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Functional metal–organic frameworks derived electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage: a review

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13292-13313
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04086D, Highlight
Basree, Arif Ali, Khusboo Kumari, Musheer Ahmad, Ganesh Chandra Nayak
Pristine MOFs and their derivatives have been proven for supercapacitor as well as energy storage due to their versatile features like huge specific surface area, high porosity, redox active metal centre, high thermal stability, and so on.
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Rapid identification of P–C bonds in phosphorus–carbon anode materials

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03317E, Communication
Yadong Ye, Qiang Xiao, Huanyu Xie, Hongchang Jin, Hengxing Ji
This work presents a simple, rapid, and convenient spectroscopic analysis method for characterizing the bonding state in phosphorus-carbon composites.
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Sustainable Production of Aromatic Chemicals from Lignin using Enzymes and Engineered Microbes

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05064A, Feature Article
Open Access
Timothy D.H. Bugg, Victoria Sodré
Lignin is an aromatic biopolymer found in plant cell walls, that is the must abundant source of renewable aromatic carbon in the biosphere. Hence there is considerable interest in the...
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Design strategy and molecular level understanding: hole transport materials with suitable transition dipole orientation for OLEDs

Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2024, 9,1116-1129
DOI: 10.1039/D3ME00127J, Paper
Krishan Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Anirban Karmakar, Dipanshu Sharma, Feng-Rong Chen, Mangey Ram Nagar, Jwo-Huei Jou, Subrata Banik, Subrata Ghosh
A combined experimental and theoretical study on a group of phenothiazine-substituted pyridine is reported.
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Mesoporous carbon hollow spheres loaded with Fe/Fe3C as efficient solar vapour generation materials

New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7168-7175
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00424H, Paper
Jianfeng Gao, Hui Zhang, Zhaoshun Zhang, Changcheng Lin, Qun Yang, Shiwei Shi, Xueqin Zuo, Shaowei Jin, Guang Li
An evaporator has two major advantages: excellent interfacial evaporation efficiency and organic pollution treatment capacity.
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Research progress of Co-based spinel oxide materials for direct methanol fuel cells

New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7148-7167
DOI: 10.1039/D3NJ05431D, Paper
Zhiyang Zhong, Qinghui Zhang, Yingying Zhu, Bingyu Chen, Siyan Xu, Tianyu Shen, Aijuan Xie, Shiping Luo
With decades of research, both the synthesis and applications of spinels have achieved greatly increased development. The preparation, regulation strategies, and their application in MOR of Co based spinels are reviewed in this paper.
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3D interconnected polymer/mesoporous silica nanoparticle hybrid materials with hierarchical macro/meso-structures for heavy metal adsorption

New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7503-7516
DOI: 10.1039/D3NJ05887E, Paper
Jae-Seo Park, Young Sunwoo, Debabrata Chakraborty, Chamila Gunathilake, Yanhai Du, Eun-Bum Cho
This work offers nanohybrid structures for heavy metal ion adsorption from water, which include a unique 3D cross-linked structure that combines organic polymer chains with mesoporous materials to improve adsorption efficiency.
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Mechanochemical synthesis of biphenyl-derived organic fluorescent materials via solvent-free and ligand-free oxidative homocoupling reactions

New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7356-7361
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00886C, Paper
Zefeng Li, Caihang Zhang, Yingxuan Zheng, Ping Deng, Yan Yu
The palladium-catalyzed solvent-free and ligand-free oxidative homocoupling reactions of aryl boronic acids via ball-milling are developed to synthesize a series of biphenyl-derived organic fluorescent materials.
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Evaluation of adsorption and degradation performance of lanthanum modified mesoporous carbon nitride composite materials for tetracycline wastewater

New J. Chem., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00864B, Paper
Zhiqiang Wu, Yueyi Li, Pengxi Jiang, Sisi Ma, Wenfei Dong, Hongjian Zhao, Enke Feng, Xuming Wang
The lanthanum modified mesoporous graphite nitride carbon composites (La-g-C3N4) were synthesized using a thermal shrinkage polymerization method. The samples underwent characterization through the X-ray diffraction (XRD), the fourier transform infrared...
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Selenium nanomaterials promoted ferredoxin and iron–sulfur protein synthesis and acetyl CoA carboxylase activity to improve the photosynthesis and fatty-acid synthesis in soybean

