Themed collection 2025 Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers HOT articles

We summarize the design strategies for improving the ECL of metal nanoclusters, including 1. aggregation-induced emission; 2. anodic pre-oxidation; 3. aggregation-induced self-loading; 4. Anionic substitution; 5. ion doping; 6. valence engineering.

This summary describes and elucidates an enhanced strategy for photocatalytic nitrogen fixation over Bi₂MO₆ (M = Mo, W)-based catalysts and points out the development prospects of photocatalytic nitrogen fixation.

This work reviews selenoborates, categorizing them by structure, synthesis methods, and highlighting their bandgaps, nonlinear optical properties, and potential as IR functional materials.

In this review, we have highlighted computational studies on actinide-based mononuclear single-molecule magnets, focusing on compounds containing the elements U, Np, Pu, and Cf.

Ti₃C₂/TiO₂ and C@TiO₂ based composites for photocatalytic applications.

CoFePv with phosphorus vacancies (Pv) was prepared via Ar plasma-assisted phosphidation. CoFePv and its reconstructed CoFeOOH-PO₄³⁻ serve as active species for the HER and the OER, demonstrating excellent catalytic performance and stability.

Heavy atom engineering of Ru(II) complex based sonosensitizers for in vitro and in vivo antifungal therapy.

Design of 3D metal-porphyrin-based COFs with Co–N₄ sites as highly efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for the ORR and OER.

Combined machine-learning with experimental evaluations, the thermal conductivities in IR nonlinear optical chalcogenides Li_xAg_1−xGa_yIn_1−ySe₂ series are investigated, and three compositions exhibit balanced properties.

A strategy assisted by crystal growth modifiers (CGMs) has been proposed to effectively customize the morphology of TS-1 zeolites, enhancing their selectivity and activity in targeted catalytic reactions.

This work constructed a versatile platform labeled as ZTBH using a post-ligand modification approach, thereby enabling two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging-guided photodynamic therapy.

A novel Eu-based chalcogenide, β-EuZnGeS₄, has been designed using an isovalent cation substitution strategy, starting from the centrosymmetric Eu₂GeS₄, and it demonstrates well-balanced IR NLO performance.

Four novel crystals of the RE(III)–Te(IV)–B–O system (β-LaTeBO₅ and RETeBO₅ (RE = Y, Gd, Tb)) have been obtained, which exhibit wide transparency (0.4–6.5 μm), large birefringence and high thermal stability.

An energy transfer-based full-spectrum ML construction approach simplifies the design of multifunctional sensors and helps achieve long-range dual-mode sensing.

Rh/TiO₂/Ti exhibits remarkable HER performances due to the nanoarray structure, surface roughness, and optimized absorption energy and metal–support interaction.

The artificially constructed porous layered basic zinc acetate nanosheets can effectively reduce the electric field's tip effect and hydrogen evolution reaction, leading to uniform Zn nucleation and deposition.

The switching from fluorescence (Fl)–phosphorescence (Ph) co-dominant emission to thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) triggered by crystallization significantly improves the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of Ag₁₄ nanoclusters.

Cage orbital distributions well determine the metal positions in all actinide mono-metallofullerenes and are more effective than the widely used electrostatic potentials due to the strong metal–cage covalency.

A cholic acid-modified ruthenium(II) (Ru1) photosensitizer was synthesized. Ru1 induced pyroptosis and sequentially engaged the downstream proteins p-TBK1 and p-IRF3 within the STING pathway, thus promoting the elicitation of tumor immune responses.

Iridium(III) 2-cyanobenzothiazole complexes were designed as N-terminal cysteine-specific labels to prepare peptide-based phosphorogenic probes and hydrogels for matrix metalloproteinase-2/9 sensing, cancer imaging and photocytotoxic applications.

Pre-construction of the Co/CoO@C heterostructure to achieve the precise synthesis of the Co₂P/CoP@C heterostructure based on the oxygen-coordinated MOF membrane for water electrolysis.

Self-supporting layers containing high-entropy materials (HEMs) with adsorption–catalytic-conversion integrated functions were designed and synthesized for the first time for separator modification of Zn–I₂ batteries.

A series of trigonal antiprismatic (aTPR) mononuclear Cr(II) complexes were prepared and magnetically studied, which suggested that the aTPR configuration is advantageous for facilitating spin crossover, while the dynamics of spin transitions are closely linked to the structural distortions.