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Porous current collector for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
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Cost and competitiveness of green hydrogen and the effects of the European Union regulatory framework Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Jonathan Brandt, Thore Iversen, Christoph Eckert, Florian Peterssen, Boris Bensmann, Astrid Bensmann, Michael Beer, Hartmut Weyer, Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach
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Rapidly declining costs of truck batteries and fuel cells enable large-scale road freight electrification Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Steffen Link, Annegret Stephan, Daniel Speth, Patrick Plötz
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Structural basis of the Meinwald rearrangement catalysed by styrene oxide isomerase Nat. Chem. (IF 21.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Basavraj Khanppnavar, Joel P. S. Choo, Peter-Leon Hagedoorn, Grigory Smolentsev, Saša Štefanić, Selvapravin Kumaran, Dirk Tischler, Fritz K. Winkler, Volodymyr M. Korkhov, Zhi Li, Richard A. Kammerer, Xiaodan Li
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Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes Nat. Chem. (IF 21.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Job J. C. Struijs, Mathias A. Ellwanger, Agamemnon E. Crumpton, Véronique Gouverneur, Simon Aldridge
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A lithium–aluminium heterobimetallic dimetallocene Nat. Chem. (IF 21.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Inga-Alexandra Bischoff, Sergi Danés, Philipp Thoni, Bernd Morgenstern, Diego M. Andrada, Carsten Müller, Jessica Lambert, Elias C. J. Gießelmann, Michael Zimmer, André Schäfer
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Real-world plastic-waste success stories can help to boost global treaty Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
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Interpersonal therapy can be an effective tool against the devastating effects of loneliness Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
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Inequality is bad — but that doesn’t mean the rich are Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
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Balls of lightning and flames from the sky: can science explain? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Standardized metadata for biological samples could unlock the potential of collections Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
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Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Cheap data and the absence of coincidences make maths an ideal testing ground for AI-assisted discovery — but only humans will be able to tell good conjectures from bad ones.
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How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Researchers are striving to reverse-engineer artificial intelligence and scan the ‘brains’ of LLMs to see what they are doing, how and why.
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The phenomenon of genomic imprinting was discovered 40 years ago Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Anne C. Ferguson-Smith, Marisa S. Bartolomei
Landmark 1984 experiments gave rise to a new epigenetics concept.
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How men evolved to care for babies — before society got in the way Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
An exploration of the evolution of male nurturing shows why, unlike fathers among other great apes, human dads are biologically wired to be hands-on parents.
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A DARPA-like agency could boost EU innovation — but cannot come at the expense of existing schemes Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
If Europe wants to create a high-risk, high-reward research body, it needs grass-roots backing.
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Mega study charts how genetic variants affect metabolism Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
The discovery of hundreds of genomic regions linked with metabolism promises to improve our understanding of metabolic diseases.
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Plasmid targeting and destruction by the DdmDE bacterial defence system Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jack P. K. Bravo, Delisa A. Ramos, Rodrigo Fregoso Ocampo, Caiden Ingram, David W. Taylor
While eukaryotic Argonautes play a pivotal role in post-transcriptional gene regulation through nucleic acid cleavage, some short prokaryotic Argonaute variants (pAgos) rely on auxiliary nuclease factors for efficient foreign DNA degradation (1). Here, we elucidate the activation pathway of the DNA Defense Module DdmDE system, which rapidly eliminates small, multicopy plasmids from Vibrio cholerae
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Dazzling auroras are just a warm-up as more solar storms are likely, scientists say Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
Nature talks to physicists about what to expect in the next months and beyond as the Sun hits its 'maximum'.
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Brain-reading device is best yet at decoding ‘internal speech’ Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
Technology that enables researchers to interpret brain signals could one day allow people to talk using only their thoughts.
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Human embryos embrace asymmetry to form the body Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
The cells generated by the very first division of the fertilized egg make a lopsided contribution to the body’s organs and tissues.
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Daily briefing: Internet use seems to boost well-being Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
A survey of people in 168 countries finds that Internet use might boost life satisfaction and sense of purpose. Plus, what a Neanderthal’s Mona-Lisa smile tells us about ourselves and how the cauliflower got its whorls.
