Photosensitive Materials and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Photosensitive materials represent a huge variety of materials of both inorganic and organic nature that are capable of changing their structural (chemical and/or physical) properties under light exposure. The design and development of highly efficient and cost-effective photosensitive materials are considered one of the main streams of material science research. This is due to the increasing demand of advanced optical materials in many fields dealing with light exploitation, such as imaging, solar technology, holography, optical data storage, optical sensing, photonics, optical structuring of surface, etc. Depending on their potential application, photosensitive materials can be developed as coatings, films, nanostructures, surface structures, liquid crystal layers and others. Different approaches have been used to optimise materials’ properties in order to satisfy the requirements imposed by each particular application. For example, modification of the material by doping with nanoparticles or liquid crystals allows achieving a few goals: improving exposure sensitivity of the material, its dynamic range and robustness, introducing additional functionality and expanding the range of potential applications.

This Special Issue focuses on photosensitive materials and their applications. It aims to report recent advances in the field of photosensitive material development, their most promising applications and material research challenges.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Photosensitive materials for optoelectronics;
• Photosensitive materials for optical patterning of surfaces;
• Holographic recording materials;
• Holographic optical elements;
• Functionalised photosensitive materials for sensing applications;
• Photosensitive hybrid nanostructured materials for sunlight capture;
• Photosensitive nanocomposite materials;
• Materials for two-photon polymerisation lithography;
• Photosensitive materials for application in photonic devices.

Dr. Tatsiana Mikulchyk
Prof. Dr. Tsvetanka Babeva
Prof. Dr. Izabela Naydenova
Guest Editors

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