Ryan M. Weiss、Amy L. Short、Tara Y. Meyer2015-09-02ACS Macro Letters
A new general synthetic approach to sequenced macromolecules was developed and applied to the synthesis of polymers comprising lactic acid ( L ), glycolic acid ( G ), and ε-caprolactone ( C )-derived monomer units. The new method employs entropy-driven ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ED-ROMP) to prepare copoly…
Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterizationbiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesSynthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
Zhen Liu、Xianjun Liu、Yingda Du 等 5 位作者2015-09-02ACS Nano
As an efficient route to control pet overpopulation and develop neutered experimental animals, male sterilization via surgical techniques, chemical injections, and antifertility vaccines has brought particular attention recently. However, these traditional ways usually induce long-term adverse reactions, immune suppre…
Quantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesNanoplatforms for cancer theranosticsNanocluster Synthesis and Applications
Lidón Gil‐Escrig、Araceli Miquel-Sempere、Michele Sessolo 等 4 位作者2015-09-02The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Vacuum deposition techniques are used to prepare mixed iodide-bromide methylammonium lead perovskite diodes via an intermediate double layer of the pure iodide and bromide perovskites. The diodes lead to bright electroluminescence, whose emission spectra maxima shift from the infrared toward the visible with increasin…
Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsQuantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesSolid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
Alexander McPherson、Lawrence J. DeLucas2015-09-02npj Microgravity
Over the past 20 years a variety of technological advances in X-ray crystallography have shortened the time required to determine the structures of large macromolecules (i.e., proteins and nucleic acids) from several years to several weeks or days. However, one of the remaining challenges is the ability to produce dif…
Protein Structure and DynamicsEnzyme Structure and FunctionCrystallization and Solubility Studies
Yang Ye、Timothy R. Cook、Shu-Ping Wang 等 6 位作者2015-09-02Journal of the American Chemical Society
We present the formation of a series of chiral metallacycles and metallacages by the use of a BINOL-derived dicarboxylate as a donor that is capable of affording a variety of coordination angles between its two Lewis basic sites. Two squares, two rhomboids, two tetragonal prisms, and one hexagonal prism were successfu…
Supramolecular Chemistry and ComplexesMagnetism in coordination complexesAdvanced NMR Techniques and Applications
Naga Rajesh Tummala、Zilong Zheng、Saadullah G. Aziz 等 5 位作者2015-09-02The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
We use a combination of molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculations to investigate the energetic disorder in fullerene systems. We show that the energetic disorder evaluated from an ensemble average contains contributions of both static origin (time-independent, due to loose packing) and…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesFullerene Chemistry and ApplicationsThermal properties of materials
Anita Rácz、Dávid Bajusz、Károly Héberger2015-09-02SAR and QSAR in environmental research
Recent implementations of QSAR modelling software provide the user with numerous models and a wealth of information. In this work, we provide some guidance on how one should interpret the results of QSAR modelling, compare and assess the resulting models, and select the best and most consistent ones. Two QSAR datasets…
Computational Drug Discovery MethodsSpectroscopy and Chemometric AnalysesMachine Learning in Materials Science
Seung‐Ho Yu、Dong Jun Lee、Mihyun Park 等 12 位作者2015-09-02Journal of the American Chemical Society
We report a simple synthetic method of carbon-based hybrid cellular nanosheets that exhibit outstanding electrochemical performance for many key aspects of lithium-ion battery electrodes. The nanosheets consist of close-packed cubic cavity cells partitioned by carbon walls, resembling plant leaf tissue. We loaded carb…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationAdvanced Battery Technologies Research
Shutao Gao、Weihua Liu、Cheng Feng 等 5 位作者2015-09-02Catalysis Science & Technology
Ag–Pd alloys deposited on an amine-functionalized UiO-66(NH 2 –UiO-66) have been successfully prepared via a pre-coordination method and used as a AgPd@NH 2 –UiO-66 catalyst with 100% H 2 selectivity and a high catalytic activity.
Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceHydrogen Storage and MaterialsCarbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
Thomas Foley、M. Scott Shell、W. G. Noid2015-09-02The Journal of Chemical Physics
By eliminating unnecessary degrees of freedom, coarse-grained (CG) models tremendously facilitate numerical calculations and theoretical analyses of complex phenomena. However, their success critically depends upon the representation of the system and the effective potential that governs the CG degrees of freedom. Thi…
Protein Structure and DynamicsMaterial Dynamics and PropertiesTheoretical and Computational Physics
Angelo Di Bernardo、S. Diesch、Yuanjun Gu 等 9 位作者2015-09-02Nature Communications
The theory of superconductivity developed by Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer (BCS) explains the stabilization of electron pairs into a spin-singlet, even frequency, state by the formation of an energy gap within which the density of states is zero. At a superconductor interface with an inhomogeneous ferromagnet, a gapl…
Physics of Superconductivity and MagnetismQuantum and electron transport phenomenaIron-based superconductors research
Miaomiao Li、Feng Liu、Xiangjian Wan 等 13 位作者2015-09-02Advanced Materials
A series of solvents with different solubilities for DR3TBDTT and PC71 BM, and different boiling points, is used for solvent vapor annealing (SVA) treatment to systematically investigate the solvent-morphology-performance relationship. The presence of solvent molecules inside bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) thin films promo…
Organic Electronics and PhotovoltaicsLiquid Crystal Research AdvancementsPolymer crystallization and properties
Changbao Zhu、Peter Kopold、Weihan Li 等 6 位作者2015-09-02Advanced Science
Transition metal sulfides have a great potential for energy storage due to the pronouncedly higher capacity (owing to conversion to metal or even alloy) than traditional insertion electrode materials. However, the poor cycling stability still limits the development and application in lithium and sodium ion batteries.…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsAdvanced Battery Materials and TechnologiesMXene and MAX Phase Materials
Mohamed Abdou、N.B. Morley、S. Smolentsev 等 7 位作者2015-09-02Fusion Engineering and Design
The breeding blanket with integrated first wall (FW) is the key nuclear component for power extraction, tritium fuel sustainability, and radiation shielding in fusion reactors. The ITER device will address plasma burn physics and plasma support technology, but it does not have a breeding blanket. Current activities to…
Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit DesignFusion materials and technologiesGas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
Artem A. Bakulin、Oleg Selig、Huib J. Bakker 等 12 位作者2015-09-02The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
The introduction of a mobile and polarized organic moiety as a cation in 3D lead-iodide perovskites brings fascinating optoelectronic properties to these materials. The extent and the time scales of the orientational mobility of the organic cation and the molecular mechanism behind its motion remain unclear, with diff…
Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsSpectroscopy and Laser ApplicationsSolid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
Lei Shi、Gao‐Ming Deng、Wen‐Cui Li 等 7 位作者2015-09-02Angewandte Chemie International Edition
In heterogeneous catalysis, supports play a crucial role in modulating the geometric and electronic structure of the active metal phase for optimizing the catalytic performance. A γ-Al2O3 nanosheet that contains 27% pentacoordinate Al(3+) sites can nicely disperse and stabilize raft-like Pt-Sn clusters as a result of…
Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceZeolite Catalysis and SynthesisCatalysis and Oxidation Reactions
Ye Wang、Shouzhong Zou、Wen‐Bin Cai2015-09-02Catalysts
The ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) has drawn increasing interest in electrocatalysis and fuel cells by considering that ethanol as a biomass fuel has advantages of low toxicity, renewability, and a high theoretical energy density compared to methanol. Since EOR is a complex multiple-electron process involving variou…
Electrocatalysts for Energy ConversionCatalytic Processes in Materials ScienceCO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
Giacomo Maculan、Arif D. Sheikh、Ahmed L. Abdelhady 等 10 位作者2015-09-02The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Single crystals of hybrid perovskites have shown remarkably improved physical properties compared to their polycrystalline film counterparts, underscoring their importance in the further development of advanced semiconductor devices. Here we present a new method of growing sizable CH3NH3PbCl3 single crystals based on…
Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsChalcogenide Semiconductor Thin FilmsSolid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
B. B. Jain、R.B. Patel2015-09-02International Letters of Chemistry Physics and Astronomy
Homologous series RO-C 6 H 4 -CH=CH-COO-C 6 H 4 -CO-CH=CH-C 6 H 4 -OC 14 H 29 (P) of chalconyl novel derivatives have been synthesized and studied with a views to understand and establish the relation between molecular structure and the liquid crystal (LC) properties of thermotropic mesomorphs Series consists of thirt…
Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
Xuan Thang Cao、Ali Md Showkat、Kim Lien Nguyen Thi 等 5 位作者2015-09-02Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
Poly(N-vinylcarbazole) covalently grafted zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-g-PNVC) were synthesized with a simple route using surface initiated reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Initially, the surface of ZnO nanoparticles was modified by the condensation reaction of 3-chloropropyltri…
Conducting polymers and applicationsPolymer Nanocomposite Synthesis and IrradiationSilicone and Siloxane Chemistry