An increase or modification of structural order in the vicinity of a solid substrate is known for
a wide range of materials. For molecular materials crystallizing on a solid surface it has been …

Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …

Tailoring the polymer–metal interface is crucial for advanced material design. Vacuum
deposition methods for metal layer coating are widely used in industry and research. They …

Lithium batteries are becoming increasingly vital thanks to electric vehicles and large‐scale
energy storage. Carbon materials have been applied in battery cathode, anode, electrolyte …

The reproducible low-cost fabrication of functional metal–polymer nanocomposites with
tailored optoelectronic properties for advanced applications remains a major challenge in …

Highly crystalline thin films of organic semiconductors offer great potential for fundamental
material studies as well as for realizing high‐performance, low‐cost flexible electronics. The …

The efficiency of perovskite-based solar cells has increased dramatically over the past
decade to as high as 25%, making them very attractive for commercial use. Vapor deposition …

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have considerably expanded the field of materials science
in the past decade. Even more recently, various 2D materials have been assembled into …

The nano-to microscale structures at the interface between materials can define the
macroscopic material properties. These structures are extremely difficult to investigate for …

In epitaxially strained ferroelectric thin films and superlattices, the ferroelectric transition
temperature can lie above the growth temperature. Ferroelectric polarization and domains …