Putting Photons to Work—Progress in Photomechanical Materials and Applications

MRS Advances is accepting full-paper submissions on Electronic Devices and Materials topics related to the symposium topic Putting Photons to Work—Progress in Photomechanical Materials and Applications from the 2020 MRS Spring/Fall Meeting. Submissions, the review process, and the final decision are not contingent on presentation at the meeting itself. MRS Advances publishes short papers that provide a “snapshot” of an advance within the field of materials research. Such work may include important early indications from a research project that has not yet reached a conclusion, or related results that are significant but not central to the goal of the project. The scientific methods and logic should be rigorous, technically sound, and of interest to other specialists in the area of research. Of particular interest are topics in Putting Photons to Work—Progress in Photomechanical Materials and Applications: • Basic concepts in light conversion to motion–Photothermal, photochemical, electron-hole and spin dynamics • Materials–Inorganic semiconductors • Materials–Photothermal polymers • Materials–Photochemical polymers • Materials–Photothermal liquid crystal elastomers • Materials–Photochemical liquid crystal elastomers • Materials–Photothermal and photochemical effects in gels • Materials–Irreversible photochemical molecular crystals • Materials–Reversible photochemical molecular crystals • Materials–Organic-organic and inorganic-organic composites • Applications–Light induced translational motion and swimmers • Applications–Light controlled manipulation of objects