Organic/Polymer Optoelectronic Functional Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Organic/polymer optoelectronic functional materials refer to organic materials that are applied in the field of optoelectronic technology with the characteristics of photon and electron generation, conversion and transfer, including organic photovoltaic materials, organic light-emitting materials, photosensitive materials, organic electrochromic materials, organic optical materials, organic sensing materials, etc. They are widely used in organic bioelectronics and optoelectronic devices, such as OECTs, OLEDs, OSCs, OTEs and fluorescent probes, due to their low cost, light weight and easy-to-structure modifications. Organic/polymer optoelectronic functional materials are rapidly expanding as evidenced by the great recent number of symposia organized at international conferences, as well as the huge increase in new publications. Progress in the understanding of the active semiconductor has in general been rapid, arising from numerous outstanding research work of the chemists and physicists in chemical synthesis, device fabrication and mechanism investigation. Though the materials applied to OSCs have achieved remarkable results with PCE exceeding 20%, there are still challenges to its industrialization. In particular, the applicability of organic/polymer optoelectronic functional materials in biomedical devices is still underdeveloped. Thus, research aiming to answer the basic questions is still popular, and this Special Issue will focus on ingenious molecular design and synthesis of specific-function materials, revealing the mechanism and structure–property relations, the preparation and industrialization of high-efficiency devices, etc.

Dr. Xingxing Chen
Guest Editor

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• synthesis of novel molecules and crystal growth
• mechanism investigation of functional devices
• structure–property relation investigation
• thermoelectric properties
• power conversion efficiency
• fluorescence quantum efficiency
• near-infrared II absorption
• electron mobility
• device fabrication
• polymer solar cell
• organic electrochemical transistors
• organic light-emitting diodes
• photoreactors
• photocatalysis
• bioelectronics
• semiconductors
• probe
• optical properties
• NMR and MS
• ESR
• UPS and PESA
• electrochemical cyclic voltammetry
• spectroelectrochemistry
• GIWAXS (grazing incident wide-angle X-ray diffraction)
• AFM (atomic force microscope)
• conjugated molecules
• X-ray diffraction