Showing papers in "Chemical Communications in 2017"

TL;DR: This review looks beyond MAPI to other ns2 solar absorbers, with the aim of identifying those materials likely to achieve high efficiencies, and discusses the ideal properties essential to produce highly efficient solar cells.

TL;DR: This feature article summarises the current state of the art in stereospecific transformations of both secondary and tertiary boronic esters into other functionalities and groups, whilst considering critically the transformations that are currently unattainable and would represent future advances to the field.

TL;DR: A Zn-doped Ni3S2 nanosheet array on Ni foam is developed as a high-performance and durable electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at alkaline pH.

TL;DR: A Mn-doped Ni2P nanosheet array on nickel foam (Mn-Ni2P/NF) is reported as a high-efficiency electrocatalyst for the HER in alkaline solutions and offers a promising catalyst material for water-splitting devices for large-scale production of hydrogen fuels.

TL;DR: The results show that modification with a single amino acid could more than ten-fold improve the apparent affinity (KM) of the Fe3O4 nanozyme for the substrate H2O2 and enhanced its catalytic efficiency up to twenty fold.

TL;DR: The excellent UOR performance is found to be partially due to the high active site density of the two-dimensional MOF, and largely because of the high oxidation state of the nickel species.

TL;DR: The evidence for long range surface forces in ionic liquids is examined, key outstanding questions are identified, and possible mechanisms underlying the origin of these long range forces are explored.

TL;DR: This review reports the most recent and tutorial examples of molecules that are weakly or non-phosphorescent in deaerated fluid solution and whose room temperature phosphorescence is switched on upon aggregation.

TL;DR: A monomer-mediated in situ growth strategy for the controllable construction of porous nanospheres with a magnetic core and a tunable COF shell that exhibits high stability and excellent performance for the removal of a typical class of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, bisphenol chemicals, in aqueous solution.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that flat Ti3C2Tx nanosheets encapsulated within spray-dried droplets can be scrolled, bent, and folded into 3D crumpled structures and was observed to be reversible upon rehydration.

TL;DR: This is the first report to confirm the charge/discharge behaviours of vanadium phosphate electrodes in 4 V-class K cells.

TL;DR: Fenton's reagent was used to isolate microplastics from organic-rich wastewater, enabling its use as a pre-treatment method for focal plane array-based micro-FT-IR imaging and offers a considerable reduction in sample preparation times.

TL;DR: The use of different methods to quantify and explore the steric impact of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands are presented, including the percent buried volume (%Vbur) and steric maps, which provide a graphical representation of the sterIC profile of a ligand using colour-coded contour maps.

TL;DR: A new colloidal synthesis is reported that replaces the conventionally used oleic acid with an alkyl phosphinic acid to grow high-quality, phase-stable cubic perovskite CsPbI3 nanocrystals.

TL;DR: Reversible and topotactic potassium intercalation of P2- and P3-KxCoO2 electrodes is studied in non-aqueous K cells in the voltage range 2.0-3.9 V accompanied by reversible phase transitions including potassium/vacancy orderings.

TL;DR: Novel K3V2(PO4)3 and three-dimensional conductive network K3M3/C nanocomposites are successfully fabricated and further evaluated as cathode materials for potassium-ion batteries for the first time.

TL;DR: A new heteropore COF which consists of two different kinds of micropores with unprecedented shapes and exhibits an extremely high volatile iodine uptake by encapsulating iodine in the inner cavities and porous shells of the microspheres is reported.

TL;DR: Recent strategies developed in the group for the synthesis of hollow bimetallic nanomaterials by galvanic replacement that enable a further level of control over surface morphologies and composition are discussed and may inspire the development of sophisticated and controlled nanmaterials at relatively larger scales for catalytic applications.

TL;DR: Recent developments in thermocell research are overviewed, including the development of new redox couples, the optimisation of electrolytes for improved power output and high-temperature operation, the design of high surface area electrodes for increased current density and device flexibility, and the Optimisation of cell design to further enhance performance.

TL;DR: SnS2 nanoparticles anchored onto reduced graphene oxide are produced via a chemical route and demonstrate an impressive capacity of 350 mA h g-1, exceeding the capacity of graphite.

TL;DR: A fast and facile route for the optimization of covalent triazine frameworks (CTFs) for photocatalytic hydrogen production is presented and shows an average hydrogen evolution rate of 1072 μmol h-1 g-1 under visible light.

TL;DR: This feature article will discuss the breakthroughs in Cp*Co(iii)-promoted C-H functionalization, which has been extensively studied and developed and is likely to have important implications for the future development of high-performance materials science.

TL;DR: A structured spinneret comprising two acentric needles nested into a third metal capillary was developed to conduct three-fluid electrospinning processes and high quality polyvinylpyrrolidone/shellac Janus nanofibers could be prepared.

TL;DR: Metal-organic framework derived carbon-confined Ni2P nanocrystals supported on graphene with high effective surface area, more exposed active sites, and enhanced charge transport were successfully designed and shows excellent oxygen evolution reaction performance.

TL;DR: A novel N-doped MOF-based hierarchical carbon fiber (NPCF) towards supercapacitors was prepared by the pyrolysis of MOF nanofibers due to its unique 1D hollow structures.

TL;DR: The engineering of molecular two-photon photosensitisers for PDT should bring important benefits to the treatment, increase the treatment penetration depth with near-infrared light excitation, improve the spatial selectivity and reduce the photodamage to healthy tissues.

TL;DR: A set of identical Co3O4 nanosheets with different oxygen vacancy amounts are rationally designed by varied reduction treatments and comparison of their properties and exhibit excellent electrochemical performance for their potential use as a promising candidate for the next generation of supercapacitors.

TL;DR: A simple and promising method to improve the OER catalytic activity via an acid-base reaction, which resulted in an exfoliation process and multiple defects including Co, Fe and O vacancies is reported.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the development of the concept of installing directing groups into substrates to direct the functionalisation towards the desired C-H bond, leaving behind the directing group in the molecule.

TL;DR: A review of the recent developments of ALD and MLD of materials that are gaining increasing attention on various substrates, with particular emphasis on high-surface-area substrates and a critical review ofthe effects of the process conditions, namely, temperature, pressure, and time on ALD growth.