Dongsun Choi(박사과정) / Bitna Yonn(석사과정) CdxHg1-xSe alloy nanocrystals are obtained from CdSe semiconductor nanocrystals via cation exchange. By varying the composition during the exchange process, the CdxHg1-xSe alloy ...

The elucidation of the cause of Alzheimer’s disease remains one of the greatest questions in neurodegenerative research. The lack of highly reliable low-cost sensors to study the structural changes in key proteins during the progres-sion of ...

Proton dissociation (PD) reactions of weak acids and proton transfer (PT) processes in aqueous solution are strongly influenced by ions. However, a detailed molecular picture that describes how ions affect the rates for PD and PT processes i...

As potential solid electrolytes in fuel cells, porous organic polymers show compelling proton conductivities (up to ∼10−2 S cm−1), but even higher performance is required for real applications. In this work, we prepared a biphenyl-based orga...

Quantum spectroscopy and imaging with undetected idler photons have been demonstrated by measuring one-photon interference between the corresponding entangled signal fields from two spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) crystals. In ...

Amyloid fibrils have recently been highlighted for their diverse applications as functional nanomaterials in modern chemistry. However, tight control to obtain a targeted fibril length with low heterogeneity has not been achieved because of ...

Cryptocyanine-based probes exhibit highly efficient photothermal conversion and represent a new class of photothermal agents for use in photothermal therapy (PTT). With the thermal susceptibility of mitochondria in mind, we have prepared a m...

The development of a microscopy technique that enables observation of the interactions between six types of organelle, in 3D and over time, holds promise for improving our understanding of intracellular processes. See Letter p.162 http...

A series of semi-crystalline, wide band gap (WBG) photovoltaic polymers were synthesized with varying number and topology of fluorine substituents. To decrease intramolecular charge transfer and to modulate the resulting band gap of D–A type...

A wide-bandgap polymer, (poly[(2,6-(4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)-benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene))-alt-(2,5-(methyl thiophene carboxylate))]) (3MT-Th), is synthesized to obtain a complementary broad range absorption when harmonized ...

Nanoframe electrocatalysts have attracted a great interest due to their inherently high active surface area per a given mass. Although recent progress has enabled the preparation of single nanoframe structures with a variety of morphologies,...

Triboelectric charging involves frictional contact of two different materials, and their contact electrification usually relies on polarity difference in the triboelectric series. This limits the choices of materials for triboelectric contac...

A major challenge in photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT) is avoiding PDT-induced hypoxia, which can lead to cancer recurrence and progression through activation of various angiogenic factors and significantly reduce treatment outcomes. Reporte...

The vibrational frequency of a chosen normal mode is one of the most accurately measurable spectroscopic properties of molecules in condensed phases. Accordingly, infrared absorption and Raman scattering spectroscopy have provided valuab...

New small molecules having modified acceptor strength and π-conjugation length and containing dicyanovinylene (DCV) and tricyanovinylene (TCV) as a strongly electron-accepting unit with indacenodithiophene, IDT(DCV)2, IDT(TCV)2, and IDTT(TCV...

This paper shows that tailorable polymeric scaffolds on a molecular scale could be achieved through the ring opening reaction of a three-membered N-heterocyclic compound, aziridine. Aziridine is incorporated into an elastomeric polymer backb...

Cation-specific ion pairing dynamics between M+ (M=Ag or Cu) and SCN−in N,N-dimethylthioformamide (DMTF) are studied by vibrationally probing the nitrile (CN) stretching vibration. SCN− ion, which is an ambidentate ligand, readily associates...

Lithium cation is the charge carrier in lithium-ion battery. Electrolyte solution in lithium-ion battery is usually based on mixed solvents consisting of polar carbonates with different aliphatic chains. Despite various experimental evidence...

Two p-type conjugated polymers with disparate optical and electronic properties, PB3T and PB2T, were developed and applied in fullerene-free polymer solar cells (PSCs). The photovoltaic performance of the PB3T-based PSC device processed by a...