Themed collection 2022 Emerging Investigators

This profile article showcases the researchers who have contributed an article to the 2022 Emerging Investigators collection.

Antimonene is considered one of the most promising 2D materials for a large number of applications, ranging from optoelectronics or energy storage to biomedicine. This review discusses recent advances in its synthesis methods, characterization, properties, and applications.

The organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) is one of the most versatile bioelectronic devices. This review is a guide for how to characterize OECTs and monitor the mixed charge transport and swelling properties of the OECT channel materials.

Different bio-inspired liquid wettability are derived through modulation of chemistry and topography—but the chemical modulation process emerged as a superior approach for embedding desired wettability and other relevant physical properties.

This review systematically summarizes the research status, challenges, prospects, and potential bench-to-bedside translation of minimally invasive nanomedicines.

The review summarizes the recent progress on manganese-catalyzed (de)hydrogenation and hydroelementation reactions. It provides a complete and critical analysis of ligand design, reaction pathways, and synthetic applications.

Recent advances in particulate photocatalytic water splitting are reviewed and the pioneering works in scalable H₂ evolution via photocatalytic OWS are presented.

The review focuses on the recent developments on diverse sets of complex enzymatic transformations by utilizing minimal peptide based self-assembled systems. It further attempts to provide a broad perspective for potentially programming functionality via rational selection of amino acid sequences, leading towards minimal catalytic systems that emulate some advanced traits of contemporary enzymes.

This review summarized the progression of AIEgen-based photo-driven theranostics emphasizing on design strategies for efficient photosensitization, photothermal conversion and multimodal functionalities by adjusting the excited energy dissipation.

Organic–inorganic hybrid polyoxometalates are versatile building blocks for the self-assembly of functional supramolecular materials.

Recent advances in heterometallic clusters with f-block metal–metal bonds were introduced from the standpoint of synthetic methods, and the corresponding reactivity and applications were also summarized.

This tutorial review summarizes the recent progress of SERDs and their mechanism of action in the broader context of targeted protein degradation.

Medicinal inorganic chemistry is a burgeoning subfield of medicinal chemistry that focuses on the development of metal-based diagnostic and therapeutic agents.

In this review we provide an overview of the current knowledge on lanthanide upconversion materials co-doped with transition metals. We focus on how the co-dopants affect the host lattice and the energy transfer processes.

This Tutorial Review discusses the principles and techniques behind the design, characterisation and applications of metallosupramolecular cages.

The unique response of microgels to force can be measured by AFM, tailored by synthesis, and used for activating functionality.

This tutorial review introduces basics and recent advances of low-power-threshold nonlinear photochromic materials. We attempt to provide an intuitive understanding of incoherent nonlinear optical processes using fundamental concepts.

This review uses catalytic hydrogenation and dehydrogenation processes as a platform to compare metal–ligand cooperativity and metal–metal cooperativity as strategies in catalysis.

This tutorial review showcases recent (2015–2021) work describing ligand construction as it relates to the design of secondary coordination spheres (SCSs).