Synthetic Metals publishes research in organic, carbon based and hybrid electronic materials. This is a varied, exciting and rapidly developing field covering plastic semiconductors and solar cells, organic light-emitting diodes, graphene and hybrid perovskite materials. To illustrate this range of materials and applications, we have selected six recent papers and are making them available free of charge via the links below.
Developments in materials and their processing lie at the heart of solar cells. In "Recently developed high-efficiency organic photoactive materials for printable photovoltaic cells: a mini review" Hilary Vogelbaum and Geneviève Sauvé riecent development in organic materials for printable solar cells. Chihaya Adachi and his team explore how the dielectric properties of the material used affect how solar cells work. Marcin Ziólek explore alternative hole transporting materials for hybrid perovskite solar cells.
Synthetic Metals is a field where understanding and practical applications are close linked and advance together. The operation of devices such as organic light-emitting diodes and solar cells depends crucially on the energy levels of the materials from which the device is made. The determination of these energy levels by electrochemical means is discussed by Juliusz Sworakowski in "How accurate are energies of HOMO and LUMO levels in small-molecule organic semiconductors determined from cyclic voltammetry or optical spectroscopy?".
Synthetic Metals is currently accepting submissions for a special issue on electrochemistry of organic semiconductors, [Deadline 31/7/18], to submit go to https://ees.elsevier.com/synmet/default.asp and select article type VSI: org mater. electrochem.
Finally thermoelectric and biomedical applications of carbon-based materials such as nanotubes and graphene are explored by Mariano Campoy-Quiles and his team and the teams of Alicja Bachmatiuk and Mark Rummell. Organic and hybrid thermoelectrics are also the topic of a recent special issue edited by Naoki Toshima, Tsuyoshi Kawai and Takehiko Ishiguro. Together this collection of recent advances shows the remarkable properties and applications of organic and hybrid semiconductors.
A device comprising a 2D hybrid metal halide layered with a ferromagnetic metal can generate terahertz radiation from an an ultrafast spin current.
Innovative way to reduce the band gap in cheaper and non-toxic tin-based oxide semiconductors