Photoactive/Photosensitive Materials and Composites: Properties and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Photoactive and photosensitive materials are materials that can undergo rapid physical and chemical changes in a relatively short period of time upon interaction with light. They have attracted considerable attention due to their unique properties and variety of applications in various fields and technologies, including optical data storage, displays, eye‐protecting glasses and ophthalmic lenses, smart windows and sensors, stimuli-responsive polymers, anti-counterfeiting inks, UV printing, QR codes, photochromic fingerprints, metal ion detection, UV sensing smart textiles, and photoswitchable fluorescent nanoparticles for ultrahigh-resolution imaging. The design and development of new photoactive and photosensitive materials will help to solve the problems that have arisen with the development of new technologies.

This Special Issue is open to all advances in fluorescent, phosphorescent, and electroluminescent materials, as well as recent progress in the development of photosensitive materials based on photochromic dyes. We invite submissions of novel and original experimental or theoretical research as well as reviews that expand our understanding of light interaction and the synthesis and application of photoactive and photosensitive materials.

Dr. Stela Minkovska
Guest Editor

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• photoactive
• photosensitive
• photoresponsive
• photochromic
• photoswitchable
• chemosensors
• nanocomposites
• smart materials