Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

Don’t forget Journal of Materials Chemistry is publishing a themed issue on Materials for Biosurfaces. Please contact the editorial office if you would like to contribute an article. The Guest Editors of this themed issue are Professor Christopher K. Ober (Cornell University, USA), Dr. Christian Ohm (Cornell University, USA), Ms. Mary E. Welch (Cornell University, USA).

The issue will focus on the synthetic and physical chemistry of biosurfaces with a primary attention to polymer based surfaces and the role of surfaces in biomedical related applications such as biosensors. Materials of interest include polymer brushes, hydrogels, membranes and self-assembled monolayers. The role of surfaces in cell adhesion and cell-surface interactions is also a topic of this special issue.  

The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is 20^th March 2012

Manuscripts can be submitted using the RSC’s on-line submissions service. Please clearly state in the comment to editors section during submission that the manuscript is “submitted in response to the call for papers for the themed issue on Materials for Biosurfaces”.

Journal of Materials Chemistry will publish a themed issue on Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage in 2012. Please contact the editorial office if you are interested in contributing an article. The Guest Editors for this issue are Professor Michael Graetzel (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausann) and Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 

One of the main challenges facing mankind in the 21st Century is in the energy sector. Rapid increase in industrialization, urbanization and population growth has led to pronounced increase in the global energy demands. With depleting fossil fuels and growing concern on environmental protection, urgent research efforts are needed to find alternative energy resources that are efficient, economical and ecologically friendly. We need to find urgently new means of generating, store and transport power at TW scale.  Since energy resources such as solar and wind are intermittent and power usage is increasingly on numerous portable electronic devices, efficient means have to be found for storage and transportation of energy. A number of electrical-electronic, photonic and optoelectronic devices have been proposed for this purpose. Typical systems under consideration include photovoltaic solar cells, batteries, supercapacitors, field-effect transistors, fuel cells, thermoelectric, thermal- and photo-catalysts and luminescence display devices.

Fortunately during late last century there has been a phenomenal increase in our understanding of systems at the atomic and molecular level. Advances permit now to tailor-make, characterize and manipulate materials at single molecule level and build devices putting pieces together at the molecular level (nanoengineering in a bottom-up approach). The topic of this special issue is how to use advances in material science and nanotechnology in designing systems for efficient inter-conversion of energy forms between thermal, solar (photonics) and electrical energy. Graphenes, Carbon nanotubes and conducting polymers are typical examples where nanoscale design permits their efficient performance in a number of energy conversion and storage devices. All devices dealing with conversion of energy forms and storage will be considered for this issue. Hydrogen produced via photochemical decomposition of water is an attractive energy resource. Hence hydrogen production, its storage and burning in fuel cells to get electricity will be included as well.  

The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is 11th June 2012

Manuscripts can be submitted using the RSC’s on-line submissions service. Please clearly state that the manuscript is submitted in response to the call for papers for the themed issue on Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage.

The themed issue on Organic Optoelectronic Materials is now online. Guest editors Wenping Hu, Zhenan Bao and Klaus Muellen introduce this themed issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry in their Editorial. This themed issue is dedicated to one of the pioneers of the field, Professor Daoben Zhu, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

The issue contains a selection of communications, papers & reviews covering the field of organic optoelectronic materials including:

Highlight

• Photonic applications of one-dimensional organic single-crystalline nanostructures: optical waveguides and optically pumped lasers
  Qiu Hong Cui, Yong Sheng Zhao and Jiannian Yao, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4136-4140

Applications

• Charge transfer state in highly efficient polymer–fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells
  Claudia Piliego and Maria Antonietta Loi, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4141-4150

Feature Articles

• Open-shell polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
  Zhe Sun and Jishan Wu, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4151-4160
• Functional fullerenes for organic photovoltaics
  Chang-Zhi Li, Hin-Lap Yip and Alex K.-Y. Jen, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4161-4177
• Structures and properties of conjugated Donor–Acceptor copolymers for solar cell applications
  Zhi–Guo Zhang and Jizheng Wang, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4178-4187
• π-Extended TTF: a versatile molecule for organic electronics
  Fulvio G. Brunetti, Juan Luis López, Carmen Atienza and Nazario Martín, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4188-4205
• Solid-state light-emitting electrochemical cells based on ionic iridium(III) complexes
  Tao Hu, Lei He, Lian Duan and Yong Qiu, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4206-4215
• Prospects and challenges of organic/group IV nanomaterial solar cells
  Tao Song, Shuit-Tong Lee and Baoquan Sun, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4216-4232
• Phosphine oxide derivatives for organic light emitting diodes
  Soon Ok Jeon and Jun Yeob Lee, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4233-4243
• Polymer blends with semiconducting nanowires for organic electronics
  Sae Byeok Jo, Wi Hyoung Lee, Longzhen Qiu and Kilwon Cho, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4244-4260

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