Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Biopolymer Silica Hybrids as Superior Nanocarriers for Anticancer Drug Delivery

Abstract Liposomal carriers are widely used for anticancer drug delivery due to their biocompatible nature in the biological milieu. Liposome-based drugs often face premature leakage, uncontrolled release, and insufficient control over long-term drug availability. Here, we presen...

Automated Spin‐Assisted Layer‐by‐Layer Epitaxy Produces Highly Oriented Mixed‐Linker MOF Thin Films

ABSTRACT Control over crystallographic orientation in metal‐organic framework (MOF) thin films is crucial for exploiting their anisotropic properties in sensing, catalysis, and separation. Achieving reproducible, highly oriented films remains challenging, especially for mixed‐lin...

Lead-free Cs2MH6 (M = Ge, Sn) vacancy-ordered double perovskites for optoelectronic applications: a first-principles study

Abstract Lead-free vacancy-ordered double perovskite hydrides are gaining attention as environmentally friendly materials for next-generation optoelectronic applications. In this work, first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations are employed to systematically in...

A Ni(II) PNP pincer complex immobilized on SBA-15 as catalyst for the 4-nitrophenol hydrogenation

Abstract The Ni(II) complex [NiCl(bda)]+ containing the aliphatic PNP pincer ligand bis((2-diphenylphosphino)ethyl)amine (bda) was covalently immobilized on the mesoporous silica SBA-15. SBA-15 was functionalized with (3-chloropropyl)triethoxysilane as an anchoring agent, which w...

Electroreduction of Activated Esters Catalyzed bya Manganese Complex

Abstract Electrochemical hydrogenation (electrohydrogenation) using electrons and protons as H2 surrogates offers a sustainable alternative to conventional reduction methods. Herein, we report the manganese-catalyzed electroreduction of activated esters employing a derivative of...

Chemical Stabilizationand Transformation of SchiffBase Scaffold: A Path toward Superior Platinum-Based Anti-Cancer StemCell Drugs

Abstract The clinical application of platinum-based anticancer agents is limited by poor aqueous stability, low solubility, and dose-limiting toxicities. Here, we report two Pt(II) complexes based on a Schiff base ligand and its reduced imine derivative, designed to overcome thes...