Special Issue Information

Owing to the excellent adjustable properties, and broad application across multiple fields, rare-earth and inorganic optical, electrical, and catalytic materials have garnered significant attention. Rare earth includes 17 kinds of elements, with a rich variety of ions and diverse coordination, providing a foundation for designing novel multifunctional materials with different structures and categories. The incorporation of rare earth into inorganic matrices (oxides, halides, alloys, and other compounds), materials with outstanding performance in terms of light conversion, energy storage, charge/ion transport, and catalytic reactions can be created. The development of such materials is driving progress in several key technological areas, ranging from lighting, displays, detecting and imaging to energy conversion/storage, catalysis, disease diagnosis/treatment, environmental purification, and advanced sensing.

This Special Issue aims to collect and highlight the latest breakthroughs, recent progress and future perspectives in rational design, efficient preparation, advanced characterization, and cross-disciplinary applications of rare earth and inorganic multifunctional materials. We hope to stimulate innovation in this field by delving into new structures, unique properties and phenomena, and typical mechanisms within materials, expanding their application boundaries in both traditional and emerging domains, and accelerating the development of next-generation high-performance materials and devices. The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to the following:
(1) Novel synthesis methods or postsynthetic strategies for rare-earth-doped inorganic functional materials;
(2) Rare earth and inorganic luminescent materials and devices (LED, detector, etc.);
(3) Rare earth and inorganic biomedical materials for bio-probe, biomarker, bio-imaging, disease diagnosis and treatment;
(4) Rare earth and inorganic catalysts for energy and environmental catalysis;
(5) Rare earth modified electrodes and electrolytes for high safety and stable batteries;
(6) Methods and theories of artificial intelligence for the development of rare earth and inorganic materials.

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