Synthesis, Characterization, Photophysical Properties and Applications of Functional Materials
This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Chemistry".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Photoactive functional materials have been generating substantial interest due to their potential applications in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), optoelectronics, chemical sensors/probes, and biological labeling. With a focus on the development of various luminous devices, much effort has been devoted to the chemical modification of the materials’ core, such as the incorporation of functional groups, heteroatoms, metal ions, polymers, quantum dots, etc., which could pave the way for the generation of novel photoactive materials with desired properties. These functional materials not only have an interesting structures and unique electronic properties, but have versatile applications in materials science, biology, medicine, etc. For these reasons, they continue to fascinate researchers. Due to the great synthetic advances and the indepth photophysical understanding that have been obtained, some have entered the commercialization phase.
We firmly believe that this Special Issue will provide a collection of both research articles and review articles reflecting the significant progress in the field of photoactive functional materials.
Dr. Pounraj Thanasekaran
Dr. Veerasamy Sathish
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- materials for chemosensing, biosensing and bioimaging
- non-linear optical materials
- energy and information storage materials
- photochromic functional materials (dithienylethene, azo-dye and spiropyrans)
- materials for photodynamic therapy
- photo-catalytic materials for environmental applications
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Published Papers
Molecules - ISSN 1420-3049