Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00739C, Research Article

So-Huei Kang, Myeonggeun Han, Yongjoon Cho, Jisu Hong, Seongmin Heo, Seonghun Jeong, Yong-Young Noh, Changduk Yang
Two n-type pyridine and selenophene-containing polymers were synthesized and the structure–property relationships were investigated, followed by polarity switching from ambipolarity to unipolar characteristics via the doping method.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00109K, Research Article

Josh D. B. Koenig, Mahmoud E. Farahat, Jasveer S. Dhindsa, Joe B. Gilroy, Gregory C. Welch
We report the synthesis and characterization of the first non-fullerene acceptor containing a boron difluoride formazanate core end-capped with N-annulated perylene diimides.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00108B, Research Article

Chun-Yen Chou, Robert Sung, Wei-Luen Chang, Kuangsen Sung
A novel green-fluorescent-protein-chromophore-based tripodal receptor 1 is synthesized. Its single crystal X-ray diffraction structure looks like a straight, long tube with one end closed. The diameter of the inner cavity...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00201A, Research Article

Jinfeng Zheng, Xiao Lian, Mingzai Wu, Fangcai Zheng, Yuan hao Gao, Helin Niu
Ni3S4 quantum dots (QDs) have great potential for supercapacitors due to their unique quantum effects, high specific surface area, high water solubility and good stability, but the current preparation process...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00123F, Research Article

Zhuohan Zhang, Linqiang Yang, Zhenghao Hu, Jiangsheng Yu, Xin Liu, Hongtao Wang, Jinru Cao, Fujun Zhang, Weihua Tang
Charge density modulation on thieno[2'',3'':5',6']-s-indaceno[2',1':4,5]dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyrrole core has been conducted for a systematic study of its impact on the electronic structure, molecular packing and photovoltaic performance of asymmetric fused-ring acceptors.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00113A, Research Article

Guangxi Huang, Xiaoyong Chang, Yuqing Jiang, Bei Lin, Bing Shi Li, Ben Zhong Tang
Two carboxyl substituted cyanostilbene derivatives can serve as novel mechanoluminescence materials and fluorescent sensors towards pH change and also amine vapors.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00780F, Research Article

Chong-Yong Lee, Sepidar Sayyar, Paul J. Molino, Gordon G. Wallace
We fabricated a 3D-printed multilayer conductive graphene/polycaprolactone composite electrode that shows excellent robustness, biocompatibility and electrochemical response.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00170H, Research Article

Hanxiao Yang, Jiabao Zhuang, Nan Li, Yue Li, Shiyu Zhu, Jiaxin Hao, Jiayao Xin, Na Zhao
A highly efficient near-infrared photosensitizer with aggregation-induced emission characteristics was developed for mitochondria-targeted and image-guided photodynamic cancer therapy.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00187B, Research Article

Si-Ying Niu, Ruoyu Zhang, Chongfeng Guo
The photocatalytic performance of semiconductor can be enhanced by expanding the spectral response and accelerating the photo-induced charge separation. Introduction of oxygen vacancies and construction of homo-junction in BiOCl were...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00094A, Research Article

Zi Xiao, Jiuding Liu, Guilan Fan, Meng Yu, Junxiang Liu, Xinglong Gou, Mingjian Yuan, Fangyi Cheng
Lithium-rich layered oxides (LLO), as the most attractive cathode materials for high-energy lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), are plagued by poor cyclability due to structural and electrode/electrolyte interface instability. Herein, we report...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00025F, Review Article

