Themed collection Chemical Communications HOT articles 2025

This review explores the TE properties of graphene and strategies to enhance its performance. Nanostructuring and hybridization approaches are introduced to overcome its limitations, highlighting the potential for high-efficiency TE applications.

This Highlight presents an emerging strategy for methane photocatalytic oxidation using chlorine species, emphasizing their advantages and outlining future challenges.

The development and generation of affordable and highly efficient energy, particularly hydrogen, are one of the best approaches to address the challenges posed by the depletion of non-renewable energy sources.

This review introduces functional DNA applications in point-of-care diagnostics, highlighting its potential to revolutionize diagnostics, and explores synergies with emerging technologies like nanotechnology and artificial intelligence.

The present review primarily focuses on highlighting recent developments in the synthesis of H₂S-donating organic polysulfanes and their potential pharmacological implications for cancer.

Cavity-type zeolites or molecular sieves exhibit significant advantages in shape-selective catalysis, following the cavity-controlled catalytic principles, including molecular adsorption, diffusion, reaction, and deactivation processes.

This feature article presents cyclophane-based host–guest complexes for which electronic interactions between the host and guest molecules can modulate excited-state properties in an advanced way involving both singlet and triplet excited states.

A review of the state-of-the-art advances for upgrading ethanol to n-butanol via the Guerbet reaction catalyzed by molecular homogeneous complexes is provided here. Key advancements in catalyst design based on mechanistic understanding is discussed.

Wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells suffer from severe V_OC loss. The reported studies on reducing the V_OC deficit in terms of interface modification, charge transport layer engineering, and additive engineering are systematically reviewed.

Nanosizing boosts antimony's electrochemical performance in lithium-ion batteries by lowering phase transition energy barrier and entropy changes.

Ti₃C₂T_x (MXene) was coated with silver (Ag) nanoparticles using a bio-inspired surface coating method.

A platform of glass electrospray coupled with mass spectrometry is developed to rapidly detect living cells cultured on glass slides.

Herein we developed a NNO–Mn complex having a relatively low-congestion metal–ligand cooperative environment, one enabling the alkylation of bulky α-branched ketones with bulky alcohols via a chelation-asisted aldol process.

Owing to the strong chemical adsorbing and catalytic effect of HEO on polysulfide transformation, the HEO@S electrode exhibits excellent electrochemical performance.

Identification of U(IV), U(V) and U(VI) oxidation states in rocks can be achieved with HERFD-XRF imaging at the uranium M₄ edge.

We report a strategy to modulate the optical properties of xanthene-based fluorophores by manipulating their ring strain, which influences the rigidity and planarity of the conjugated structure, thereby impacting their optical characteristics.

Using hyperpolarized NMR with signal enhancements over 30 000, elusive pathways in furfural upgrading are clarified, revealing initial Baeyer–Villiger oxidation and subsequent epoxidation steps.

We report a novel guanidine quinolinyl entatic state model system with an electron transfer rate on the order of 10⁵ M⁻¹ s⁻¹ and remarkably little internal reorganization.

The positively charged sites resulting from electronic redistribution in the metal phosphate heterostructures lead to reduced energy barriers, demonstrating an effective strategy for OER catalysts with low overpotentials and remarkable stability.

Herein, a sulfonated ionomer with intrinsic microporosity was designed as a catalyst binder in a low-Pt-loaded fuel cell to achieve an obvious 57% reduction of local oxygen-transport resistance and a notable 47% improvement in power output.

Pd/S cooperative activation and catalytic transfer of Et3GeH.

Incorporating crown ether into Cu-based MOFs tailors the microenvironment at the electrolyte–catalyst interface, enhancing the Faradaic efficiency of the electrochemical CO₂ reduction reaction to ethylene (C₂H₄).

A novel terephthalate-based ionic liquid catalyst is promotes highly efficient neutral hydrolysis of PET without attendant catalyst inactivation or product contamination.

This work shows that perfluoro octane iodine can effectively inhibit iodide migration in Sn–Pb perovskite through halogen bonding, thus effectively improving the performance and stability of the devices.

An isostructural series of four annulated actinocene complexes, M(hdcCOT)₂ (M = Th, U, Np, Pu), are reported.

The first instance of an ammelide based metal organic framework has been successfully synthesized, exhibiting remarkable structural stability.

BaIrO₃ has unusual negative linear thermal expansion along IrO₆ trimers and effective zero volume expansion below 100 K. High-resolution neutron diffraction indicates that this is driven by rigid unit modes controlled by the trimer valence state.

CH₃SO₃ radicals represent the key intermediate for the formation of methanesulfonic acid (MSA) and SO₃ from the addition channel of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) oxidation in the atmosphere. HO₂ radicals are not a main H-atom donor for MSA production.

The chemoselective synthesis of trisubstituted alkenyl halides (Cl, Br, F, I) starting from ketones and aldehydes and lithium halocarbenoids is reported.

A high-coordination unsaturated ZnO catalyst in air treatment shows 42.6% ethanol dehydrogenation conversion, emphasizing the role of surface lattice oxygen.

Herein, we disclose the nickel-catalyzed reductive cyanation of alkenyl tosylates and triflates.

Water sorption isotherms of [Zn(tmz)₂]_n (MAF-7) were measured across a broad temperature range to evaluate its water sorption performance based on water uptake, sorption kinetics, recyclability, and regeneration temperature.

CaO captures CO₂ from pyrolysis, forming CaCO₃ that activates biochar via decomposition.

Three near-infrared red type I PSs (named TP1, TP2, and TP3) were synthesized by adjusting their electron acceptors. TP3 can achieve efficient PDT-based synergistic therapy in cells via glutathione depletion.

In situ, quantitative, selective, and sub-millisecond dynamic detection of the four primary ROS/RNS (ONOO⁻, H₂O₂, NO, and NO₂⁻) in individual phagolysosomes during sterilization of RAW 264.7 macrophages was achieved by SiC@Pt nanowire electrodes.