Journal of Materials Chemistry is publishing a themed issue in celebration of the 70th birthday of Professor Fred Wudl later this year; however as there’s a symposium in honor of Fred Wudl’s 70th birthday starting on the 7th January I thought I’d give you a sneak preview of the articles.
- Fred Wudl. Discovering new science through making new molecules
- The thiophene/phenylene co-oligomers: exotic molecular semiconductors integrating high-performance electronic and optical functionalities
- Materials chemistry of fullerene C60 derivatives
- A review of powder modifications in conventional glass-ionomer dental cements
- Chalcogenoarene semiconductors: new ideas from old materials
- Alkoxy-substituted poly(arylene-ethynylene)-alt-poly(arylene-vinylene)s: synthesis, electroluminescence and photovoltaic applications
- Exotic materials for bio-organic electronics
- Unexpected and selective formation of an (e,e,e,e)-tetrakis-[60]fullerene derivative via electrolytic retro-cyclopropanation of a D2h-hexakis-[60]fullerene adduct
- Polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells: function and utility of inserting a hole transport and electron blocking layer into the device structure
- Tuning of electronic properties and rigidity in PEDOT analogs
- Carbon nanotubes from short hydrocarbon templates. Energy analysis of the Diels–Alder cycloaddition/rearomatization growth strategy
- Polymer solar cells based on diphenylmethanofullerenes with reduced sidechain length
- Efficient oxide phosphors for light upconversion; green emission from Yb3+ and Ho3+ co-doped Ln2BaZnO5 (Ln = Y, Gd)
- Charge and energy transfer processes in ruthenium(II) phthalocyanine based electron donor–acceptor materials—implications for solar cell performance
- Synthesis and properties of a triphenylene–butadiynylene macrocycle
- Probing magnetic interactions in columnar phases of a paramagnetic gold dithiolene complex
- Preparation, characterization, and photoswitching/light-emitting behaviors of coronene nanowires
- Varied nanostructures from a single multifunctional molecular material
- The return of photoelastic stress measurements: utilizing birefringence to monitor damage and repair in healable materials
- Diffusion of Al, O, Pt, Hf, and Y atoms on α-Al2O3(0001): implications for the role of alloying elements in thermal barrier coatings
- Glutathione S-transferase as a general and reversible tag for surface immobilization of proteins
- Electronic, redox and charge transport properties of an unusual hybrid structure: a bis(septithiophene) bridged by a fused tetrathiafulvalene (TTF)
- New stable donor–acceptor dyads for molecular electronics
- A comparative theoretical study of exciton-dissociation and charge-recombination processes in oligothiophene/fullerene and oligothiophene/perylenediimide complexes for organic solar cells
- A solid-state switch containing an electrochemically switchable bistable poly[n]rotaxane
- Preparation, magnetism and electronic structures of cadmium technetates
- Computational assessment of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions to graphene
- C60 dimers connected through pleiadene bridges: fullerenes talking to each other
- Dual [proton]/[hole] mixed valence in a molecular metal: balancing chemical activity in the solid state by tapping into a molecular hole reservoir
- Magnetostructural studies of palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes of verdazyl radicals
- Liquid crystalline phthalocyanine–fullerene dyads
- Side chain engineering of fused aromatic thienopyrazine based low band-gap polymers for enhanced charge carrier mobility
- Optimizing reaction conditions for synthesis of electron donor-[60]fullerene interlocked multiring systems
- Mixed selenium-sulfur fused ring systems as building blocks for novel polymers used in field effect transistors
- Photoinduced electron transfer in a clicked fullerene–porphyrin conjugate
- Synthesis, crystallization, electrochemistry and single crystal X-ray analysis of a methoxy-substituted-tris-phenalenyl based neutral radical
- Using bis(pinacolato)diboron to improve the quality of regioregular conjugated co-polymers
- Protection of lithium metal surfaces using tetraethoxysilane
- Small band gap copolymers based on furan and diketopyrrolopyrrole for field-effect transistors and photovoltaic cells
