Themed collection In celebration of the Lunar New Year, 2025

Developments and prospects for solid oxide cells using a perovskite-based fuel electrode for CO₂ electrolysis to CO.

In this perspective, we have discussed the recent progress of flexible HOFs, with particular focus on various dynamic behaviors and their applications in different fields. Finally, the current challenges and opportunities in this field are discussed.

In this perspective, the progress in ion-regulated organic RTP materials and described the roles of ions, including ion–π interactions, electrostatic interactions, and coordinate interactions, have been summarized.

Combining organic crystals and polymers results in a new class of all-organic, lightweight, flexible materials with unprecedented mechanical robustness, resilience, and diversity in combination with other functional materials.

Single-cell dynamics study enables to reveal cell heterogeneity in fundamental mechanisms governing cell behavior. This review provides an overview of the time-resolved single-cell transcriptomic sequencing methodologies and applications.

The study discussed how MOFs treat microplastics, how to make plastic-based MOFs, and how MOF@plastic composites can be used. It aids in understanding how to convert plastic/microplastic concerns into opportunities for high-valued products.

This review covers the recent advances in flexible piezoelectric materials, which show great potential for strain sensors in wearable electronics and artificial intelligence, focusing on microstructure engineering and fabrication techniques.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been developed as a potential cancer treatment approach owing to its non-invasiveness, spatiotemporal control and limited side effects.

This review summarizes the progress on the cycling stability of manganese-based zinc-ion batteries.

Recent progress of preparation approaches for HCs is systematically overviewed, with a special focus on the comparison between traditional fabrication methods and advanced strategies regarding their influence on performance.

This review systematically introduces how to regulate the electronic structure and geometric configuration of atomic catalysts to achieve high-efficiency electrocatalysis performances by analyzing detailed electrocatalytic applications and mechanisms.

Through the purposeful modulation of specific parts or regions of TMD molecules, molecular modulation strategies aim to realize the effective modulation of TMDs' properties from an ‘internal’ perspective.

This review highlights the design and synthesis of water-stable MOFs, as well as their applications in carbon capture.

Two nanometer-sized, nitrogen-containing molecular cylinders were synthesized by connecting the cycloparaphenylene and fused aromatic moieties using cyclocondensation reaction.

We proposed the ‘Fragment Complementary Activation Strategy’ (FCAS) based on the CRISPR/Cas12a system and designed fragment activators consisting of ssDNA and miRNA targets, enabling the direct detection of miRNAs.

Modular cobalt-catalyzed conformationally restricted alkylarylation enables the divergent synthesis of Csp³-rich N-hetero(spiro)cycles (>70 examples, >20 : 1 dr).

Hetero-epitaxially grown Li₂WO₄ surface induced slightly Li-enriched chemistry was adopted to boost the stability of LiNi_0.5Mn_0.5O₂ under extreme conditions.

A novel palladium-catalyzed strategy was employed to achieve higher-order (4 + 3) cycloadditions of bicyclobutanes with various 2-alkylidenetrimethylene carbonates to synthesize 2-oxabicyclo[4.1.1]octanes.

An active ligand space catalyst screening strategy based on a metal–phosphine ligand catalyst database (MPCD) helps to discover the cost-effective P-ligand for C–C cross-coupling reactions with inert aryl chloride.

This work proposes a film-forming Lewis acid additive to promote the in situ polymerization of 1,3-dioxane and the formation of a fluorine/boron rich interface, which enhance the cycling stability of lithium metal batteries.

Ultrafine MoC nanocrystals are confined within the MOF-derived NC matrix to generating NC/MoC. The NC/MoC based electrode achieves high CDI performance.

The natural sunlight is for the first time used to acquire the key of nuclear energy, uranium, from natural seawater with an ultrahigh extraction efficiency of 6.9 mg g⁻¹ day⁻¹ upon a novel COF photocatalyst with ultralow exciton binding energy.

Ferrocene correlates with ferroptosis: multiple approaches to explore ferrocene-appended GPX4 inhibitors as dual-function ferroptosis inducers, which consummate the potential of ferrocene in ferroptosis-targeted drug development.

Cations at interfaces can tune the structure and the connectivity of hydrogen bond networks in electric double layers.

The first selenite fluorosilicate, Pb₂(SeO₃)(SiF₆), modified with perfluorinated groups, features a broad transparency range, large birefringence, high LIDT, and excellent environmental stability, marking it a potential birefringent material.

Nafion introduced into an aqueous electrolyte activates a thermodynamically ultrastable Zn/electrolyte interface, which guides the directional Zn²⁺ electrodeposition along the (002) crystal surface for a dendrite-free Zn metal anode.

Novel freestanding M-PtBiMo IMSs were achieved via a simple and effective one-step wet chemical method. The M-PtBiMo IMSs as highly efficient anode electrocatalysts boosted the activity and stability toward the EGOR and actual DEGFCs.

We designed a covalent organic framework (TA-PTO-COF) as a dual-active-center cathode. This work presents a promising organic cathode material for a high-performance aqueous zinc-ion battery.

The utilization of multi-site modifications brings about the manipulation of excited-state processes and multi-stimuli responses of salicylaldehyde Schiff base isomers, which can be successfully applied in multi-level decryption.

This study presents a new type of boron carrier for boron neutron capture therapy that integrates imaging, a lung cancer targeting drug and carborane, and showcases an impressive therapeutic efficacy against lung tumors both in vitro and in vivo.

A new series of perovskitoids were fabricated based on halogen engineering and a rigid and flexible ligand, and exhibit a multi-color afterglow covering nearly the whole visible region from cyan to red.

N₃,O-calix[2]arene[2]triazines, whose inherent chirality arises from one different heteroatom linkage, were synthesized enantioselectively in ee up to 95% from macrocyclization via chiral monophosphoric acid-catalyzed intramolecular S_NAr reaction.

A reductive and denitrative amination of nitroarenes has been developed, allowing the highly selective synthesis of various di- and triarylamines. The protocol employed synthetically upstream nitroarenes as both the electrophiles and amine sources.

Despite theoretical difficulties, we herein for the first time demonstrate an effective concept for the synthesis of an orange-red multiple resonance (MR) emitter centered on a pyridine ring via stereo effects.

The new zirconium fluoride, K₃Ba₂Zr₆F₃₁, is reported, featuring unprecedented acentric cis-[Zr₆F₃₄]¹⁰⁻ clusters composed of ZrF₈ units, which display a moderate second-harmonic generation response (0.5 × KH₂PO₄) and short UV cutoff edge (below 200 nm).

We present an efficient method for the transformation of type II photosensitizers (¹O₂) into type I photosensitizers (O₂^˙−) through the implementation of an artificial light-harvesting system involving a two-step sequential energy transfer process.