Recent Developments in Synthetic Metals
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 277
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“Recent Developments in Synthetic Metals” is a Special Issue covering the development of synthetic metals, including their design, synthesis, properties, optimization, and applications in electronic devices. Of particular interest are papers that focus on condensed matter physics, organic electronics, photonic materials and devices, conducting polymers, metals and alloys, materials in electronics, semiconductor nanostructures, low-dimensional materials, optical and magnetic materials, and material chemistry. The aims of this Special Issue are to highlight the most recent advances in basic chemical and physical phenomena related to material design and to stimulate ideas for new or improved processing techniques, in order to obtain materials with desired structural features and properties. More specifically, it will cover (but is not limited to) the following fundamental and applied research topics:
- Nanoscale molecular and electronic materials;
- Optical materials including luminescent materials, transparent conducting and semiconducting nanostructures, optoelectronics, magneto-optical and laser materials, optical fibers, and plasmonic structures;
- Conducting and semiconducting polymers and molecular materials;
- Organic charge-transfer compounds and metal chain compounds.
Papers suitable for publication in this issue cover such topics as the photoconductive and electronic properties of organic and hybrid organic–inorganic semiconductors, thin-film structures and their characterization in the context of material processing, charge and exciton transport, and electronic and optoelectronic devices. This Special Issue also welcomes review articles within the scope of the journal.
Dr. Nima Naderi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- organic semiconductors
- photodetectors
- optoelectronics
- solar cells
- thin films
- sensors
- organic electronics
- charge transport
- perovskites
- metal–organic frameworks
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