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Daily briefing: A millimetre of brain in spectacular detail Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
Google scientists have modelled a tiny fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution. Plus, a bold proposal to limit extreme wealth.
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Green and sustainable recycling of lithium-ion battery via ionic liquid-driven cathode reduction method Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Yin Hu, Mingchen Yang, Qingyu Dong, Xiuyang Zou, Jiangtao Yu, Siyu Guo, Feng Yan
The recycling of spent lithium-ion battery cathodes (LIBs) is crucial to ensuring the sustainable development of natural resources and environmental protection. The current pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical recycling strategies involve high energy processing and expensive reagent consumption, raising both environmental and economic concerns. Here we demonstrate a green and recyclable process
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19% Efficiency All-Polymer Solar Cells via Introducing Pincer-Shaped Non-covalent Bond Interactions Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Jianxiao Wang, Yonghai Li, Chenyu Han, Liangliang Chen, Fuzhen Bi, Zunyuan Hu, Chunming Yang, Xichang Bao, Junhao Chu
Polymer blends are generally troubled by chaotic molecular entanglement, which limits the performance of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). Here, two small molecules (C5Ph, C6Ph) with phenylalkyl sidechains are developed as additive to tune all-polymer blends. Assisted by the characteristic sidechains, the small molecules afford multiple non-covalent interactions with polymer acceptor, which can effectively
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The origins of critical deformations in cylindrical silicon based Li-ion batteries Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Erik Lübke, Lukas Helfen, Phil Cook, Marta Mirolo, Valentin Vinci, Ove Korjus, Bernd Fuchsbichler, Stefan Koller, Roland Brunner, Jakub Drnec, Sandrine Lyonnard
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Hole-transporting alternating copolymers for perovskite solar cells: thia[5]helicene comonomer outperforms planar perylothiophene analog Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Lifei He, Yuyan Zhang, Bing Zhang, Tianyu Li, Yaohang Cai, Ming Ren, Jing Zhang, Peng Wang, Yi Yuan
Semiconducting polymers with high glass transition temperatures play a pivotal role in advancing thermally tolerant organic optoelectronic devices. This investigation underscores the remarkable potential of helicene as a comonomer in the construction of semiconducting polymers. Non-planar thia[5]helicene or planar perylo[1,12-bcd]thiophene is co-polymerized in an alternating fashion with 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene
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Defect-enabling zirconium-based metal–organic frameworks for energy and environmental remediation applications Chem. Soc. Rev. (IF 46.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Saba Daliran, Ali Reza Oveisi, Chung-Wei Kung, Unal Sen, Amarajothi Dhakshinamoorthy, Cheng-Hsun Chuang, Mostafa Khajeh, Mustafa Erkartal, Joseph T. Hupp
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Fluorescent small molecule donors Chem. Soc. Rev. (IF 46.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Guang Chen, Jing Yu, Luling Wu, Xinrui Ji, Jie Xu, Chao Wang, Siyue Ma, Qing Miao, Linlin Wang, Chen Wang, Simon E. Lewis, Yanfeng Yue, Zhe Sun, Yuxia Liu, Bo Tang, Tony D. James
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Enhancing corannulene chemiluminescence, electrochemiluminescence and photoluminescence by means of an azabora-helicene to slow down its bowl inversion Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Xiaoli Qin, Lin Huang, Ziying Zhan, Peng Fu, Qing Wang, Congyang Zhang, Jianhui Huang, Zhifeng Ding
Aromatic system extension of corannulene (Cor) is a synthetic challenge to access non-planar polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Herein, we report the design and synthesis of azaborahelicene corannulene 1 through hybridization of an azabora[5] helical structure and subsequent luminescence studies. Significant enhancement in chemiluminescence (CL), electroluminescence (ECL) and photoluminescence (PL)
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Protein-based layer-by-layer films for biomedical applications Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Muhammad Haseeb Iqbal, Halima Kerdjoudj, Fouzia Boulmedais
The surface engineering of biomaterials is crucial for their successful (bio)integration by the body, i.e. the colonization by the tissue-specific cell, and the prevention of fibrosis and/or bacterial colonization. Performed at room temperature in an aqueous medium, the layer-by-layer (LbL) coating method is based on the alternating deposition of macromolecules. Versatile and simple, this method allows
