Institute of Chemistry

Scalable Patterning of Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Logic Gates and Neuromorphic Computing

ABSTRACT Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are promising building blocks for bioelectronics owing to their efficient ion–electron coupling, soft‐material compatibility and high transconductance. However, their large off‐state currents and poor scalability have so far li...

A Transferable Descriptor for Accurate Prediction of Excitonic Couplings in A-D-A Organic Photovoltaic Acceptors

Abstract Exciton diffusion length (LD) is a key parameter determining the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs), yet its fast and accurate calculation is computationally challenging due to thin-film structural disorder and the long-range nature of excitonic co...

Directional Nanoparticle Migration Driven by Mobility Gradient in Glassy Polymers

Abstract How to precisely control the distribution of nanoparticles in a polymer matrix is a long-standing issue in polymer nanocomposites. In this work, we introduce a simple yet effective methodology to generate surface concentration gradients of nanoparticles in polymer films....

Mechanochemical Engineered Sulfur Copolymers Onto Group 13 and Related Fillers Through Lewis Acid‐Base Pairing

ABSTRACT Group 13 and related fillers are cornerstone components for advanced composites, yet their severe interfacial incompatibility with organic matrices inherently limits their practical efficacy. Conventional surface modification strategies remain fundamentally constrained b...

Enantioselective Synthesis of Axially Chiral Tetraphenylethenes via NHC-Catalyzed Desymmetrization and Following Kinetic Resolution

Abstract Herein, we report an efficient method for the enantioselective construction of axially chiral tetraphenylethylene (TPE) via N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-catalyzed desymmetrization of prochiral isophthalaldehyde-derived TPEs. Both aliphatic alcohols and phenols were well-...

Formation of Carbonisocyanatidic Amide in Interstellar Ice Analogs as a Candidate Precursor to Prebiotic Pyrimidines

Abstract Understanding how pyrimidine nucleobases form in space is central to prebiotic chemistry, yet the pathways assembling these heterocycles remain unresolved. Carbonisocyanatidic amide (H2NC(O)NCO), an acyclic intermediate with heteroatom connectivity relevant to uracil and...

Water‐Mediated Reversible Crystalline Phase Transformation Enables Color Switching and Circularly Polarized Luminescence Handedness Inversion

ABSTRACT Stimuli‐responsive circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) modulation is highly sought for adaptive chiroptical systems, yet achieving reversible CPL handedness inversion in crystalline solids remains challenging. Here, we report organic ionic crystals composed of lumine...

Strengthening Constitutive Motifs in Isotropic Fibrous Hydrogel for Exceptional Damage Resistance

ABSTRACT Super damage resistance requires high fracture energy in all directions, therefore, although fibrous hydrogels have demonstrated impressive reinforcing effects, their anisotropic nature usually prevents them from performing well. In this work, we propose a strategy to re...

Calcium dysregulation in synergy with sonodynamic therapy via medroxyprogesterone-targeted and ROS-responsive nanoparticles for endometrial cancer

Effective therapies that enable precise drug delivery and integrated monitoring are urgently needed for fertility-sparing management of endometrial cancer (EC). Although calcium channel blockers (CCBs) exhibit anti-proliferative potential in EC, their poor tumor selectivity and s...

Robust 4f-2p-3d electron ladder for boosting the stability of oxygen electrocatalysis

Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are recognized as the core bifunctional catalytic processes in metal-air batteries, yet their inferior stability severely limits the large-scale deployment of these frontier devices. For resolving it, a bifunctio...

Corrosion inhibition driven by double-bridged-oxygen compact metaphosphate networks in KZnP3O9

Developing corrosion inhibitors with ultrahigh performance and elucidating the atomic-scale mechanisms underlying their corrosion resistance are critical to both engineering and scientific communities. Herein, we report KZnP3O9 crystal and glass corrosion inhibitors for the corro...

Coordinative chain transfer homopolymerization and copolymerization of bio‐sourced β ‐myrcene and butadiene promoted by iminopyridine iron complexes

Abstract A family of iron complexes bearing iminopyridine (ImPy) ligands with systematic variations on the N ‐aryl and pyridine moieties was evaluated as pre‐catalysts for the coordinative polymerization of β‐myrcene and butadiene. Upon activation with Al i Bu 3 and trityl borate...