Transition Metal-Based Luminescent Materials and Their Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2022) | Viewed by 4589
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Interests: inorganic photochemistry; photophysics; optoelectronics; bioimaging; stimuli-responsive materials; photoactive self-assembled materials; soft actuators
Interests: organic/organometallic synthesis, photophysics, photoactive systems, solar energy conversion, optoelectronics, green chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
Photoactive transition metal complexes (TMCs) have received great attention in the recent past from both fundamental and application research point of views. Much effort has been devoted to the study of complexes comprising second- and third-row transition metals with d6, d8, and d10 electronic configurations, such as Ir(III), Pt(II), Re(I), Ru(II), and Os(II), as well as first-row metals like Cu(I) and Zn(II). Particularly, a judicious combination of a metal ion and its coordination sphere results in compounds with peculiar photophysical properties and a rich redox behaviour, which can be finely tuned by a rational chemical design of the ligands. These compounds are typically characterized by long-lived excited states exhibiting triplet character after efficient intersystem crossing processes. As a result, enormous progress in the field of photoactive molecular and supramolecular TMC-containing materials has been achieved, also stimulated by their fascinating applications in several fields.
This Special Issue focuses on the most recent advances in the field of molecular and supramolecular materials based on phosphorescent TMCs and their applications, spanning from light-emitting devices and solar energy conversion to bioimaging and sensing. Full papers, short communications, and review articles presenting and discussing the most recent trends in the field are welcome.
Dr. Matteo Mauro
Dr. Cristina Cebrián Ávila
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Transition metal complexes
- Photo-induced processes
- Organic light emitting diodes
- Light-emitting electrochemical cells
- Bioimaging
- Electrogenerated chemiluminescence
- Thermally activated delayed fluorescence
- Solar cells
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