Due to sulfur agglomeration and drastic volume expansion during charging, a significant challenge for lithium–sulfur battery applications is to achieve favorable energy densities while realizing substantial sulfur loading.
Self-assembling cyclic peptides (CP) consisting of amino acids with alternating D- and L-chirality form nanotubes by hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interactions, and π–π stacking in solution.
A new organic dication, phenylene-bridged bis(benzimidazolium), catalyses the photochemical decarboxylative hydroxylation and dimerisation of carboxylic acids.
Optically-active nanocrystals (such as quantum dots and plasmonic noble metal nanoparticles) have received great attention due to their size-tunable optical properties.
The Lewis structures arise naturally as attractors of the all-electron probability density |Ψ|2.