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EN00978E, Paper
Lian Zhang, Xiaona Li, Le Yue, Xuesong Cao, Bingxu Cheng, Chuanxi Wang, Zhenyu Wang
Herein, the effect of selenium engineered nanomaterials (Se ENMs) on soybean photosynthesis and fatty-acid synthesis by regulating ferredoxin (Fd) and iron–sulfur (Fe/S) protein synthesis and acetyl CoA carboxylase (ACC) activity was explored.
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Mechanistic approaches for crosstalk between nanomaterials and plants: plant immunomodulation, defense, stress resilience, toxicity, and perspectives

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EN00053F, Paper
Ragini Singh, Pinky Choudhary, Santosh Kumar, Hemant Kumar Daima
Plants are confronted with unexpected and diverse environmental pressures in the era of climate change. Plant development and metabolism are significantly hindered by both abiotic and biotic stress, which leads...
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Biomass@MOF nanohybrid materials for competitive drug adsorption: analysis by conventional macroscopic models and statistical physical models

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, 11,1543-1558
DOI: 10.1039/D3EN00843F, Paper
Bryan Fernando Rivadeneira-Mendoza, Luis Santiago Quiroz-Fernández, Fausthon Fred da Silva, Rafael Luque, Alina M. Balu, Joan Manuel Rodríguez-Díaz
This study discloses the design of nanohybrid Biomass@MOF resulting from the functionalization of a hydrochar (HC) through hydrothermal treatment (HT) of corn cob residues and MIL-53(Al).
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Ecotoxicity testing of nanomaterials in sediment – suggestions to improve science and regulation

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, 11,1477-1486
DOI: 10.1039/D3EN00459G, Paper
Amalie Thit, Lars M. Skjolding, Steffen Foss Hansen
Sediments generally act as a sink of released manufactured nanomaterials (NMs).
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Composite materials based on halloysite clay nanotubes and cellulose from Posidonia oceanica sea balls: from films to geopolymers

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, 11,1508-1520
DOI: 10.1039/D3EN00879G, Paper
Martina Maria Calvino, Giuseppe Cavallaro, Stefana Milioto, Giuseppe Lazzara
The combination of natural halloysite nanotubes and cellulose recovered from egagropili is effective to fabricate composite films and geopolymers promising for packaging and building applications, respectively.
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2023 Outstanding Papers published in the Environmental Science journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, 11,1329-1331
DOI: 10.1039/D4EN90012J, Editorial
Zongwei Cai, Neil Donahue, Graham Gagnon, Kevin C. Jones, Célia Manaia, Elsie Sunderland, Peter J. Vikesland
The Editors-in-Chief of the Environmental Science journals introduce the Outstanding Papers of 2023.
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Functional silver-based nanomaterials affecting zebrafish development: the adverse outcomes in relation to the nanoparticle physical and chemical structure

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3EN00813D, Paper
Open Access
Patrizia Bonfanti, Anita Colombo, Rossella Daniela Bengalli, Maurizio Gualtieri, Ilaria Zanoni, Magda Blosi, Anna Costa, Paride Mantecca
The growing demand for effective antimicrobials determined a significant increase of new nanoformulated materials to fight against bacteria and viruses, to be used in many industrial sectors including textiles, cosmetics,...
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Anatase TiO2 nanomaterials are much more effective in enhancing hydrolysis of organophosphorus compounds than their rutile counterparts

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EN00138A, Paper
Tong Li, Yiting Ju, Tingting Du, Chuanjia Jiang, Tong Zhang, Wei Chen
The crystalline phase significantly affects the efficiency of TiO2 nanomaterials in catalyzing hydrolysis reactions of organophosphates, primarily by modulating the surface Lewis acidity of TiO2.
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Study on growth technology and optical properties of large size and high quality methylamine lead bromide single crystals

CrystEngComm, 2024, 26,2003-2008
DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00028E, Paper
Yuanlong Sun, Yundong Ma, Xiangting Li, Ziyu Hu, Guozong Zheng
As a new generation of photoelectric materials, organic–inorganic halide perovskites have been widely used in photodetectors, solar cells and other fields, but most of the current mainstream applications are thin film materials.
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Crystallization behaviour and growth mechanisms of spinel crystals in vanadium slag with high MgO content

CrystEngComm, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00189C, Paper
Jiang Diao, Haoran Tao, Zhiqiu Lai, Yiyu Qiu, Lian Chen, Hongyi Li, Bing Xie
In this study, MgO content and FeO/SiO2 ratio were found to significantly increase the integrated crystallization rate of spinel phase in vanadium slag.
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Zn1−xMgxTe and P:Zn1−xMgxTe (x = 0.06–0.25) bulk crystals grown by travelling Te solution method

