Rafal M. Dziedzic

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report metallic cobalt pyrite (cobalt disulfide, CoS2) as one such high-activity candidate material and demonstrate that its specific morphology plays a crucial role in determining its overall catalytic efficacy.

TL;DR: For the first time, the use of bromo-carboranes in palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling for efficient B-N, B-O, and unprecedented B-CN bond formation is reported.

TL;DR: This "cage-walking" process provides a unique pathway to preferentially introduce functional groups at the B(2) vertex using B(9)-bromo-meta-carborane as the sole starting material through substrate control.

TL;DR: This work has shown that the utility of metal-catalyzed cross-coupling can be extended to several classes of polyhedral borane including neutral and anionic carboranes, metallaboranes, and carbon-free boranes and the ability to synthesize halogenated boron-rich clusters which can serve as electrophilic cross-Coupling partners with nucleophilic substrates in the presence of a metal catalyst.

TL;DR: Electrochemical characterization reveals that the CoS2 NWs enable large specific capacitance, and excellent long term cycling stability, which expands the opportunities for transition metal sulfide-based nanostructures in emerging energy storage applications.