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Materials chemistry involves the use of chemistry for the design and synthesis of materials with interesting or potentially useful physical characteristics, such as magnetic, optical, structural or catalytic properties. It also involves the characterization, processing and molecular-level understanding of these substances.
A plasmonic printing technology is developed to enable rapid, room-temperature, scalable fabrication of all-metal oxide thin-film transistors and circuits.
Helical polythiophene and polypyrrole are synthesized using a chiral iron-based metal–organic framework template. Single-handed helices are formed within the framework’s narrow channels, enhancing the chirality-induced spin polarization of the metal–organic framework to 94%.
This paper uses an arylphosphonic acid with a porphyrin core, which crystalizes as a charge-assisted hydrogen bonded organic framework, to monitor copper ions in C. elegans, and studies metal responsiveness with a range of transition metal and heavy metal ions.
Bouligand structures, which offer strength in natural materials, are of interest but difficult to obtain. Here, the authors report the development of such structures by directed self-assembly of cholesteric single crystals into hierarchical helical structures, with the secondary structure having right and left-handed twists.
Here, the authors elucidate the evolutionary origins of coccolithophores, identifying impressions of their calcium carbonate skeletons in ~241- million-year-old rocks. Their presence in the Triassic, alongside unrelated calcifying organisms, suggests a diversification of marine calcifying organisms after the end-Permian mass extinction.
Uranium extraction is necessary to power nuclear reactors, though it is challenging to extract uranium from seawater. Here the authors design a polyacrylonitrile-polyethyleneimine adsorbent to extract uranium from seawater.
A plasmonic printing technology is developed to enable rapid, room-temperature, scalable fabrication of all-metal oxide thin-film transistors and circuits.
Communications Chemistry is pleased to present a Collection of articles on triplet-harvesting materials. Here, the Guest Editors introduce the topic and look towards the future of the field.
