Materials Chemistry Frontiers Blog

The latest  MaterChemFront issue is published online 

The front cover story, Cyanopyridone flanked the tetraphenylethylene to generate an efficient, three-dimensional small molecule non-fullerene electron acceptor is contributed by Anushri Rananaware, Akhil Gupta, Gajanan Kadam, Duong Duc La, Ante Bilic, Wanchun Xiang, Richard A. Evans and Sheshanath V. Bhosale. The inside cover features a story on Improved microwave absorption and electromagnetic interference shielding properties based on graphene–barium titanate and polyvinylidene fluoride with varying content by Ao-Ping Guo, Xiao-Juan Zhang, Jia-Kang Qu, Shan-Wen Wang, Jia-Qiang Zhu, Guang-Sheng Wang and Lin Guo.

Following review type articles are included in current issue:

Design and effective synthesis methods for high-performance polymer semiconductors in organic field-effect transistors
Longxian Shi, Yunlong Guo, Wenping Hu and Yunqi Liu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2017,1, 2423-2456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QM00169J

Designing hybrid architectures for advanced thermoelectric materials
Yun Zheng, Yubo Luo, Chengfeng Du, Beibei Zhu, Qinghua Liang, Huey Hoon Hng, Kedar Hippalgaonkar, Jianwei Xu and Qingyu Yan
Mater. Chem. Front., 2017,1, 2457-2473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QM00306D

Recent advances in AIEgen-based luminescent metal–organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks
Li Ma, Xiao Feng, Shan Wang and Bo Wang
Mater. Chem. Front., 2017,1, 2474-2486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QM00254H

Late transition metal catalyzed α-olefin polymerization and copolymerization with polar monomers
Lihua Guo, Wenjing Liu and Changle Chen
Mater. Chem. Front., 2017,1, 2487-2494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QM00321H

Understanding and suppressing side reactions in Li–air batteries
Ying Liu, Liping Wang, Lujie Cao, Chaoqun Shang, Zhenyu Wang, Hongen Wang, Liqing He, Jingyi Yang, Hua Cheng, Jingze Li and Zhouguang Lu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2017,1, 2495-2510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QM00353F