Themed collection 2024 Frontier and Perspective articles

An overview of transition metal-based CORMs with cytotoxic properties is here reported.

Bismuth-based semiconductors possess promising optical and electrical properties, making them suitable for photoelectrochemical applications in marine engineering.

This review summarizes recent progress in organometallic molecular junctions.

Alpha-metalated N,N-dimethylbenzylamine rare-earth metal complexes have proven highly versatile for phosphine addition and dehydrogenative coupling reactions.

Mixed-anion coordination around Eu³⁺ ions affects the luminescence properties related to the 4f–4f and charge transfer transitions.

The preparation, heterostructure and application of hybrids containing layered double hydroxides as the main component are overviewed.

Plasma materials preparation technology can effectively affect the materials preparation processing by reactive species and multiple effects in plasma, which ensures it as a promising method for supercapacitor electrode mateirals preparation.

Polar cyano and their isomeric isocyano counterparts have attracted great attention as stimuli-responsive luminescent materials in recent years. This article reviewed their development from structural tailoring and self-assembly perspectives.

Metal dioxo chemistry and its diverse reactivity are presented with an emphasis on reaction mechanism.

This review highlights the recent progress in hydrogen production from methanol and formaldehyde over a wide range of molecular transition metal catalysts, with primary focus on the structure–activity relationship in the dehydrogenation pathway.

The Cu-phenolate complexes show various electronic structures, such as phenoxyl radical binding Cu^I complexes and Cu^IV–phenolate species in the formal oxidation state, which give rise to characteristic properties and reactivities of the complexes.

The reactions of open-cage fullerenes with various metal complexes show a remarkable range of unanticipated behaviors, which are compared to the corresponding reactions with intact fullerenes.

Bacterial infections can lead to the development of large-scale outbreaks of diseases that pose a serious threat to human life and health.

Silver clusters composed exclusively of fused tetrahedra are analogous to simple saturated organic compounds. Copper clusters with central cuboctahedra and silver clusters with central icosahedra having interstitial metal atoms provide examples of metal superatoms.

The coordination of small molecules to low valent titanium complexes provides a powerful platform for the transformation of challenging substrates either through PCET reactions or bond-weakening induced by π-back donation of electrons from Ti.

A comprehensive review by summarizing the fundamental concepts in the field of ZABs and the recent advances in the reported NBM SACs is organized.

This review focuses on the latest developments in luminescent lanthanide-based molecular materials as photosensitizers and their applications in photodynamic therapy.

Herein we contrast the growingly endorsed naming of supramolecular interactions according to the electrophilic atom with deeper and long-lasting discussion about fundamental aspects of bonding. The new nomenclature as a whole is put in question.

The activation of C–H bonds by heterobimetallic compounds is a rich area of research that has recently received increased attention. This perspective highlights recent advances and aims to guide the reader in this rapidly evolving field.

Typical nanoparticles functionalized by DNA (e.g. AuNPs, UCNPs, MOFs, MONPs and QDs).

This perspective highlights the potential of gold(II) complexes in catalysis, shedding light on the pivotal roles played by mononuclear and dinuclear gold(II) complexes, whether as isolated entities or proposed intermediates, in catalytic reactions.

Morphology of MXene-based composites in the form of MXene/0D, 1D and 2D structures and their enhanced physicochemical properties thereof.

This review summarizes various syntheses and structural characterization of metal sulfide/polysulfide intercalated LDHs and their sorption properties with mechanisms for various chemically toxic inorganic species (heavy metal cations and oxo-anions).

Exploring the influence of different reducing agents and their corresponding reaction conditions on the synthesis of copper nanoclusters, this study aims to provide valuable insights that can steer future research efforts in this field.

This article describes solid-state excimer-emitting materials based on aryl-modified o-carborane derivatives. Recent progress in stimuli-responsive materials with solid-state excimer emission based on modified o-carboranes is explained.

This article surveys the recent frontier advancements in layered metal oxide (LMO)–based catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The design rationales, mechanism, and future perspectives of LMOs for efficient OER catalysis are delineated.

This Frontier highlights the recent progress in the synthesis of MOF-derived LDH electrode materials, including pristine LDH powders, LDH composites and LDH-based arrays, and their applications in SCs.

The synthetic strategies employed to isolate monomeric stibinidene chalcogenides (RSbCh) and monomeric stibine chalcogenides (R₃SbCh) are discussed, and a perspective on the outcomes and future directions of this exciting area is provided.

This Frontier presents a comprehensive overview of the moisture-sensitive mechanism of organolead halide perovskites and the enhancement strategies for their structural stability and photocatalytic performance.

The covalent, post-synthesis modification of metal–organic frameworks is an efficient strategy for producing complex pore environments, bringing us closer to the goal of constructing enzyme-like catalysts.

Lanthanoid oxysulphides exhibit great versatility in their chemical compositions which allow for their optoelectronic properties to be tuned by the relative amounts of oxygen and sulphur present in their crystal structures.

This Frontier article highlights the advancements in POM-based reticular materials for proton conduction and offers insights into the future development of advanced proton conductors for emerging technologies.

A more significant percentage of reactive radicals are produced via piezo-photocatalysis associated with vibrational energy for CO₂ reduction than those produced by photocatalysis.

Magnetic anisotropy and spin–phonon coupling are key properties of single-molecule magnets. The use of far-IR and Raman magneto-spectroscopies (FIRMS and RaMS), and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) to determine the magnetic properties is highlighted.

This paper summarizes five strategies for improving the activity and stability of transition metal sulfide self-supported electrodes. The key problems and challenges for the future development of electrocatalysts for the HER are also presented.

This frontier presents Ln-based POMs in photoluminescence applications, focusing mainly on multi-color emission, fluorescent probes, fluorescent switch, drug activity, biomedical imaging, pH sensing and temperature sensing.

This article focuses on elucidating the fabrication and design of metal-organic framework derived metal-carbon nanostructures for oxygen evolution. It is categorized into three following topics: MOF selection, metal introduction and carbon structure.

Rare-earth (RE) metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) offer unique optical, electronic, and magnetic properties.

Constructing a nickel based hierarchical structure is one of the important strategies for achieving high current density oxygen evolution reactions.

Metal-linker bonds serve as the “glue” that binds metal ions to multitopic organic ligands in the porous materials known as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs).

This review article explores the different coordination modes of N₂P₂ ligands and highlights the resulting complexes’ reactivity and catalytic abilities.

A comprehensive review regarding the design and application of various Ni-based electrocatalyst toward OER with large current densities is organized.

This Frontier article highlights the scope and limitations of DFT in interpreting structures and spectra of lanthanide complexes, elucidating periodic trends, and predicting their properties and reactivity, presented through selected examples.

Recent progress in luminescent metal–organic frameworks for detecting ions, volatile organic compounds, biomolecules and environmental toxins and device fabrication has been reviewed.

A discussion of the nature of homometallic alkaline earth bonding is presented, recent synthetic advances are described, and future directions are considered.

With the advent of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), the selection and application of electrode materials have been the subject of much discussion and study.