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Metallaaromaticity involving a d0 early transition metal centre: synthesis, structure, and aromaticity of tantallapyridinazirine complexes Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Jingting Yang, Xin Xu, Zhenyang Lin, Zuowei Xie
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Peptide Macrocyclisation via Intramolecular Interception of Visible-Light-Mediated Desulfurisation Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Frances R. Smith, Declan Meehan, Rhys C. Griffiths, Harriet J. Knowles, Peiyu Zhang, Huw Williams, Andrew Wilson, Nicholas J. Mitchell
Synthetic methods that enable the macrocyclisation of peptides facilitate the development of more effective therapeutic and diagnostic tools. Herein we report a peptide cyclisation strategy based on intramolecular interception of visible-light-mediated cysteine desulfurisation. This method allows cyclisation of unprotected peptides in an aqueous solution via the installation of a hydrocarbon linkage
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Conversion of waste poly(vinyl chloride) to branched polyethylene mediated by silylium ions Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Zachary A. Wood, Eunice C. Castro, Angelyn N. Nguyen, Megan E. Fieser
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Cross-linked K0.5MnO2 Nanoflower Composites for High Rate and Low Overpotential Li–CO2 Batteries Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Jiawei Wu, Jian Chen, Xiaoyang Chen, Yang Liu, Zhe Hu, Feijian Lou, Shulei Chou, Yun Qiao
Rechargeable Li-CO2 batteries are deemed to be an attractive energy storage system, as they can effectively inhale and fix carbon dioxide and possess an extremely high energy density. Unfortunately, the irreversible decomposition of the insoluble and insulating Li2CO3 results in awful electrochemical performance and inferior energy efficiency of Li-CO2 batteries. Furthermore, the low energy efficiency
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Palladium-Catalyzed Selective C-C Bond Cleavage of Keto-Vinylidenecyclopropanes: Construction of Structurally Rich Dihydrofurans and Tetrahydrofurans Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Chao Ning, Ziqi Yu, Min Shi, Yin Wei
Palladium catalyzed selective cleavage of distal C-C bond and proximal C-C bond of keto-vinylidenecyclopropanes by altering the sterically bulky phosphine ligands has been realized. The proximal C-C bond cleavage can be achieved by using dtbpf as a phosphine ligand, affording bicyclic products containing dihydrofuran skeletons in good yields along with broad substrate scope. In proximal C-C bond cleavage
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Atomically dispersed dinuclear iridium active sites for efficient and stable electrocatalytic chlorine evolution reaction Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Zhipeng Yu, Guang-Jie XIA, Vlad Martin-Diaconescu, Laura Simonelli, Alec P LaGrow, Zhixin Tai, Xinyi Xiang, Dehua Xiong, Lifeng Liu
The electrochemical chlorine evolution reaction (CER) is a critical anode reaction in chlor-alkali electrolysis. Although precious metal-based mixed metal oxides (MMOs) have long been used as CER catalysts, they suffer from high cost and poor selectivity due to the competing oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Single-atom catalysts (SACs), featuring high atom utilization, have captured widespread interest
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Exceptional Three- to Six-Photon Absorption at Organometallic Dendrimers Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Ling Zhang, Mahbod Morshedi, Torsten Schwich, Rika Kobayashi, Mark G Humphrey
The light-intensity dependence of multi-photon absorption (MPA) affords outstanding spatial control. Furthermore, compared to the higher-energy photons needed for analogous linear absorption, the lower-energy photons involved in MPA often correspond to important wavelengths, such as those of the biological and telecommunications “windows”. It is therefore of crucial importance to develop molecules
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Duplex-Forming Oligocarbamates with Tunable Nonbonding Sites Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 R. Kenton Weigel, Christopher A Alabi
In biopolymers such as proteins and nucleic acids, monomer sequence encodes for highly specific intra- and intermolecular interactions that direct self-assembly into complex architectures with high fidelity. This remarkable structural control translates into precise control over the properties of the biopolymer. Polymer scientists have sought to achieve similarly precise control over the structure
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Restructuring multi-phase interfaces from Cu-based metal-organic frameworks for selective electroreduction of CO2 to C2H4 Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jiye Feng, Wenbiao Zhang, Danni Shi, Yingshuai Jia, Yi Tang, Yuying Meng, Qingsheng Gao