CrystEngComm, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00081A, Paper
Yuchen Song, Tingting Zhang, Jiahui Lv, Guorong Zhang, Changyou Liu, Tao Wang, Gangqiang Zha, Wanqi Jie
Zn1−xMgxTe and P:Zn1−xMgxTe (x = 0.06–0.25) bulk crystals were successfully grown by travelling Te solution method. The segregation of Mg with the growth of crystal is weaken and the as-grown crystal has high homogeneity.
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Thermal fluctuation-induced selective CO2 uptake of seemingly nonporous N,C-protected dipeptide crystals as elucidated by in situ X-ray crystallographic analysis

CrystEngComm, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3CE01018J, Paper
Kazuaki Yamanaka, Ryusei Oketani, Yuya Mori, Takashi Sato, Seiji Tsuzuki, Hiroki Takahashi, Hirohito Tsue
A novel N,C-protected dipeptide deposited nonporous but yet CO2-sorbing molecular crystals, of which the CO2 sorption state was disclosed.
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Assessing aspects of solution-based chemical synthesis to convert waste Si solar cells into nanostructured aluminosilicate crystals

CrystEngComm, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00038B, Paper
Open Access
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Edita Garskaite, Math Bollen, Enock Mulenga, Mathis Warlo, Glenn Bark, Espen Olsen, Dalia Brazinskiene, Denis Sokol, Dietrich Buck, Dick Sandberg
An affordable, scalable, and easily adoptable solution-based processing route provides a potential way of converting waste Si solar cells into aluminosilicate minerals to contribute to sustainability in the solar energy value chain.
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Gefitinib salts/cocrystals with phenolic acids as a promising solid-state approach to improve solubility

CrystEngComm, 2024, 26,2112-2122
DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00039K, Paper
Yao Zou, Xin Meng, Baoxi Zhang, Hongmei Yu, Guorong He, Ningbo Gong, Yang Lu, Guanhua Du
In this study, we designed and synthesized a series of gefitinib (GEF) salts and cocrystals with phenolic acids, comprising two salts, one cocrystal, and two salt cocrystals. All these forms exhibited significant improvements in solubility compared to pure GEF.
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First-principles prediction of a direct Z-scheme WSe2/HfS2 van der Waals heterostructure for overall photocatalytic water decomposition

CrystEngComm, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00267A, Paper
Yan Zhang, Zhi-Bo Qiang, Jian-Xin Ding, Kang-Xin Xie, Li Duan, Lei Ni
The direct Z-scheme heterostructures photocatalyst has been validated as an efficacious approach for addressing the energy source issues and environmental challenges. This manuscript employs the first-principles to scrutinize singular-layer WSe2...
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Synthesis and photophysical properties of charge transfer cocrystals based on TCNB and fluorene and its derivatives

CrystEngComm, 2024, 26,2155-2165
DOI: 10.1039/D3CE01208E, Paper
Wenxiu Yao, Pengfei Wu, Yidan Xie, Xinyu Shen, Shuwei Xia, Liangmin Yu
A series of charge transfer cocrystals with fluorescence properties involving 1,2,4,5-tetracyanobenzene as acceptor, fluorene, 2-bromofluorene, carbazole and 2-bromocarbazole as donor were synthesized via cocrystal design strategies.
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The development of an approach for the precision determination of thermal strain tensor elements for single crystals using the example of t-Ag0.8Li0.2InSe2

CrystEngComm, 2024, 26,2207-2218
DOI: 10.1039/D3CE01186K, Paper
Polina S. Serebrennikova, Sergey I. Lobanov, Alexander S. Sukhikh, Lyudmila I. Isaenko, Sergey A. Gromilov
A new approach to the precision determination of single-crystal unit cell parameters is proposed and demonstrated using tetragonal Ag0.8Li0.2InSe2.
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Distribution of basal plane dislocations in 4-degree off-axis 4H-SiC single crystals

CrystEngComm, 2024, 26,2143-2154
DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00055B, Paper
Sheng'ou Lu, Binjie Xu, Yazhe Wang, Hongyu Chen, Wei Hang, Rong Wang, Julong Yuan, Xiaodong Pi, Deren Yang, Xuefeng Han
The basal plane slip model in 4H-SiC was developed to investigate the effects of off-axis angles on total resolved shear stress. The results showed that the TRSS changed from 6-fold to 4-fold symmetry with the increasing off-axis angles.
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Elon Musk signals Twitter's headquarters may not stay in San Francisco

