Themed collection 2024 Materials Chemistry Frontiers HOT articles

This review highlights advancements in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of ladder-like polysilsesquioxane (LPSQ). Emphasizing its double-stranded structure, and superior properties, it shows LPSQ's role in hybrid materials.

Recent advances in designing and preparing single atom-decorated transition metal oxide-based OER electrocatalysts are summarized in terms of synthetic methods and intrinsic nature to enhance the OER.

This review summarizes recent advances in heterojunction-type catalysts for CO₂-HCOOX interconversion under different driving forces, focusing on rectifying effects at the interface and the potential for developing heterojunction-based catalysts for practical applications.

Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) shows great promising in thermoelectric field owing to its simple preparation, good stability and adjustable conductivity. Here the research progress of P3HT in thermoelectric field in recent years is reviewed.

2D organic semiconductor crystals have the advantage of ultrathin thickness, long-range ordered molecular structures, the absence of grain boundaries, and low defect and impurity densities. They are of great significance for preparing high-performance OFET devices.

This review systematically explores various strategies aimed at enhancing charge transfer at different levels—bulk, surface, and interfaces of hematite. The examination encompasses diverse approaches, and assesses their impact on mitigating the identified issues.

This review focus on the key interfaces of LLZO-based solid-state lithium metal batteries. The main challenges and corresponding strategies for interface optimization are thoroughly covered.

Emerging TEM techniques are reviewed to address challenges in three stages of electrocatalysts from synthesis, function to deactivation, offering solutions for structural characterization for different needs.

MXene-based stimuli-responsive hydrogels have emerged as a new class of smart soft materials and have shown great potential in various applications such as sensing, biomedicine, actuators and energy-related applications.

Challenges in the commercialization of all solid-state and next-generation batteries including strategies, key points, and application of solid-state batteries.

We provide a comprehensive review of the latest research progress and challenges associated with various tandem solar cells based on lead chalcogenide (PbX, X = S, Se) quantum dot (QD) materials (including QD/QD, organic/QD, and perovskite/QD).

Recent advances in the design strategy, healing mechanism, and potential applications of mechanically robust self-healing PU elastomers.

This work describes recent developments in near-infrared (NIR) organic light-emitting diode (OLED) emitters. We discuss applications of NIR OLEDs as well as various groups of highly luminescent materials used in the OLED emissive layer.

Nanozymes could mimic the catalytic activity of natural enzymes, then stimulate the Fenton reaction for reactive oxygen species overproduction and lipid peroxidation, ultimately induce ferroptosis to exert anticancer effects.

Amorphous inorganics have attracted much attention because of their long-range disordered structure with advantageous functional properties.

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with permanent porosity, long-range order and rigid backbones offer a promising material platform for photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production.

Solid-state composite electrolytes bridge the gap between solid-state polymer electrolytes and solid-state inorganic electrolytes, which play an important role in developing the expected solid-state Li-ion batteries.

Inhibiting lithium dendrite is a big challenge for developing lithium metal batteries. The work reviews possible mechanisms of lithium dendrite growth, discuses effective strategies for inhibiting lithium dendrites and proposes future direction.

Solid electrolytes are expected to fundamentally replace liquid electrolytes due to their high safety and energy density.

Under high pressure, PTZ-DP-F with ax-conformation exhibited rarely pressure-induced emission enhancement, while eq-conformation showed quenched emission, revealing that molecular conformation significantly influences their photophysical properties.

An efficient strategy for separation of xylene isomers in both vapor and liquid phases based on nonporous adaptive crystals of hybrid[3]arene is developed, showing good performance and high recyclability for separation of o-xylene, providing a new method for separation of xylene isomers.

We rationalized the predominance of photoinduced electron transfer in quenching the fluorescence of tetrazine-based near-infrared fluorogenic labels.

Ni-phthalocyanine-based covalent-organic framework linked by imidazole group exhibits brilliant stability and high activity of CO₂ electroreduction reaction with over 90% CO Faradic efficiency in full pH range.