The development of lead-less perovskite materials for the photovoltaic application by Chen, Yan

“…In these two lead-free perovskite systems, various inorganic or small organic cations were utilized in combination with the lead-free metallic cations and iodic anions to selectively tailor the crystal structure, band edge position, and ambient and thermal stabilities of the resulting perovskites. …”
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Electrochemical supercapacitors: from mechanism understanding to multifunctional applications by Chen, Jingwei, Lee, Pooi See

“…The full mechanistic understanding of SCs based on different electrode materials has not yet been realized. …”
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Optimization of Sb2(S, Se)3 photoabsorbers for photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction by Lee, Kian Jie

“…This is due to their unique characteristics, such as tuneable band gap, quasi-1D crystal structure, appropriate band alignment for water splitting, a stable single orthorhombic phase, low cost and non-toxicity. …”
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Shape-controlled synthesis and application of one-dimensional cadmium chalcogenide nanocrystals by Xi, Lifei

“…In this work, three catalyst-free and solution-based methods were used for the synthesis of 1D cadmium chalcogenide nanocrystals. …”
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New metallic ordered phase of perovskite CsPbI3 under pressure by Liang, Yongfu, Huang, Xiaoli, Huang, Yanping, Wang, Xin, Li, Fangfei, Wang, Youchun, Tian, Fubo, Liu, Bingbing, Shen, Ze Xiang, Cui, Tian

“…Herein, how static compression modulates the crystal and electronic structure of typical perovskite semiconductors cesium lead iodine (CsPbI3) by both experimental and theoretical studies is reported. …”
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Suppression of mixed-phase areas in highly elongated BiFeO3 thin films on NdAlO3 substrates by Woo, Chang-Su, Lee, Jin Hong, Chu, Kanghyun, Jang, Byung-Kweon, Kim, Yong-Bae, Koo, Tae Yeong, Yang, Ping, Qi, Yajun, Chen, Zuhuang, Chen, Lang, Choi, Hong Chul, Shim, Ji Hoon, Yang, Chan-Ho

“…The underlying mechanisms are discussed based on the intriguing nature of phase competition in bismuth ferrite phases using first principles density functional calculations for the misfit strain-dependent total energy.…”
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Cage Molecules Stabilize Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Films by Sun, Shijing, Liu, Ming, Thapa, Janak, Hartono, Noor Titan Putri, Zhao, Yicheng, He, Donglin, Wieghold, Sarah, Chua, Matthew, Wu, Yue, Bulović, Vladimir, Ling, Sanliang, Brabec, Christoph J., Cooper, Andrew I., Buonassisi, Tonio

“…Molecular additives have recently emerged as an effective strategy for regulating HOIP crystal growth and passivating defects. However, to date the choice of additives is largely limited to a dozen or so materials under the design philosophy that high crystallinity is a prerequisite for stable HOIP thin films. …”
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Synthesis of biomimetic co-polypeptides with tunable degrees of phosphorylation by Lipik, Vitali, Zhang, Lihong, Miserez, Ali

“…Here, we present a co-polypeptide synthesis strategy based on the Ring-Opening Polymerization (ROP) of N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs), followed by controlled phosphorylation of serine (Ser) residues. …”
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BswR controls bacterial motility and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through modulation of the small RNA RsmZ by Wang, Chao, Ye, Fuzhou, Kumar, Veerendra, Gao, Yong-Gui, Zhang, Lian-Hui

“…Transcriptomic and biochemical analyses showed that BswR counteracts the repressor activity of MvaT, controls the transcription of small RNA rsmZ and regulates the biogenesis of bacterial flagella. The crystal structure of BswR was determined at 2.3 Å resolution; the monomer comprises a DNA-binding domain with a helix-turn-helix motif in the N terminus and two helices (α6 and α7) with a V-shaped arrangement in the C-terminus. …”
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Molecular docking-aided identification of small molecule inhibitors targeting β-catenin-TCF4 interaction by Low, Joo-Leng, Du, Weina, Gocha, Tenzin, Oguz, Gokce, Zhang, Xiaoqian, Chen, Ming Wei, Masirevic, Srdan, Yim, Daniel Guo Rong, Tan, Iain Bee Huat, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Fan, Hao, DasGupta, Ramanuj

