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Palladium Nanoparticles Hardwired in Carbon Nanoreactors Enable Continually Increasing Electrocatalytic Activity During the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (2021)
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Aygün, M., Guillen-Soler, M., Manuel Vila-Fungueiriño, J., Kurtoglu, A., Chamberlain, T., Khlobystov, A. N., & del Carmen Gimenez Lopez, M. (2021). Palladium Nanoparticles Hardwired in Carbon Nanoreactors Enable Continually Increasing Electrocatalytic Activity During the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ChemSusChem, 14(22), 4973-4984. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202101236

Catalysts typically lose effectiveness during operation, with much effort invested in stabilising active metal centres to prolong their functional lifetime for as long as possible. In this study palladium nanoparticles (PdNP) supported inside hollow... Read More about Palladium Nanoparticles Hardwired in Carbon Nanoreactors Enable Continually Increasing Electrocatalytic Activity During the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.

A ring of grids: a giant spin-crossover cluster (2021)
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Shiga, T., Tachibana, M., Sagayama, H., Kumai, R., Newton, G. N., Oshio, H., & Nihei, M. (2021). A ring of grids: a giant spin-crossover cluster. Chemical Communications, 57(79), 10162-10165. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cc04346c

Mononuclear and icosanuclear spin-crossover complexes, [FeII(HL)2](BF4)2(1) and [FeII 20(L)24](BF4)16(2), were synthesized using an asymmetric multidentate ligand (HL).1has a bis-chelate structure with two protonated ligands, while2has a ring-shape s... Read More about A ring of grids: a giant spin-crossover cluster.

Stereochemistry and Twisted Crystals (2021)
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Killalea, C. E., & Amabilino, D. B. (2021). Stereochemistry and Twisted Crystals. Israel Journal of Chemistry, 61(9-10), 629-644. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijch.202100063

This review article discusses a link between stereochemistry and structural and morphological chirality. We present the remarkably frequent, but less often reported, growth of twisted crystals and discuss the reasons for their formation and ways to f... Read More about Stereochemistry and Twisted Crystals.

Integrated Multistep Photochemical and Thermal Continuous Flow Reactions: Production of Bicyclic Lactones with Kilogram Productivity (2021)
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Howie, R. A., Elliott, L. D., Kayal, S., Sun, X. Z., Hanson-Heine, M. W., Hunter, J., Clark, C. A., Love, A., Wiseall, C., Lee, D. S., Poliakoff, M., Booker Milburn, K. I., & George, M. W. (2021). Integrated Multistep Photochemical and Thermal Continuous Flow Reactions: Production of Bicyclic Lactones with Kilogram Productivity. Organic Process Research and Development, 25(9), 2052-2059. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.1c00089

Combining continuous photochemistry and flow reactions in high-temperature/high-pressure water has enabled us to integrate a multistep sequence into a single process with a reduction in reaction time to <10 min compared to >24 h in batch. At the same... Read More about Integrated Multistep Photochemical and Thermal Continuous Flow Reactions: Production of Bicyclic Lactones with Kilogram Productivity.

Synthesis of ultrathin rhenium disulfide nanoribbons using nano test tubes (2021)
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Norman, L. T., Biskupek, J., Rance, G. A., Stoppiello, C. T., Kaiser, U., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2022). Synthesis of ultrathin rhenium disulfide nanoribbons using nano test tubes. Nano Research, 15(2), 1282-1287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3650-2

The synthesis of ultrathin rhenium disulfide (ReS2) nanoribbons within single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) has been established. Dirhenium decacarbonyl complex is encapsulated into the SWNTs to provide a source of confined rhenium atoms, which rea... Read More about Synthesis of ultrathin rhenium disulfide nanoribbons using nano test tubes.

Continuous‐Flow Synthesis of Orange Emitting Sn(II)‐Doped CsBr Materials (2021)
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Das Adhikari, S., Masi, S., Echeverría‐Arrondo, C., Miralles‐Comins, S., Sánchez, R. S., Fernandes, J. A., Chirvony, V., Martínez‐Pastor, J. P., Sans, V., & Mora‐Seró, I. (2021). Continuous‐Flow Synthesis of Orange Emitting Sn(II)‐Doped CsBr Materials. Advanced Optical Materials, 9(21), Article 2101024. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202101024

An ongoing demand toward lead-free all-inorganic cesium metal halide perovskites has presented Sn(II) as an ideal substitute of Pb(II) for applications in optoelectronic devices. The major concern regarding Sn(II) is the instability due to the ambien... Read More about Continuous‐Flow Synthesis of Orange Emitting Sn(II)‐Doped CsBr Materials.

Experimental measurement and prediction of ionic liquid ionisation energies (2021)
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Seymour, J. M., Gousseva, E., Large, A. I., Clarke, C. J., Licence, P., Fogarty, R. M., Duncan, D. A., Ferrer, P., Venturini, F., Bennett, R. A., Palgrave, R. G., & Lovelock, K. R. J. (2021). Experimental measurement and prediction of ionic liquid ionisation energies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23(37), 20957-20973. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cp02441h

Ionic liquid (IL) valence electronic structure provides key descriptors for understanding and predicting IL properties. The ionisation energies of 60 ILs are measured and the most readily ionised valence state of each IL (the highest occupied molecul... Read More about Experimental measurement and prediction of ionic liquid ionisation energies.

Selective suppression of {112} anatase facets by fluorination for enhanced TiO2 particle size and phase stability at elevated temperatures (2021)
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Kohlrausch, E. C., Dos Reis, R., Lodge, R. W., Vicente, I., Brolo, A. G., Dupont, J., Alves Fernandes, J., & Santos, M. J. L. (2021). Selective suppression of {112} anatase facets by fluorination for enhanced TiO2 particle size and phase stability at elevated temperatures. Nanoscale Advances, 3(21), 6223-6230. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1na00528f

Generally, anatase is the most desirable TiO2 polymorphic phase for photovoltaic and photocatalytic applications due to its higher photoconductivity and lower recombination rates compared to the rutile phase. However, in applications where temperatur... Read More about Selective suppression of {112} anatase facets by fluorination for enhanced TiO2 particle size and phase stability at elevated temperatures.

Generation and Characterization of a Library of Novel Biologically Active Functional Surfactants (Surfmers) Using Combined High-Throughput Methods (2021)
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Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Contreas, L., Taresco, V., Howard, S. C., Dundas, A. A., Limo, M. J., Nisisako, T., Williams, P. M., Williams, P., Alexander, M. R., Wildman, R. D., Muir, B. W., & Irvine, D. J. (2021). Generation and Characterization of a Library of Novel Biologically Active Functional Surfactants (Surfmers) Using Combined High-Throughput Methods. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13(36), 43290-43300. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c08662

We report the first successful combination of three distinct high-throughput techniques to deliver the accelerated design, synthesis, and property screening of a library of novel, bio-instructive, polymeric, comb-graft surfactants. These three-dimens... Read More about Generation and Characterization of a Library of Novel Biologically Active Functional Surfactants (Surfmers) Using Combined High-Throughput Methods.