San Francisco officials said they would investigate Twitter after six former employees alleged that the company broke laws by turning its headquarters into a ‘Twitter Hotel’




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Meta’s Threads App ‘positive’ vibe tested by users known for false claims

Threads has started with some built-in defense mechanisms for harmful content, as its user policies are the same as Instagram’s




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Musk's X delays access to content on Reuters, NY Times, social media rivals

A Washington Post report said clicking a link on X to one of the affected websites resulted in a delay of about five seconds before the webpage loaded




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Rare earth elements and critical minerals will be next geopolitical battleground: Survey

Shift to clean energy will boost demand




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The Conservatory, Bengaluru’s latest event space that plays host to unique food popups is also an ode to Lalbagh

So far the venue has played host to a variety of events including a Thai breakfast popup, a tapas do, where the space was set like a tapas bar, and a Sri Lankan food experience among others



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Officials violating service rules will face action, says Revenue Minister

Minister was responding to questions by mediapersons in connection with the recent Facebook posts by IAS officer N. Prasanth against his senior colleague A. Jayathilak




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Accept cheques from patients, CM tells private hospitals

Diktat from Fadnavis comes after a newborn died after hospital refused payment in old notes




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Investigator racial diversity and clinical trial participation [electronic resource] / Marcella Alsan, Romaine A. Campbell, Lukas Leister, Ayotomiwa Ojo

Cambridge, MA. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023




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False prophets of economics imperialism [electronic resource] : the limits of mathematical market models / Matthew Watson.

Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing , 2024.




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Scientists use simulation to determine most ‘comfortable’ wall materials

Eco-efficient wall materials, such as aerated autoclaved concrete blocks, enhance indoor comfort by significantly reducing temperatures in naturally ventilated houses 






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Do we need a course correction to meet climate goals?

Experts are agreed that more emphasis needs to be given to phasing out fossil fuel and stepping up on renewable energy




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The sun must also shine on solar panel recycling 

To make this renewable source of energy sustainable, an emphasis on managing the waste generated is critical 




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Recycling and a treasure trove of critical minerals 

Incentives could bolster extraction of precious lithium, cobalt, and nickel from end-of-life Li-ion batteries 




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North Korea jams GPS signals for 5th straight day: South Korea




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Fixing Cumulative Layout Shift Problems on DavidWalshBlog

Over 50 thousand developers visit DavidWalshBlog every month from around the world to learn JavaScript tricks and fix problems in their code. Unfortunately, some of them have a slow experience on the site. David tracks the performance of his Core Web Vitals and overall performance with Request Metrics. Recently, we noticed that his CLS performance […]

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Cognizant’s Synapse skilling initiative impacts 275,000 individuals in its first year

The rapid progress of Synapse comes at a time when there is a growing desire from organisations to train and redevelop talent




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Telcos creating a false equivalence with satellite operators on spectrum pricing : Amazon, Starlink

Reliance Jio, which is pushing for auctioning spectrum, said that arguments that satellite frequencies are always assigned in a shared mode and on a non-exclusive basis are both factually and technically incorrect and should be ignored




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Indian IT sector lags in global RPE standards, yet digital shift signals growth potential

The Indian IT sector, while traditionally emphasising cost-effective outsourcing, is gradually evolving to enhance RPE and profitability through investments in upskilling and digital innovation




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Fine bubble technology for the green synthesis of fairy chemicals

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00237G, Paper
Arun Kumar Manna, Mizuki Doi, Keiya Matsuo, Hiroto Sakurai, Ch. Subrahmanyam, Kohei Sato, Tetsuo Narumi, Nobuyuki Mase
Fairy chemicals (FCs) such as 2-azahypoxanthine (AHX), isolated from naturally occurring sources, are potential phytohormones in plants and efficiently synthesized by fine bubble technology consisting of micro- to nano-sized bubbles.
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On the mechanism of carboxylate elimination from carbohydrate monoester-derived radicals

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00241E, Communication
Open Access
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Julia A. Turner, Hendrik Zipse, Mark S. Taylor
Computational analysis of the HAT-induced expulsion of carboxylic acids from monoacylated pyranosides implicates concerted elimination through a hydrogen-bonded transition state.
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