Synthesis of organic and inorganic mechanoluminescent compounds

A brief discussion of luminescent and mechanoluminescent materials has been provided in this chapter. It includes a study of different synthetic methodologies reported in the literature for luminescent and mechanoluminescent inorganic and organic materials. It also relates the effect of doping, vacancy concentration, host lattices, and symmetry of crystal structure on the luminescent phenomenon of materials. The progress in the field of mechanoluminescence materials has been highlighted in this study by taking various examples of inorganic and organic materials acting as potential mechanoluminescent materials. This study demonstrates the importance of inorganic and organic repeatable mechanoluminescent materials in real-time applications as optoelectronic devices.