The award of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 to Professors Alan Heeger, Alan
MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa for their discovery that “doped” polyacetylene can …

The demonstration of the first laser, made with ruby in 1960, 1 has led to a revolution in
science and technology. Lasers have transformed spectroscopy giving previously …

Carbon dots (CDs) are a new solution-processable laser material. They offer advantages of
non-toxicity, low cost, and high stability, making them attractive for the sustainable …

Organic semiconductors are carbon-based materials that combine optoelectronic properties
with simple fabrication and the scope for tuning by changing their chemical structure,–. They …

Reducing the size of lasers to microscale dimensions enables new technologies that are
specifically tailored for operation in confined spaces ranging from ultra-high-speed …

The past decade has witnessed tremendous research efforts devoted to two-dimensional
(2D) materials and great progress made in both their fundamental studies and technique …

Organic solid‐state lasers are reviewed, with a special emphasis on works published during
the last decade. Referring originally to dyes in solid‐state polymeric matrices, organic lasers …

Societal needs for greater security require dramatic improvements in the sensitivity of
chemical and biological sensors. To meet this challenge, increasing emphasis in analytical …

Polyfluorenes have emerged as versatile semiconducting materials with applications in
various polymer optoelectronic devices, such as light-emitting devices, lasers, solar cells …

Conjugated polymers have chemically tuneable opto-electronic properties and are easily
processed, making them attractive materials for photonics applications,. Conjugated polymer …