Themed collection In celebration of Chinese New Year, 2022

Abnormal proteins, influenced by reactive oxygen species (ROS), are directly related to the development of various diseases.

This review summarizes comprehensively the latest methods of synthesizing MOFs/graphene and their derivatives, and their application in energy storage and conversion with a detailed analysis of the structure–property relationship.

A molecular dynamometer is designed to analyze the variation of sub-piconewton interaction between a specific protein and the membrane on living cells.

The electron-withdrawing group at the meso-position of Thio-Cy5 could dramatically reduce the singlet–triplet energy gap, and speed up the intersystem crossing process.

DeepLigBuilder, a novel deep generative model for structure-based de novo drug design, directly generates 3D structures of drug-like compounds in the target binding site.

A convenient method for constructing water-stable hydrazone-linked porous organic cages (POCs) with tunable structures has been reported, and such POCs can be used as robust adsorbents for effective removal of various pollutants from water.

This work tracked at the atomic scale the interfacial reaction induced strong metal–support interaction between SiO₂ and metal catalysts and evolution under reactive conditions by aberration-corrected environmental transmission electron microscopy.

We developed a capability of a monolayer of bioluminescent (BL) bacteria for spatiotemporally visualizing the heterogeneous distribution of interfacial oxygen concentration, resulting in the discovery of spontaneous and stochastic oxygen waves.

Quasi-square cadmium hydroxide nanocrystals (Cdhy-QS) showed outstanding performance for electroreduction CO₂ to CO.

A photo-responsive ruthenium complex-derived micelle (CC5-RuCa) loaded with CC5 was prepared for light and tumor microenvironment-controlled multistage drug-release.

Chirality is one of the most important types of steric information in nature.

Stereolabile pillar[5]arene derivatives, which are dynamic racemic mixtures in solution on account of their low inversion barriers, were employed as platforms to study chiral symmetry breaking during crystallisation.

A Cell Endocytosis-Activated Fluorescent (CEAF) probe triggered by disaggregation and protonation is designed for high contrast in vivo bioimaging and diagnostics in the second near-infrared window (1000–1700 nm).

An organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite Trimethylchloromethylammonium chromium(II) chloride (TMCM–CrCl₃) can simultaneously show excellent ferroelectricity and antiferromagnetism, which is the first experimentally confirmed Cr²⁺-based multiferroic material.

We report the design of a new class of fused heterocyclic alkynyl ligand-containing gold(III) complexes, which shows tunable emission colors spanning yellow to red region and exhibits thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) properties.

An unprecedented tetrafluoroborate-based perovskite reveals the coexistence of ferroelastic and ferroelectric transitions arising from delicate interplay between stepwise frozen organic cations and cooperative deformation of the framework.

The sodium form of silicoaluminophosphate RHO zeolite exhibits a pronounced cation-tailored “trapdoor” effect, showing an unprecedented selectivity adsorption separation performance for CO₂/CH₄ and CO₂/N₂.

Molecular dynamics simulations were used to simulate the molecular conformation and interaction between hosts and guests. This work provides a new concept for the study of molecular packing for the investigation of the luminescence mechanism.

Two anthracene diimide (ADI) polymers with the backbone conformational isomerism, new members of aromatic diimide polymers family, have been synthesized as a class of highly promising n-type semiconductors for organic electronics.

A pH-responsive multifunctional nanosystem was synthesized by loading glucose oxidase (GOD) onto CuFe-layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanosheets, which exhibited synchronous acid-enhanced/responsive photothermal and chemodynamic synergistic therapy.