Journal of Materials Chemistry Hot Papers:
Optical materials
Journal of Materials Chemistry hot papers featured in this optical materials section have been rated as "outstanding" by expert reviewers in the field. Follow each link for an article about the paper or an interview with the authors.

Hot paper: Silicon-containing dendritic tris-cyclometalated Ir(III) complex and its electrophosphorescence in a polymer host
08 December 2006
Soo Young Park and colleagues have made a highly-phosporescent cyclometalated Ir(III) dendritic complex

Hot paper: Fabrication of hybrid chromophoric amphiphile/silica nanocomposite-based light emitting devices
10 November 2006
Chain-Shu Hsu and colleagues have made new hybrid LEDs by sol-gel co-assembly.

Hot paper: Highly Efficient White-Electrophosphorescent Devices Based on Polyfluorene Copolymers
10 October 2006
Ching-Fong Shu and colleagues have prepared white electrophosphorescent devices from polyfluorene copolymers

Hot paper: Nonlinear optical properties of a bisboronate chromophore with potential electric field induced NLO switch
15 June 2006
Pascal Lacroix and colleagues have synthesised a bisboronate chromophore which can act as a molecular switch

Hot paper: Synthesis of Novel Polyelectrolytes and Their Application as Hole-Transport Layers in Polymeric Light-Emitting Diodes
11 May 2006
Yong Cao and colleagues have synthesised new polyelectrolytes which can be used as hole-transporting layers in polymeric light-emitting diodes.

Hot paper: Highly efficient green light emitting polymer
26 January 2006
Lixiang Wang and colleagues have designed and synthesised highly efficient green light emitting polymers.
Recent hot articles, organised by subject
Including reviews on electrochromic materials, non-linear optics and fluorescent sensors
