Focused review on applications of chalcone based compounds in material science

Chalcones are a class of compounds which are naturally occurring and can be synthetically accessed as well. Due to their versatile properties and nature, they are not limited to pharmaceutical applications but then they extend their potential in other various fields of chemistry including material science. As the presence of this core has been very much prominent in different areas of material chemistry, herein, this review highlights the application of chalcones and their derivatives in the field of non-linear optics, polymer, and corrosion inhibiton. The presence of α–β unsaturated carbonyl group enables chalcone moiety to function efficiently as corrosion inhibitors. In addition, the carbonyl group being in conjugation with the donor and acceptor groups have made the chalcone moiety to exhibit significant Non-Linear optical properties (NLO) as well. Chalcones based polymers have applications in material science due to their properties such as optical, mechanical and thermal characteristics, making them an important class of compounds. Hence this review provides the literature on these three applications thus affording ideas to design the new molecules containing chalcones as the main core.