title: Advances in Organic Near-Infrared Materials and Emerging Applications.
abstract: Much progress has been made in the field of research on organic near-infrared materials for potential applications in photonics, communications, energy, and biophotonics. This account mainly describes our research work on organic near-infrared materials; in particular, donor-acceptor small molecules, organometallics, and donor-acceptor polymers with the bandgaps less than 1.2 eV. The molecular designs, structure-property relationships, unique near-infrared absorption, emission and color/wavelength-changing properties, and some emerging applications are discussed.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Ji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Wenqiang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Qiao
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada.
authors.forename: Zhi Yuan
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: donor-acceptor systems; near-infrared; organic compounds; organometallics; polymers