Themed collection 2025 Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Review-type Articles

This review article focuses on current achievements and identifies future research directions by designing biomimetic catalytic systems for CO₂ reduction to formate using NAD(P)H.

We review the latest developments in scintillator materials for X-ray detection thoroughly, including perovskites, nano-clusters, organic and rare-earth-doped compounds and specialized structures, and provide an in-depth insight for future prospects.

This review comprehensively analyzes recent advances in metal complexes that not only impede the growth of cancer cells but also target altered metabolic pathways and induce immune response in resistant tumours.

The authors summarize recent research progress on pristine MOFs and their derivatives for high-performance AZIBs and discuss the energy storage mechanisms.

This review summarized the methods for synthesizing MoS₂-based nanomaterials and their application in capacitive deionization.

This review summarizes the reported iminophosphonamide complexes of s-block, p-block, transition and f-block metals. Furthermore, the recent development in the field of chiral iminophosphonamide metal complexes is also discussed.

This review offers an overview of recent advancements in novel multi-component chalcogenidometalates, emphasizing the intrinsic relationships between composition, structure, and photocurrent properties.

Summary of MOF-based aqueous zinc-ion battery electrode materials design strategies.

Selected studies carried out in the field of protein metalation, where the structural information achieved by X-ray crystallography has been complemented by other biophysical techniques, are described.

Direct seawater electrolysis technology shows great potential, but chloride ions corrode the electrodes and cause competitive reactions, which limits its application.

MOF-derived carbons are a class of porous material that combine the stability of porous carbon with the functionality and versatility of MOFs. This review describes the systematic design, characterization, and application of these materials.

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

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

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 paper reviews the progress of defective Cu-based materials for eCO₂RR, highlights the design strategy for defect structure and emphasizes the mechanism of defect site on catalytic behaviors.

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.

Tumor hypoxia limits the efficacy of radiotherapy. Therefore, we used a low-toxicity catalyst with high Z-atoms to improve the efficacy of radiotherapy by generating oxygen through in situ electrocatalysis of tumour.