To physicists and chemists, color means light-emission, absorption, spectrum, and coloration. Near-Infrared Organic Materials and Emerging Applications presents knowledge and applications of invisible "colored" organic materials. Near-infrared (NIR) materials are defined as substances that interact with NIR light, namely, absorption and reflection,

Zhi Yuan (Wayne) Wang, Ph.D., is a professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and holds a Canada Research Chair in Emerging Organic Materials. Professor Wang's research interests focus on the study and development of fundamentally important and practically useful organic materials, including nonlinear optical chromophores and polymers, near-infrared chromogenic materials, chiroptical materials, and photocurable polymers.

Introduction. Molecular design and energy gap tuning. Near-infrared organic compounds. Near-infrared absorbing polymers. Emerging applications of near-infrared organic materials. Index.