Multi-phase interfaces are promising to surmount the energy barriers of electrochemical CO2 reduction involving multiple-electron transfer steps, but challenges still remain in ameliorating interfacial micro-structures and unraveling their dynamic changes and working mechanism. Herein, highly active Ag/Cu/Cu2O heterostructures are in situ electrochemically restructured from Ag-incorporated HKUST-1
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Synthesis of Thioesters by Electrochemical Three-Component Reaction Involving Elemental Sulfur Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Gongbo Liu, Shuoyu Xu, Yangyang Yue, Changhui Su, Wangze Song
The electrochemical three-component reaction involving elemental sulfur is disclosed for the synthesis of thioesters in metal-free, oxidants-free, high atom-, step-economical and chemoselective manner. Mechanistic investigation indicates that the use of elemental sulfur to trap acyl radical derived from radical umpolung of α-keto acid by electrochemical design can efficiently generate the carbonyl
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Catalysts for C–N coupling in urea electrosynthesis under ambient conditions from carbon dioxide and nitrogenous species Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Chunqi Yang, Ziyan Yang, Wenxuan Zhang, Aiping Chen, Yuhang Li
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Nickel-catalysed highly regioselective synthesis of β-acyl naphthalenes under reductive conditions Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Yu-Juan Wu, Chen Ma, Jia-Fan Qiao, Xiao-Yu Cheng, Yu-Feng Liang
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Platelike carbon-encapsulated nickel nanocrystals for efficient electrooxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Ting Sang, Hui Xu, Wenke Wang, Dongfang Ji, Jingcheng Hao, Zhonghao Li
Platelike carbon-encapsulated nickel nanocrystals (Ni@C) were engineered as a high-performance electrocatalyst for the conversion of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA). This electrocatalyst demonstrated remarkable electrocatalytic performance in oxidizing HMF at a low potential, achieving 100% HMF conversion, 97.7% FDCA yield, and 97.4% Faraday efficiency (FE).
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Hierarchical Chiral MOFs with the Induced Chirality of AIE Ligands Exhibiting the Non-reciprocal CPL Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Hong-Ru Fu, Dan-Dan Ren, Kun Zhang, Shuang Wang, Xu-Jing Yang, Qing-Rong Ding, Ya-Pan Wu
Two pairs of chiral MOFs DCF-15/LCF-15 and DCF-16/LCF-16 were constructed through assembly of the achiral aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-type multidentate linkers (TPPE and TPA) and chiral camphoric acid (D/L-cam). Benefiting from the visualized structures, it can clearly observe that the hierarchical chiral structures containing intrinsic chiral molecule, the assembled helical chain, the induced
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Electrochemical ring-opening carboxylation of cyclic carbonate with carbon dioxide Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Li Tao, He Wang, Xiao-Fei Liu, Wei-Min Ren, Xiao-Bing Lu, Wen-Zhen Zhang
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Cell viability imaging in tumor spheroids via DNA binding of a ruthenium(II) light-switch complex Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Vadde Ramu, Lukas S Wijaya, Nataliia Beztsinna, Corjan Van de Griend, Bob van de Water, Sylvestre Bonnet, Sylvia Le Dévédec
The famous ‘‘light-switch’’ ruthenium complex [Ru(bpy)2(dppz)](PF6)2 (1) has been long known for its DNA binding properties in vitro. However, the biological utility of this compound has been hampered by its poor cellular uptake in living cells. Here we report a bioimaging application of 1 as cell viability probe in both 2D cells monolayer and 3D multi-cellular tumor spheroids of the various cell lines
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Ligand-free 99mTc-polyurea dendrimer complexes: Nanoradiotheranostics targeted at ovarian cancer Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Adriana Cruz, Rita Pires, Célia Fernandes, António Rocha Paulo, Vasco D.B. Bonifácio
A folic acid-targeted polyurea (PURE) dendrimer was easily radiolabelled with Technetium-99m (99mTc-PUREG4-FA2) avoiding the use of additional ligands and bioconjugation chemistry. This straightforward strategy is enabled in PURE dendrimers due to their favourable surface terminal groups configuration, showing coordination capabilities and turning this biodendrimers attractive platforms for nanoradiotheranostics
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Thermo-temporal physisorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks probed by Cyclic Thermo-Ellipsometry Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Hajar Amyar, Civan Avci, Cedric Boissiere, Andrea Cattoni, Mondher Besbes, Marco Faustini
Temperature-induced sorption in porous materials is a well-known process. What is more challenging is to determine how the rate at which temperature is varied affects these processes. To address this question, we introduce a methodology called "cyclic thermo-ellipsometry" to explore the thermo-kinetics of vapor physisorption in Metal-Organic Framework films.
