Organic Photodetectors
Open Call for Papers until 1 December 2026
We are delighted to announce this open call for papers to contribute to a themed collection for Journal of Materials Chemistry C on Organic Photodetectors, guest edited by Professor Can Gao (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Professor Martin Heeney (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia), and Professor Peter Skabara (University of Glasgow, UK).
Scope
Organic photodetectors (OPDs) have attracted increasing attention owing to their unique advantages such as mechanical flexibility, lightweight form factors, spectral tunability, and compatibility with low-cost solution processing. These features make them promising candidates for next-generation imaging, sensing, and optical communication technologies. Continuous progress in organic semiconductor materials, device architectures, and photophysical understanding has significantly improved the performance of OPDs in terms of responsivity, detectivity, response speed, and spectral range. This Journal of Materials Chemistry C collection aims to highlight recent advances in materials design, device physics, and emerging applications of organic photodetectors.
Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:
- Design and synthesis of organic semiconductor materials for photodetection
- Structure–property relationships in organic photodetector materials
- Photophysical processes including exciton generation, separation, and charge transport
- Interface engineering and energy level alignment in OPDs
- High-performance photodetectors with enhanced responsivity, detectivity, and response speed
- Broadband photodetection covering UV, visible, and near-infrared regions
- Flexible, stretchable, and wearable organic photodetectors
- Organic phototransistors and novel device architectures for photodetection
- Hybrid photodetectors combining organic semiconductors with perovskites, quantum dots, or 2D materials
- Organic photodetector arrays and imaging technologies
- Stability, scalability, and manufacturing strategies for practical OPD applications
Submit your high-quality research
This call for papers is open for the following article types:
- Communications
- Full papers
If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly to the online submission service for Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Organic Photodetectors collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.
Please also note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then we would be happy to answer them.
Guest Editors
Professor Can Gao (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Can Gao is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2019, and carried out postdoctoral research at ICCAS from 2020 to 2022. She joined ICCAS as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024. Her research interests mainly focus on the development of high mobility emissive organic semiconductors, their optoelectronic properties and their applications in organic light-emitting transistors. She has published more than 40 papers in Nat. Mater., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev. and other journals. She currently serves as a Managing Editor of Wearable Electronics. She has received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including the Young Scientists Fund (Class B and C) and the General Program, and is a recipient of the Beijing Nova Program.
Professor Martin Heeney (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Martin Heeney is a Professor of Chemical Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia and received his PhD from the same institution in 1999. Following an industrial postdoc, he joined Merck Chemicals in 2000, eventually becoming project leader for the organic electronics team. He made the move to academia in 2007, initially at Queen Mary University of London before moving to Imperial College in 2009 and KAUST in 2022. His research interests include the design, synthesis and characterisation of conjugated materials for a variety of applications. He has been named five times by Thomson Reuters as a HighlyCited researcher in the field of Materials Science, is a recipient of the RSC Corday-Morgan (2013) medal, the RSC Peter Day (2020) award and the Macro group UK medal (2020).
Professor Peter Skabara (University of Glasgow, UK)
Pete Skabara completed his PhD in 1994 under the supervision of Professor Martin Bryce at the University of Durham before taking up a Max-Planck Fellowship with Professor Klaus Müllen at the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz.
His academic career began at Sheffield Hallam University in 1995, and he moved to the University of Manchester, before joining the University of Strathclyde. In 2018 he moved from Strathclyde to his present position as the Ramsay Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow.
Research interests are in the field of organic semiconductors, which spans electronic and photonic devices and sensors, with an emphasis on synthesis and bulk properties, which are in turn driven by careful design and control of molecular architecture. His work on monodisperse, star-shaped conjugated macromolecules gained him a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and the RSC Peter Day Award. He has also held a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship and a Leverhulme/Royal Society Africa Award.
