Organic molecular materials and devices are one of the most important research areas of chemistry in the 21st century and thus have received extensive attentions.Basically,organic functional molecules based on π-conjugated systems can be easily modified to tune multi-level self-assembled structures with optimized optical and electronic properties via rational molecular design.Such features make them promising candidates for many applications.The chemistry and material society have witnessed the remarkable progress in the development of new organic semiconductors with high mobilities,organic photovoltaic materials,organic electroluminescent materials,molecular switches and so on.From the view of device fabrication process,small molecular functional materials possess advantages of high purity and low processing cost.Markedly,Chinese scientists have played an important role in prompting the research work in these topics.