Kaojin Wang, Kamran Amin, Zesheng An, Zhengxu Cai, Hong Chen, Hongzheng Chen, Yuping Dong, Xiao Feng, Weiqiang Fu, Jiabao Gu, Yanchun Han, Doudou Hu, Rongrong Hu, Die Huang, Fei Huang, Feihe Huang, Yuzhang Huang, Jian Jin, Xin Jin, Qianqian Li, Tengfei Li, Zhen Li, Zhibo Li, Jiangang Liu, Jing Liu, Shiyong Liu, Huisheng Peng, Anjun Qin, Xin Qing, Youqing Shen, Jianbing Shi, Xuemei Sun, Bin Tong, Bo Wang, Hu Wang, Lixiang Wang, Shu Wang, Zhixiang Wei, Tao Xie, Chunye Xu, Huaping Xu, Zhi-Kang Xu, Bai Yang, Yanlei Yu, Xuan Zeng, Xiaowei Zhan, Guangzhao Zhang, Jie Zhang, Ming Qiu Zhang, Xian-Zheng Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Changsheng Zhao, Weifeng Zhao, Yongfeng Zhou, Zhuxian Zhou, Jintao Zhu, Xinyuan Zhu, Ben Zhong Tang
This review presents the recent developments in the research hotspots of advanced functional polymers; their concepts, design strategies, and applications are briefly discussed.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00048E, Research Article

Bo-Ren Lin, Horng-Long Cheng, Hung-Han Lin, Fu-Chiao Wu, Jia-Hui Lin, Wei-Yang Chou, Jrjeng Ruan, Yu-Wu Wang
Polymeric transistors with unexpected nondecaying features even in ambient air are fabricated based on a P3HT/PMMA pseudo-bilayer with microphase separation morphology.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00120A, Research Article

Yuanyuan Zhang, Guangwu Hu, Qiang Yu, Zhenhui Liu, Chang Yu, Longsheng Wu, Liang Zhou, Liqiang Mai
Yolk@shell structured SiO_x/C@C has been constructed through a polydopamine sacrificial layer mediated strategy, and the SiO_x/C@C displays high specific capacity and durable cyclability in lithium storage.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00014K, Research Article

Jin Wang, Meng Gao, Zhong-Kai Cui, Yong-Guang Jia, Sa Liu, Kai-Feng Chen, Xiaohui Chen, Yiqing Zhang, Zhou Fang, Yunhua Chen, Kaojin Wang, Huatang Zhang, Lin Wang, Li Ren
Dual-responsive poly(vinyl alcohol) derivatives bearing AIEgens and quaternary ammonium moieties were prepared through a facile one-pot quaternization for the pH-switchable imaging and killing of bacteria.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00087F, Research Article

Kassem Amro, Anil K Thakur, Marc Rolland, Arie van der Lee, Vincent Lemaur, Roberto Lazzaroni, Cyril Poriel, Joëlle Rault-Berthelot, Lionel Hirsch, Sébastien Clément, Philippe Gerbier
1,1’-disubstituted-2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsiloles incorporating triptycene moieties Tp-DMTPS and Tp-MPTPS were prepared and characterized. Like other 2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsiloles, both compounds exhibit aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior. Unexpectedly, the solid state PL emission of Tp-DMTPS show...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1289-1303
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00674E, Chemistry Frontiers

Xiao-Hao Liu, Wei-Hong Lai, Shu-Lei Chou
This work will open a new view for the design of hollow micro-/nanostructures used as cathodes for sodium-ion batteries, enclosing the superiority of this unique structure to enhance the electrochemical performance.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1304-1314
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00022A, Review Article

R. Dean Astumian, Cristian Pezzato, Yuanning Feng, Yunyan Qiu, Paul R. McGonigal, Chuyang Cheng, J. Fraser Stoddart
Hypothetical transmembrane rotaxane as a model for trajectory thermodynamic theory of synthetic molecular pumps.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1421-1433
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00752K, Research Article

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E. Pérez, N. M. Carretero, S. Sandoval, A. Fuertes, G. Tobias, N. Casañ-Pastor
Electrochemical modulation of N-graphene oxide in IrO_x hybrids results in an oxidizing range of graphenes and large charge capacities.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1411-1420
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00737G, Research Article

Jin Liu, Jianai Chen, Yujie Dong, Yue Yu, Shitong Zhang, Jianli Wang, Qingbao Song, Weijun Li, Cheng Zhang
Revealing the actual origin of the unusual red-shifted aggregation-state emission of triphenylamine-imidazole molecules: is the photochemical reaction rather than the excimers.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1483-1491
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00082E, Research Article

