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Stabilization of Polyoxometalate Charge Carriers via Redox‐Driven Nanoconfinement in Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes (2022)
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Jordan, J. W., Cameron, J. M., Lowe, G. A., Rance, G. A., Fung, K. L. Y., Johnson, L. R., Walsh, D. A., Khlobystov, A. N., & Newton, G. N. (2022). Stabilization of Polyoxometalate Charge Carriers via Redox‐Driven Nanoconfinement in Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Angewandte Chemie, 134(8), Article e202115619. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202115619

We describe the preparation of hybrid redox materials based on polyoxomolybdates encapsulated within single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Polyoxomolybdates readily oxidize SWNTs under ambient conditions in solution, and here we study their charge-... Read More about Stabilization of Polyoxometalate Charge Carriers via Redox‐Driven Nanoconfinement in Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Magnetic nanoribbons with embedded cobalt grown inside single-walled carbon nanotubes (2021)
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Krichevsky, D. M., Shi, L., Baturin, V. S., Rybkovsky, D. V., Wu, Y., Fedotov, P. V., Obraztsova, E. D., Kapralov, P. O., Shilina, P. V., Fung, K., Stoppiello, C. T., Belotelov, V. I., Khlobystov, A., & Chernov, A. I. (2022). Magnetic nanoribbons with embedded cobalt grown inside single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale, 14(5), 1978-1989. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1nr06179h

Molecular magnetism and specifically magnetic molecules have recently gained plenty of attention as key elements for quantum technologies, information processing, and spintronics. Transition to the nanoscale and implementation of ordered structures w... Read More about Magnetic nanoribbons with embedded cobalt grown inside single-walled carbon nanotubes.

An Expanded 2D Fused Aromatic Network with 90-Ring Hexagons (2021)
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Riaño, A., Strutyński, K., Liu, M., Stoppiello, C. T., Lerma‐Berlanga, B., Saeki, A., Martí‐Gastaldo, C., Khlobystov, A. N., Valenti, G., Paolucci, F., Melle‐Franco, M., & Mateo-Alonso, A. (2022). An Expanded 2D Fused Aromatic Network with 90-Ring Hexagons. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61(2), Article e202113657. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202113657

Two-dimensional fused aromatic networks (2D FANs) have emerged as a highly versatile alternative to holey graphene. The synthesis of 2D FANs with increasingly larger lattice dimensions will enable new application perspectives. However, the synthesis... Read More about An Expanded 2D Fused Aromatic Network with 90-Ring Hexagons.

Front Cover: Palladium Nanoparticles Hardwired in Carbon Nanoreactors Enable Continually Increasing Electrocatalytic Activity During the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (ChemSusChem 22/2021) (2021)
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Aygün, M., Guillen‐Soler, M., Vila‐Fungueiriño, J. M., Kurtoglu, A., Chamberlain, T. W., Khlobystov, A. N., & Carmen Gimenez‐Lopez, M. (2021). Front Cover: Palladium Nanoparticles Hardwired in Carbon Nanoreactors Enable Continually Increasing Electrocatalytic Activity During the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (ChemSusChem 22/2021). ChemSusChem, 14(22), 4846-4846. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202102198

Counting molecules in nano test tubes: a method for determining the activation parameters of thermally driven reactions through direct imaging (2021)
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Fung, K. L. Y., Skowron, S. T., Allen, C. S., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2021). Counting molecules in nano test tubes: a method for determining the activation parameters of thermally driven reactions through direct imaging. Chemical Communications, 57(81), 10628-10631. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cc03827c

A methodology for measuring activation parameters of a thermally driven chemical reaction by direct imaging and counting reactant molecules has been developed. The method combines the use of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) as a nano test tube,... Read More about Counting molecules in nano test tubes: a method for determining the activation parameters of thermally driven reactions through direct imaging.

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.

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.

Blurring the Boundary between Homogenous and Heterogeneous Catalysis using Palladium Nanoclusters with Dynamic Surfaces (2021)
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Cano, I., Weilhard, A., Martin, C., Pinto, J., Lodge, R. W., Santos, A. R., Rance, G. A., Åhlgren, E. H., Jónsson, E., Yuan, J., Li, Z. Y., Licence, P., Khlobystov, A. N., & Fernandes, J. A. (2021). Blurring the Boundary between Homogenous and Heterogeneous Catalysis using Palladium Nanoclusters with Dynamic Surfaces. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 4965. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25263-6

Using a magnetron sputtering approach that allows size-controlled formation of nanoclusters, we have created palladium nanoclusters that combine the features of both heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts. Here we report the atomic structures and el... Read More about Blurring the Boundary between Homogenous and Heterogeneous Catalysis using Palladium Nanoclusters with Dynamic Surfaces.

Electrochemistry of redox-active molecules confined within narrow carbon nanotubes (2021)
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Jordan, J. W., Townsend, W. J. V., Johnson, L. R., Walsh, D. A., Newton, G. N., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2021). Electrochemistry of redox-active molecules confined within narrow carbon nanotubes. Chemical Society Reviews, 50(19), 10895-10916. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cs00478f

Confinement of molecules within nanocontainers can be a powerful tool for controlling the states of guest-molecules, tuning properties of host-nanocontainers and triggering the emergence of synergistic properties within the host–guest systems. Among... Read More about Electrochemistry of redox-active molecules confined within narrow carbon nanotubes.

Piecing Together Large Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Fullerenes: A Combined ChemTEM Imaging and MALDI-ToF Mass Spectrometry Approach (2021)
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Gover, R. K. E., Chamberlain, T. W., Sarre, P. J., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2021). Piecing Together Large Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Fullerenes: A Combined ChemTEM Imaging and MALDI-ToF Mass Spectrometry Approach. Frontiers in Chemistry, 9, Article 700562. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.700562

Motivated by their importance in chemistry, physics, astronomy and materials science, we investigate routes to the formation of large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules and the fullerene C60 from specific smaller PAH building blocks. The... Read More about Piecing Together Large Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Fullerenes: A Combined ChemTEM Imaging and MALDI-ToF Mass Spectrometry Approach.