Themed collection 2025 Frontier and Perspective articles

This perspective summarizes the research progress in molecular materials with magnetoelectric coupling properties at room temperature and low field. The goal is to promote the design and synthesis of these materials.

A concise review is presented on MOF–clay composites, which have recently emerged as a new class of functional composites with enhanced properties and applications.

This review covers the synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of bicyclic(alkyl)(amino)carbenes (BICAACs) and outlines the diverse applications of BICAACs in organometallic chemistry, metal-free catalysis, and main-group chemistry.

Metal complex-based probes enable μM- to nM-level Cl⁻ detection with high selectivity via coordination, H-bonding, electrostatic interactions and more, using techniques such as UV-visible absorption, luminescence, electrochemistry, and ¹H NMR.

The development of the trinuclear platinum(II) complex BBR3464 (also known as triplatin) in the late 1990s was meant to be a revolution in the field of platinum chemotherapy.

A concise overview of multifunctional applications of proton-conducting lanthanide MOFs.

Recent progress in crystalline naphthalenediimide/perylenediimide-based hybrid materials for heterogeneous photocatalytic organic transformation has been reviewed.

Prochloron didemni, an obligate symbiont of certain ascidians (sea squirts found in tropical areas), produces various cyclic peptides in large quantities, and their copper coordination chemistry is shown to be related to their biological funcion.

This review focuses on the recent development of aptasensors based on metal–organic frameworks and their hybrid materials.

This article focuses on the recent advancements in the synthesis of borophene-based materials and their emerging applications in the field of supercapacitors.

This article focuses on unimolecular white-light-emitting metal complexes and classifies them according to the nature of their luminescent electronic states and the current status of their synthesis and application in WOLEDs.

Cocrystallization can change the molecular composition and crystal structure of cyclo-N₅⁻ species to increase its decomposition temperature, density, and energy, and reduce its sensitivity.