Graphdiyne is a new carbon allotrope comprising sp‐ and sp2‐hybridized carbon atoms arranged in a 2D layered structure. In this contribution, 2D graphdiyne is demonstrated to exhibit a strong light–matter interaction with high stability to achieve a broadband Kerr nonlinear optical response, which is useful for nonreciprocal light propagation in passive photonic diodes. Furthermore, advantage of the unique Kerr nonlinearity of 2D graphdiyne is taken and a nonreciprocal light propagation device is proposed based on the novel similarity comparison method. Graphdiyne has demonstrated a large nonlinear refractive index in the order of ≈10−5 cm2 W−1, comparing favorably to that of graphene. Based on the strong Kerr nonlinearity of 2D graphdiyne, a nonlinear photonic diode that breaks time‐reversal symmetry is demonstrated to realize the unidirectional excitation of Kerr nonlinearity, which can be regarded as a significant demonstration of a graphdiyne‐based prototypical application in nonlinear photonics and might suggest an important step toward versatile graphdiyne‐based advanced passive photonics devices in the future.

Halide perovskites have emerged as a type of extremely promising material for their diverse chemical and electronic structures along with their brilliant optoelectronic properties. The introduction of chirality into perovskite scaffolds, generating a novel concept of chiral perovskite materials, offers an immense step forward toward the development of smart optoelectronic and spintronic materials and devices. The present Review summarizes recent advances in such an emerging field regarding the design and construction of chiral perovskite materials, along with their optoelectronic performances. In addition, an outlook of future challenges as well as the potential significance of the chiral perovskite family on the optical communication is proposed.

A porphyrinic metal-organic framework (porph-MOF)-based composite photocatalyst with enhanced visible-light-driven photocatalytic performance is successfully constructed involving a bridging linker 4-PySH and TiO2nanoparticles.

Graphdiyne and UIO-66-NH2 form a framework structure as a drug carrier and apply to tumor therapy.

How to graft co-sensitizers with different strengths such as LP-2 and N719 onto TiO2 surfaces for enhancing the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) has been investigated in detail.