Research Highlight

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...

Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics, which uses high-resolution hybrid mass spectrometers such as the quadrupole-orbitrap mass spectrometer, can yield tens of thousands of tandem mass (MS/MS) spectra of high resolution during a routine b...

Acinetobactin is a major siderophore utilized by the human pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. The rapid acquisition of drug resistance by A. baumannii has garnered concern globally. Herein, acinetobactin and systematically generated analogues...

Development of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts with reduced precious metal content while enhancing catalytic performance has been of pivotal importance in cost-effective design of acid polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolyze...

Filling the lowest quantum state of the conduction band (CB) of colloidal nanocrystals with a single electron, which is analogous to the filling the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) in a molecule with a single electron, has attract...

We demonstrate the facile microwave-assisted synthesis of a porous organic framework 1 and the sulfonated solid (1S) through postsubstitution. Remarkably, the conductivity of 1S showed an approximately 300-fold enhancement at 30 °C as compar...

Reported here is a new theranostic agent, 1, which consists of a Gd3+-texaphyrin core conjugated to a doxorubicin prodrug via a disulfide bond. Conjugate 1 was designed to undergo cleavage in the presence of glutathione (GSH), a species typi...

Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a unique polymer material with enormous applicability in many industrial and scientific fields. Here, its use as macromolecular crowder to mimic the cellular environment in vitro is the focus of the present study...

Nanostructured copper sulfides, promising earth-abundant p-type semiconductors, have found applications in a wide range of fields due to their versatility, tunable low bandgap, and environmental sustainability. The synthesis of hexagonal Cu7...

A highly efficient fullerene-free polymer solar cell (PSC) based on PDCBT, a polythiophene derivative substituted with alkoxycarbonyl, has achieved an impressive power conversion efficiency of 10.16%, which is the best result in PSCs based o...

Low-voltage organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) inverters based on pentacene and N,N′-ditridecylperylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI-C13) were fabricated on HfTiOx gate diel...

Electron occupation in the lowest quantized state of the conduction band (1Se) in the colloidal quantum dot leads to the intraband transition in steady-state (1Se-1Pe). The intraband transition, solely originating from the quantum confinemen...

Light has long been used to detect the chirality of molecules but high-order harmonic generation now provides access to these chiral interactions on ultrafast timescales. http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v11/n8/full/nphys3395.html

Molecular electronics has received significant attention in the last decades. To hone performance of devices, eliminating structural defects in molecular components inside devices is usually needed. We herein demonstrate this problem can be ...

This study demonstrates high-performance, ternary-blend polymer solar cells by modifying a binary blend bulk heterojunction (PPDT2FBT:PC71BM) with the addition of a ternary component, PPDT2CNBT. PPDT2CNBT is designed to have complementary ab...

A series of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) M2(dobpdc) (M=Mn, Co, Ni, Zn; H4dobpdc=4,4′-dihydroxy-1,1′-biphenyl-3,3′-dicarboxylic acid), with a highly dense arrangement of open metal sites along hexagonal channels were prepared by microwave-...

We report here a tumor-targeting masked phototherapeutic agent 1 (PT-1). This system contains SN-38—a prodrug of the topoisomerase I inhibitor irinotecan. Topoisomerase I is a vital enzyme that controls DNA topology during replication, trans...

Fullerenes, cage-structured carbon allotropes, have been the subject of extensive research as new materials for diverse purposes. Yet, their formation process is still not clearly understood at the molecular level. In this study, we performe...