“…Specifically, we developed and optimized a computational model of β-cat using publicly available β-cat protein crystal structures, and existing β-cat-TCF4 interaction inhibitors as the training set. …”
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Solution-processed highly bright and durable cesium lead halide perovskite light-emitting diodes by Wei, Zhanhua, Perumal, Ajay, Su, Rui, Sushant, Shendre, Xing, Jun, Zhang, Qing, Tan, Swee Tiam, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Xiong, Qihua

“…Herein, we report highly bright and durable CsPbBr3-based LEDs fabricated using a one-step solution method. …”
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Cold atoms laboratory in a hollow core fiber by Leong, Wui Seng

“…The results signify a promise in future quantum sciences and technologies with compact fiber-based devices.…”
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Controllable broadband multicolour single-mode polarized laser in a dye-assembled homoepitaxial MOF microcrystal by He, Huajun, Cui, Yuanjing, Li, Hongjun, Shao, Kai, Chen, Banglin, Qian, Guodong

“…Here, we demonstrate a single crystal with multiple segments based on the host-guest metal-organic framework ZJU-68 hierarchically hybridized with different dye molecules generating controllable single-mode green, red, and near-infrared lasing, with the lasing mode mechanism revealed by computational simulation. …”
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Triaxially strained suspended graphene for large-area pseudo-magnetic fields by Luo, Manlin, Sun, Hao, Qi, Zhipeng, Lu, Kunze, Chen, Melvina, Kang, Dongho, Kim, Youngmin, Burt, Daniel, Yu, Xuechao, Wang, Chongwu, Kim, Young Duck, Wang, Hong, Wang, Qi Jie, Nam, Donguk

“…We also theoretically propose a photonic crystal-based laser structure that obtains strongly localized optical fields overlapping with the spatial area under uniform PMFs, thus presenting a practical route toward the realization of graphene lasers.…”
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Characterization of liposome-encapsulated tylosin, in vitro Cytotoxicity and its antibacterial activitiy against Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis isolated from goats by Saddiqi, Mohammad Ehsan

“…The antibacterial activity of free and liposomal tylosin against C. pseudotuberculosis was performed using microbroth dilution and resazurin methods and the antibiofilm activity was evaluated using minimum biofilm inhibitory concentration and minimum biofilm eradication concentration (MBEC) by crystal violet and resazurin-based colourimetric methods. …”
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Synthesis, structural studies and ligand influence on the stability of aryl-NHC stabilised trimethylaluminium complexes by Wu, Melissa M., Gill, Arran M., Lu, Yunpeng, Laura, Falivene, Li, Yongxin, Rakesh, Ganguly, Luigi, Cavallo, Felipe, García

“…All the compounds have been fully characterised by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy, IR and single crystal X-ray analysis together with computational studies.…”
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Effective small organic molecule as a defect passivator for highly efficient quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes by Li, Y, Li, F, Yu, Z, Tamilavan, V, Oh, C-M, Jeong, WH, Shen, X, Lee, S, Du, X, Yang, E, Ahn, Y, Hwang, I-W, Lee, BR, Park, SH

“…The small organic molecule can passivate defects on the grain surround and surface of perovskite crystal structures, preventing nonradiative recombination and charge trapping. …”

Accelerated discovery of new catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction by Mahmoud G. Ahmed

“…The high spin of Mn3+ ions (t2g3 eg1) can easily bond with OH– ions leading to high OER activity. The Mn-based spinel oxide demonstrates high OER performance and is one of the best Mn-based catalyst reported so far. …”
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Selective fluoride removal from groundwater using CNT-CeO2 electrodes in capacitive deionization (CDI) by Liu, Xun, Rehman, Danyal, Shu, Yufei, Liu, Bei, Wang, Li, Li, Li, Wang, Mengxia, Wang, Kunkun, Han, Qi, Zang, Linlin, Lienhard, John H., Wang, Zhongying

“…Importantly, this translates to a F−/Cl− separation factor of up to 4.16 when using the CeO2-based electrodes, which is 40 times higher than that achieved with conventional activated carbon (AC) electrodes. …”
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Automatic Generation of Chemical Kinetic Models including Macromolecules in Multiphase Systems by Pang, Hao-Wei

“…A decision tree model based on subgraph isomorphism for gas-phase radical thermochemistry is presented. …”
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