Tobin Marks' 75th birthday. A celebration of a career devoted to materials chemistry

In this issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry C researchers celebrate Professor Tobin J. Marks’ 75th birthday and pay tribute to a career spanning over five decades, devoted in large part to pioneering research in unconventional opto-electronic materials. The quantity and quality of Tobin’s contribution in this field, accounting for more than 1000 publications and more than 100 US patents, has impacted society and will continue to define this research and technology area in the future. His talents in materials design, synthetic strategies, materials processing and integration, device engineering, and prototyping have enabled ground-breaking discoveries in diverse opto-electronic materials classes and devices, in the areas of organic electro-optics, organic transistors, organic light-emitting diodes, and organic solar cells.