Organic and Inorganic Luminescent Materials, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rare earth complexes; organic light-emitting diodes; carbon dots; luminescent mechanisms; energy transfer; carriers trapping
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Interests: rare earth complexes; luminescent mechanisms; coordination complexes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Organic and inorganic luminescent materials have garnered global attention due to their wide scope of application (e.g., display, lighting, biological detection, and environmental monitoring). Basic investigations into these materials have been conducted in recent years; for example, based on the development of organic luminescent materials, OLEDs have been successfully commercialized and are considered the most promising candidates for next-generation display and lighting technology due to their high image quality, auto-emission, flexibility, and other merits. Recently, carbon dots, perovskites, aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-type emitters, and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)-type emitters, as well as their applications, have been thoroughly investigated.
In order to showcase the latest advances in organic and inorganic luminescent materials, this Special Issue, entitled “Organic and Inorganic Luminescent Materials, 3rd Edition”, aims to collate recent advances in the field of organic and inorganic luminescent materials, including topics such as novel luminescent materials, luminescent devices, luminescent mechanisms, and other applications of organic and inorganic luminescent materials. This Special Issue welcomes original research, reviews, and perspective articles focused on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
Progress in organic and inorganic luminescent materials;
Molecular design of organic and inorganic luminescent materials;
Progress in the application of organic and inorganic luminescent materials;
Luminescent mechanisms and processes of luminescent materials and devices.
Prof. Dr. Liang Zhou
Dr. Dan Zou
Guest Editors
Dr. Xibao Zhang
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- luminescent
- material
- organic
- inorganic
- OLED
- organic light-emitting diode
- carbon dot
- perovskite
- aggregation-induced emission
- AIE
- thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter
- TADF
- mechanism
- design
- application
- process
- display
- lighting
- detection
- monitoring
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