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Mechanism of Z-Selective Allylic Functionalization via Thianthrenium Salts J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Karina Targos, Achyut R. Gogoi, Ángel Rentería-Gómez, Min Ji Kim, Osvaldo Gutierrez, Zachary K. Wickens
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Palladium-Catalyzed Ligand-Controlled Switchable Hetero-(5 + 3)/Enantioselective [2σ+2σ] Cycloadditions of Bicyclobutanes with Vinyl Oxiranes J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jin-Lan Zhou, Yuanjiu Xiao, Linke He, Xin-Yu Gao, Xue-Chun Yang, Wen-Biao Wu, Guoqiang Wang, Junliang Zhang, Jian-Jun Feng
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Multicomponent, Multicavity Metallacages That Contain Different Binding Sites for Allosteric Recognition J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Haifei Liu, Chenxing Guo, Luqi Li, Zeyuan Zhang, Yali Hou, Chaoqun Mu, Gao-lei Hou, Zhenyi Zhang, Heng Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Mingming Zhang
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Mechanism of Electrocatalytic H2 Evolution, Carbonyl Hydrogenation, and Carbon–Carbon Coupling on Cu J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Hongwen Chen, Jayendran Iyer, Yue Liu, Simon Krebs, Fuli Deng, Andreas Jentys, Debra J. Searles, M. Ali Haider, Rachit Khare, Johannes A. Lercher
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Structural Basis for Parallel G-Quadruplex Recognition by an Ankyrin Protein J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Khac Huy Ngo, Chong Wai Liew, Brahim Heddi, Anh Tuân Phan
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Chemical Potential Analysis as an Alternative to the van’t Hoff Method: Hypothetical Limits of Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Stephan Lany
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Competing Reaction Mechanisms of Peptide Bond Formation in Water Revealed by Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics and Path Sampling J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Rolf David, Iñaki Tuñón, Damien Laage
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Triplet-Mediator Ligand-Protected Metal Nanocluster Sensitizers for Photon Upconversion J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Daichi Arima, Shion Hidaka, So Yokomori, Yoshiki Niihori, Yuichi Negishi, Ryuichi Oyaizu, Takumi Yoshinami, Kenji Kobayashi, Masaaki Mitsui
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Combined Computational and Experimental Study Reveals Complex Mechanistic Landscape of Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Silane-Dependent P═O Reduction J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Jingyang Zhang, Wang-Yeuk Kong, Wentao Guo, Dean J. Tantillo, Yefeng Tang
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Extraordinary Electrical Conductance through Amorphous Nonconducting Polymers under Vibrational Strong Coupling J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Sunil Kumar, Subha Biswas, Umar Rashid, Kavya S. Mony, Gokul Chandrasekharan, Francesco Mattiotti, Robrecht M. A. Vergauwe, David Hagenmuller, Veerabhadrarao Kaliginedi, Anoop Thomas