Showing papers in "Chemical Communications in 2015"

TL;DR: In dye-sensitized solar cells co-photosensitized with an alkoxysilyl-anchor dye ADEKA-1 and a carboxy-anchors organic dye LEG4, LEG4 was revealed to work collaboratively by enhancing the electron injection from the light-excited dyes to the TiO2 electrodes.

TL;DR: The reaction kinetics is discussed considering its elegance and importance enlightening the long known Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism and Eley-Rideal mechanism at length, along with a few other mechanisms recently reported.

TL;DR: The four most widely considered TMD materials: MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2 are investigated hereon, with different efficiencies among the four materials.

TL;DR: The methylammonium cation in [CH3NH3]PbI3 demonstrates increasing positional disorder on heating from 100 K to 352 K and migrates towards the cavity centre with increasing temperature.

TL;DR: A review on the synthesis of this scaffold employing different strategies such as condensation, multicomponent reactions, oxidative coupling, tandem reactions, aminooxygenation, and hydroamination reactions is reported.

TL;DR: This approach is applied to a sample of organic molecular crystals with known bending, shearing and brittle behaviour, to illustrate its use in rationalising their mechanical behaviour at a molecular level.

TL;DR: The one-step and facile synthesis of multi-enzyme-containing metal-organic framework (MOF) nanocrystals in aqueous solution at 25 °C was reported in this study.

TL;DR: The intercalation mechanism of zinc ions into 2 × 2 tunnels of an α-MnO2 cathode for rechargeable zinc batteries was revealed and produces buserite, a layered compound with an interlayer spacing of 11 Å as a discharge product.

TL;DR: This review highlights recent advances in the ring-opening copolymerization catalysis, using epoxides coupled with anhydrides or CO2, to produce polyesters and polycarbonates, and the structures and performances of various homogeneous catalysts are presented for the epoxide-anhydride copolymization.

TL;DR: A new kind of Al-ion battery with carbon paper as the cathode, high-purity Al foil as the anode and ionic liquid as the electrolyte is proposed in this work.

TL;DR: A critical review of the emerging field of MOFs for photon collection and subsequent energy transfer is presented, including examples involving MOF-quantum dots and molecular chromophores.

TL;DR: A facile one-pot impregnation-thermal reduction strategy was employed to fabricate sandwich-like graphene-g-C3N4 (GCN) nanocomposites using urea and graphene oxide as precursors, which demonstrated high visible-light photoactivity towards CO2 reduction under ambient conditions.

TL;DR: The previously perceived limitations of organic compounds as phosphorescent materials have been overcome and several molecules have been designed using old and new concepts, thereby gaining access to a significant number of materials with efficient phosphorescent features.

TL;DR: A novel nitrogen-doped Fe/Fe3C@graphitic layer/carbon nanotube hybrid derived from MOFs has been first fabricated by a facile approach and exhibited outstanding bifunctional electrocatalytic activity for ORR and OER.

TL;DR: Recent progress made in luminescent MOF thermometers are summarized, with particular emphasis on the dual-emitting MOFs that effectively illustrate the self-referencing temperature measurement based on the intensity ratios of two separate transitions.

TL;DR: The retrograde solubility of various hybrid perovskites through the correct choice of solvent(s) is shown and their solubilities curves are reported.

TL;DR: An amorphous CoSe film electrodeposited on a Ti mesh (a-CoSe/Ti) is demonstrated to exhibit high electrocatalytic activity and stability for both reactions in 1.0 M KOH.

TL;DR: This feature article summarizes the latest developments in the design, preparation and evaluation of LDH materials toward electrochemical energy storage and conversion.

TL;DR: Ti-substituted NH2-Uio-66(Zr/Ti) prepared by using a post-synthetic exchange (PSE) method showed enhanced photocatalytic performance for both CO2 reduction and hydrogen evolution under visible light.

TL;DR: A series of nine Ce(iv)-based metal organic frameworks with the UiO-66 structure containing linker molecules of different sizes and functionalities were obtained under mild synthesis conditions and short reaction times.

TL;DR: Postsynthetic exchange of Ti(IV) into a Zr(IV)-based MOF enabled photocatalytic CO2 reduction to HCOOH under visible light irradiation with the aid of BNAH and TEOA.

TL;DR: A highly selective and sensitive fluorescent sensor for Cd(2+) in aqueous solution based on a lanthanide post-functionalized metal-organic framework was developed.

TL;DR: The differing surface modification techniques available to the synthetic chemist will be discussed, with a focus on the effect of surface modification of MOFs on their fundamental properties and application in adsorption, catalysis, drug delivery and other areas.

TL;DR: This feature article summarises the recent advances in LDH-based nanocomposites, focusing on their synthesis, structure, and application in drug delivery, bio-imaging, water purification, supercapacitors, and catalysis.

TL;DR: Recent progress in combining visible light activation with asymmetric catalysis, processes that are either mediated by photoinduced electron or energy transfer, holds promise for the development of economical and environmentally friendly methods for the asymmetric synthesis of chiral compounds.

TL;DR: Calcein encapsulation in the Zr-based MOF UiO-66 is reported, followed by amorphization of the framework by ball-milling, and controlled release of calcein over more than 30 days is shown.

TL;DR: A thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitter (DMAC-TRZ) was reported either as the emitting dopant in a host or as the non-doped (neat) emitting layer to achieve high EL EQEs of up to 26.5% and 20% in OLEDs, respectively.

TL;DR: Water-soluble, 3 nm uniform-sized graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with red emission prepared by electrochemical exfoliation of graphite in K2S2O8 solution show a great potential as biological labels for cellular imaging.

TL;DR: Design of novel bifunctional amine-thiourea organocatalysts based upon the synergistic activation strategy via multiple hydrogen bonds and their applications in asymmetric C-C, C-N, and C-S bond-forming reactions under mild conditions are described.

TL;DR: New findings indicate that biotin orBiotin-conjugates could be favorably assimilated by tumor cells that over-express biotin-selective transporters.