Tianyu Tang, Teng Zhang, Lina Zhao, Biao Zhang, Wei Li, Junjie Xu, Long Zhang, Hailong Qiu, Yanglong Hou
The utilization of hosts with uniform dispersion of sulfur and multifunctional parts which can interact strongly with polysulfides facilitates the improved performance of Li–S batteries.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1454-1458
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00080A, Research Article

Wenting Li, Qishi Liu, Ke Jin, Ming Cheng, Feng Hao, Wu-Qiang Wu, Shengjian Liu, Zuo Xiao, Shangfeng Yang, Shengwei Shi, Liming Ding
Phenazine copolymer donors demonstrate an efficiency of 15.14% in nonfullerene organic solar cells.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1492-1499
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00783K, Research Article

Faxu Lin, Yang Feng, Xiaoqing Liu, Lei Wang, Zhen-Qiang Yu, Yi Liu
A series of novel AIEgens based on Katritzky pyridinium salts were readily synthesized and exhibited interesting aggregation-induced emission behaviors, remarkable mechanochromic luminescence, and promising heparin detection.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1459-1470
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00062K, Research Article

Yue Jiang, Ziyang Liu, Zhigang Yin, Qingdong Zheng
A novel type of polymer sandwich dielectric is developed for air-stable, hysteresis-free and flexible OTFTs which can be used for low-power pressure sensors with ultrahigh sensitivity, wide detection range and fast response.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1375-1382
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00075B, Research Article

Yuanbo Feng, Hongxia Yan, Fan Ding, Tian Bai, Yufeng Nie, Yan Zhao, Weixu Feng, Ben Zhong Tang
The presented work shows an impressive multicolour luminescence hyperbranched polysiloxane attributed to the multiring through-space conjugation named “multiring induced multicolor emission” (MIE), as well as its application in data encryption.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1507-1518
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00016G, Research Article

Xunfan Liao, Yongjie Cui, Xueliang Shi, Zhaoyang Yao, Heng Zhao, Yongkang An, Peipei Zhu, Yaxiao Guo, Xiang Fei, Lijian Zuo, Ke Gao, Francis Lin, Qian Xie, Lie Chen, Wei Ma, Yiwang Chen, Alex K.-Y. Jen
The dipole moment of FREAs’ terminals has been unveiled as an important factor and its working mechanism has been thoroughly investigated. Our results demonstrate that the dipole moment should also be taken into account in designing ternary OSCs.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1366-1374
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00128G, Research Article

Jinyang Zhang, Xuan Sun, Yang Liu, Linrui Hou, Changzhou Yuan
Hierarchical yolk–shell Ni₂P/ZnP₂ hollow microspheres are smartly synthesized, and exhibit exceptional OER performance, benefiting from their unique compositional/structural merits.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00033G, Research Article

Hai-Jing Yin, Zhi-Ping Zhang, Yu Guo, Kun Yuan, Ya-Wen Zhang
PtRuCu NFs/C exhibited much higher mass activity and specific activity than commercial Pt/C and PtRuCu NPs/C towards the MOR due to the frame nanostructures and the synergistic effect of the trimetallics.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00226G, Research Article

Han Pan, Hongwei Chu, Xiao Wang, Ying Li, Shengzhi Zhao, Guiqiu Li, Dechun Li
In this paper, we report the large optical nonlinearities of Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-67 (ZIF-67) in the near-infrared (NIR) region. Typical Z-scan techniques were carried out to determine the nonlinear optical...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00186D, Review Article

Tianhao Lan, Libo Li, Yang Chen, Xiaoqing Wang, Jiangfeng Yang, Jinping Li
Light olefins (ethylene, propylene, and 1,3-butadiene) are widely used as building blocks in the petrochemical industry and for the fabrication of everyday products. Developing energy cost-efficient porous materials for the...
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