Dear Colleagues,

Optical materials have been widely studied in various fields due to their excellent properties. Thus, a lot of optical materials of various shapes and compositions have been synthesized and applied to many fields. Recently, a Special Issue under the title of Synthesis and Application of Optical Materials was successfully conducted. This Special Issue also aims to provide a variety of original contributions detailing the synthesis and application of optical materials.

Our Special Issue will include the synthesis and application of optical materials that exhibit a variety of unique properties, including plasmonic materials, quantum dots, carbon materials and upconversion nanomaterials. It might also include applications based on optical phenomena occurring at the nanometer scale, such as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF), plasmon resonance energy transfer (PRET), direct energy transfer (DET), Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), fluorescence quenching and phototherapy (e.g., photothermal therapy and photodynamic therapy) and so on.

Prof. Dr. Bong-Hyun Jun
Guest Editor

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• plasmonic materials
• quantum dots
• upconversion nanomaterials
• carbon materials
• metal materials
• application of nanomaterials