Zhi Chen

TL;DR: Using an electrochemical exfoliation approach with organic cations as the intercalants, monolayer 1T-VSe2 flakes are successfully obtained from the bulk crystal at high yield and density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that such effect can be minimized by physisorbed oxygen molecules or covalently bound thiol molecules.

TL;DR: Scanning tunneling microscopy is employed to investigate the homocoupling reaction of linear, terminal alkyne-functionalized polyphenylene building-blocks on noble metal surfaces under ultrahigh vacuum to improve chemoselectivity of the linking process permitting the controlled synthesis of extended-graphdiyne wires with lengths reaching 30 nm.

TL;DR: The first porous 3D [Ln-Fe] heterometal-organic frameworks incorporating high-spin Fe(ii) ions were structurally characterized with fascinating 1D channels and higher thermal stability.

TL;DR: The magnetic studies revealed that the ferromagnetic coupling existed between adjacent lanthanide ions in 1 and 2, and only 2 displays slow magnetic relaxation behavior with tau(0) = 2.4 x 10(-8) s and DeltaE/k(B) = 44.2 K.

TL;DR: In this article, six novel CdII-based metal-organic frameworks with a flexible ligand 1,5-bis(5-tetrazolo)-3-oxapentane) (H2btz) were successfully synthesized under hydrothermal reactions and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.