Synthetic Metals publishes research on the physics, chemistry and applications of organic and carbon electronic materials such as electronic polymers and electronic molecular materials including novel carbon architectures. The journal aims to advance the field of materials publishing articles which significant in the following areas:

    conducting and semiconducting polymers and molecular materials
    fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, related novel carbon architectures and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)
    supramolecular conjugated architectures
    nanoscale electronic molecular and electronic polymer materials
    organic charge-transfer compounds and metal chain compounds
    functional pi-conjugated systems
    organic-inorganic electroactive hybrids including perovksites
    molecular- and polymer-based magnets and ferroelectrics

The journal publishes original research papers, short communications and reviews. Original research papers and short communications should present a significant advance in the understanding or application of these materials and/ or devices made from them. Experimental, theoretical and application papers on the chemistry, physics and engineering of these materials and their electrical, photonic and magnetic properties are encouraged for submission. Papers on electronic, optoelectronic, electroluminescent, lasing, solar cell, sensor, actuator, biological and other potential applications of these materials are also welcome.

Special Issue on Advances in Blue Organic Electroluminescence
Submission Date: 2024-07-31

Guest editors:

Prof. Russell Holmes
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Email: rholmes@umn.edu

Prof. Youngmin You
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Email: odds2@yonsei.ac.kr

Special issue information:

While organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) continue to see broad application in displays, there remains a pressing need to develop a blue-emitting sub-pixel capable of simultaneously meeting the demands for efficiency, operational lifetime, and color purity. This issue is of Synthetic Metals is devoted to reports relating to blue organic electroluminescence, with a broad scope covering molecular design and synthesis, device design and characterization, and related spectroscopy, for emitters for emitters of various states, including the singlet state (fluorescence including triplet-harvested fluorescence via triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)), the triplet state (phosphorescence), and the doublet state (radical emission).

Manuscript submission information:

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024
Target Publication Date: December 1, 2024

You are invited to submit your manuscript before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact the guest editors, their contact information is listed above. 

The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript, and select the Article Type of “VSI: Advances in Blue OLEDs” when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission site could be found on the Journal Homepage here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/synthetic-metals

All the submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed in accordance with journal policies. Upon its editorial acceptance, your article will go into production immediately. It will be published in the latest regular issue, while be presented on the specific Special Issue webpage simultaneously. In regular issues, Special Issue articles will be clearly marked and branded.