molecular electronics growing, and prospects of single-molecule electronics improving, there is an increasing need to understand the interactions and electronic structure at interfaces between molecular and nonmolecular phases1-3. The level of activity in new materials for organic light-emitting diodes, organic field-effect transistors, and organic solar cells; optical or transport characteriza...

The development of organic printed electronics has been expanding to a variety of applications and is expected to bring innovations to our future life. Along with this trend, high performance organic materials with cost-efficient fabrication processes and specific features such as thin, light weight, bendable, and low power consumption are required. A variety of organic materials have been inve...

TiO2 is exceptionally useful, but it remains a great challenge to develop a universal method to coat TiO2 nanoshells on different functional materials. We report a one-pot, low-temperature, and facile method that can rapidly form mesoporous TiO2 shells on various inorganic, organic, and inorganic-organic composite materials, including silica-based, metal, metal oxide, organic polymer, carbon-ba...

Following to the recent development of the organic-templated growth of materials, new types of photonic hybrid composite materials have emerged whose structure and function are organized hierarchically. Ordered, periodic mesoscopic materials allow the construction of composites with many types of guest, such as organic molecules or polymers. These host–guest materials combine the high stability...

Although the famous brittle characteristics of molecular crystals are unfavorable when they used as flexible smart materials (FSMs), an increasing number organic crystal-based FSMs have been reported recently. This breaks perception their stiff and properties promises a bright future for basic research practical applications. Crystalline present considerable advantages over polymer under certai...