Themed collection 2020 Emerging Investigators

Chemical Society Reviews profiles the Emerging Investigators featured in the issue.

Converting toxic Cr(VI) to benign Cr(III) would offer a solution to decontaminate drinking water.

This review summarizes current advances in the rational design of fluorescence tools for monitoring and measuring autophagy.

Routes to diverse families of diazaphospholene hydride-transfer catalysts are reviewed, followed by an examination of various reactions catalyzed by these systems, including asymmetric variants.

This review surveys cellular and biomolecular methods to harvest f-block elements, emphasizing how recent characterization of lanthanide-utilizing bacteria is being translated into technologies to extract, separate, and sense these valuable elements.

This review comprehensively summarizes fundamentals and potential applications of molecular martensites – an emerging class of dynamic crystals for next-generation smart functional materials.

This review gives insight into the operational stability of perovskite solar cells and provides possible research direction for further improvement.

This review summarizes how Jablonski diagrams guide the design of advanced organic optical agents and improvement of disease phototheranostic efficacies.

Schematic diagram of theoretical models and applications of single atom catalysts. A review on the theoretical models, intrinsic properties, and the related application of SACs.

Biocatalytic methods for selective C–H oxyfunctionalization reactions are rapidly emerging and hold significant potential to streamline complex molecule synthesis. This review highlights key advances in this area developed within the past decade.

In this review, we focus on the contributions made to the bioelectronic field from various aspects of chemistry.

In the past 30 years, rare-earth metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been gaining attention owing to their diverse chemical structures, and tunable properties.

Metal anticancer agents are rapidly emerging as selective, potent therapeutics that exhibit anticancer activity by inducing endoplasmic reticulum stress.

This article introduces how various complex media impact the propulsion of micro/nanorobotics and highlights the emerging technological approaches to enhance the locomotion in complex environments toward practical medical applications in vivo.

Based on the challenges in single-mode phototherapy, this review summarizes the significant research progress in combinatorial strategies with phototherapy.

Copper catalysts enable cross-coupling reactions of unactivated alkyl electrophiles to generate C–C and C–X bonds.

This article provides a fundamental understanding of the physiology of body thermoregulation and the advances in thermoregulatory textile technologies, and a perspective on future textiles for personalized thermoregulation.

This tutorial review describes the fundamental principles and recent advances in developing small molecule-based therapeutics for disease-associated RNAs.

This review of thermodynamic and kinetic hydricity provides conceptual overviews, tutorials on how to determine hydricity both experimentally and computationally, and salient case studies.

The confluence of available membrane materials and the explorations into fluid behaviors have revolutionized liquid-based porous membranes, which deserve more attention.

Contrary to expectations, protic hydroxyanions show a surprisingly reliable facility to dimerize or oligomerize together by hydrogen bonding.

Characteristics of CSCs targeted for developing therapeutic and bio-imaging agents.

We review progress towards the programmable transport of droplets on surfaces together with its applications in chemistry and materials science.