Themed collection 2026 PCCP Reviews

Janus MoSSe has emerged as a promising 2D platform for photocatalytic water splitting owing to its intrinsic out-of-plane dipole, selective surface reactivity, and efficient charge separation.

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) bridges multiple scientific domains, linking chemical physics, materials science, and biology by revealing how molecular handedness can control electron spin across physical and living systems.

This Perspective highlights advances and challenges in Cd/Pb-free ZnSeTe quantum dots for high-performance, environmentally sustainable QLEDs across the full visible spectrum.

Reverse-screening methodologies have emerged as powerful tools for identifying molecular targets of bioactive compounds, complementing experimental approaches and accelerating drug discovery.

This review summarizes methods for estimating entropy production rates from observed trajectories and coarse-grained time series.

We review gas-phase investigations of sulfur-centered non-covalent interactions, highlighting the high-resolution advantage of microwave spectroscopy for structural and energetic assessments.

Oxide-supported metal nanoparticles undergo complex structural evolutions during preparation and reaction. This review discusses key factors driving such evolutions and offers insight into designing efficient and stable heterogeneous catalysts.

Ethylene is a fundamental petrochemical feedstock, and efficient, low-carbon ethane-to-ethylene conversion processes are gaining increasing importance.

Trimetallic metal–organic frameworks represent a novel class of materials that outperform their monometallic and bimetallic counterparts by providing cooperative catalysis, enhanced electron transport, and improved binding of reaction intermediates.

The increasing need for green energy production has spurred investigations into photochemical (PC) and electrochemical (EC) water splitting, a promising approach that consumes solar energy to produce hydrogen fuel directly.

Uniting computational and experimental approaches for precise, targeted, light-driven ion channel therapeutic innovation.

Recent research raises a question: is nuclear spin selectivity a consequence of spin selectivity of electron spin?

Halide perovskites (HPs) and their derivatives are emerging as a prominent class of materials for ionizing radiation detection.

Density functional theory (DFT) is the most widely and accepted model for calculating the electronic structure of physical systems, but practical applications rely on approximations to the (still) unknown exact exchange–correlation functional.

High-performance ferroelectric materials are pivotal to the operation of advanced technologies in sensing, data storage, and beyond.

Vibronic coupling-i.e. the interaction between molecular electronic states through the nuclear motion – is an ubiquitous phenomenon for molecular electronic spectra and dynamics in excited electronic states.

Playing with Marked Cards: ELF and NCI Analyses Unveil Where, When, and How Chemical Bonds Break and Form.

4-fold Dirac points. Weyl SM: 2-fold Weyl nodes with chirality & surface Fermi arcs. Nodal-line SM: band crossings form loops/lines, often with drumhead surface states; SOC may gap them.