.g., iridium(III), platinum(II), etc.) and TADF materials can be used as triplet emitters to utilize both singlet and triplet excitons to greatly enhance the efficiency of electroluminescence, breaking the upper limit of the conventional fluorescent device efficiency. Thus, synthetic efforts in this field have produced a large number of LTMCs and TADF materials with rich photophysical properties. This Special Issue on “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Photofunctional Materials” should become a timely status report, summarizing and showcasing the fundamental progresses and practical advancements in recent years.
Dr. Peng Tao
Dr. Song Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- 2D materials
- photonics
- solar cells
- sensors
- microelectronics
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