Latest Articles of Chemistry of Materials


Anomalous H2 Desorption Rate of NaAlH4 Confined in Nitrogen-Doped Nanoporous Carbon Frameworks 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00305 2018-04-17 Confining NaAlH4 in nanoporous carbon scaffolds is known to alter the sorption kinetics and/or pathways of the characteristic bulk hydride reactions through interaction with the framework at the interface, increased specific surface area of the resulting nano...
Toward Ultimate Control of Radical Polymerization: Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks as a Robust Environment for Metal-Catalyzed Polymerizations 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00546 2018-04-16 Herein, an approach via combination of confined porous textures and reversible deactivation radical polymerization techniques is proposed to advance synthetic polymer chemistry, i.e., a connection of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and activators regenerated ...
Shape-, Size-, and Composition-Controlled Thallium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanowires and Nanocrystals with Tunable Band Gaps 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00421 2018-04-16 Perovskite nanocrystals have shown themselves to be useful for both absorption- and emission-based applications, including solar cells, photodetectors, and LEDs. Here we present a new class of size-, composition-, and shape-tunable nanocrystals made from Tl3P...
Modulating the Growth Rate, Aspect Ratio, and Yield of Copper Nanowires with Alkylamines 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00760 2018-04-12 This article shows how the chain length of alkylamine capping agents and the corresponding stability of their self-assembled monolayers on a Cu surface determines the growth rate, yield, and dimensions of Cu nanowires produced in a solution-phase synthesis. O...
Moldable Perfluoropolyether–Polyethylene Glycol Networks with Tunable Wettability and Solvent Resistance for Rapid Prototyping of Droplet Microfluidics 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b05043 2018-04-12 Soft lithography-based droplet microfluidics has enabled production of highly uniform and complex emulsions. Although there is a significant potential to use these emulsions as templates for functional materials syntheses, conventional elastomers that are use...
Understanding the Electrochemical Mechanisms Induced by Gradient Mg2+ Distribution of Na-Rich Na3+xV2–xMgx(PO4)3/C for Sodium Ion Batteries 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03903 2018-04-11 Metal-ion doping can improve the electrochemical performance of Na3V2(PO4)3. However, the reason for the enhanced electrochemical performance and the effects of cation doping on the structure of Na3V2(PO4)3 have yet been probed. Herein, Mg2+ is doped into Na3...
Chemical Principles of Topological Semimetals 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b05133 2018-04-10 Initiated by the discovery of topological insulators, topologically non-trivial materials have attracted immense interest in the physics community in the past decade. One of the latest additions to the field, the material class of topological semimetals, has ...
Predicting New Zeolites: A Combination of Thermodynamic and Kinetic Factors 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00905 2018-04-10 Zeolites are a special class of inorganic compounds which potentially possess an infinite variety of different structures that are energetically very close to each other. Although the databases of hypothetical zeolite frameworks, which are thermodynamically c...
High-Quality Single-Crystalline MFI-Type Nanozeolites: A Facile Synthetic Strategy and MTP Catalytic Studies 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00527 2018-04-10 A facile strategy affording high-quality single-crystalline MFI-type nanozeolites (10–55 nm) with hexagonal prism morphology, good monodispersity, high crystallinity, and high product yield (above 97%) has been developed. This is achieved by synergistically u...
Metal-Halide-Ligated Cadmium Selenide Quantum Belts by Facile Surface Exchange 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01294 2018-04-10 Amine-ligated {CdSe[n-octylamine]0.53±0.06} quantum belts undergo instantaneous, reversible exchange of the L-type amine ligation for Z-type ligation provided by the neutral metal halides MX2 (M = Cd, Zn; X = Cl, Br, I). The CdX2-ligated quantum belts are det...

Anomalous H2 Desorption Rate of NaAlH4 Confined in Nitrogen-Doped Nanoporous Carbon Frameworks

10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00305

2018-04-17

Confining NaAlH4 in nanoporous carbon scaffolds is known to alter the sorption kinetics and/or pathways of the characteristic bulk hydride reactions through interaction with the framework at the interface, increased specific surface area of the resulting nano...

Toward Ultimate Control of Radical Polymerization: Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks as a Robust Environment for Metal-Catalyzed Polymerizations

10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00546

2018-04-16

Herein, an approach via combination of confined porous textures and reversible deactivation radical polymerization techniques is proposed to advance synthetic polymer chemistry, i.e., a connection of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and activators regenerated ...

Shape-, Size-, and Composition-Controlled Thallium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanowires and Nanocrystals with Tunable Band Gaps

10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00421

2018-04-16

Perovskite nanocrystals have shown themselves to be useful for both absorption- and emission-based applications, including solar cells, photodetectors, and LEDs. Here we present a new class of size-, composition-, and shape-tunable nanocrystals made from Tl3P...

Modulating the Growth Rate, Aspect Ratio, and Yield of Copper Nanowires with Alkylamines

10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00760

2018-04-12

This article shows how the chain length of alkylamine capping agents and the corresponding stability of their self-assembled monolayers on a Cu surface determines the growth rate, yield, and dimensions of Cu nanowires produced in a solution-phase synthesis. O...

Moldable Perfluoropolyether–Polyethylene Glycol Networks with Tunable Wettability and Solvent Resistance for Rapid Prototyping of Droplet Microfluidics

10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b05043

2018-04-12

Soft lithography-based droplet microfluidics has enabled production of highly uniform and complex emulsions. Although there is a significant potential to use these emulsions as templates for functional materials syntheses, conventional elastomers that are use...

Understanding the Electrochemical Mechanisms Induced by Gradient Mg2+ Distribution of Na-Rich Na3+xV2–xMgx(PO4)3/C for Sodium Ion Batteries

10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03903

2018-04-11

Metal-ion doping can improve the electrochemical performance of Na3V2(PO4)3. However, the reason for the enhanced electrochemical performance and the effects of cation doping on the structure of Na3V2(PO4)3 have yet been probed. Herein, Mg2+ is doped into Na3...

Chemical Principles of Topological Semimetals

10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b05133

2018-04-10

Initiated by the discovery of topological insulators, topologically non-trivial materials have attracted immense interest in the physics community in the past decade. One of the latest additions to the field, the material class of topological semimetals, has ...

Predicting New Zeolites: A Combination of Thermodynamic and Kinetic Factors

10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00905

2018-04-10

Zeolites are a special class of inorganic compounds which potentially possess an infinite variety of different structures that are energetically very close to each other. Although the databases of hypothetical zeolite frameworks, which are thermodynamically c...

High-Quality Single-Crystalline MFI-Type Nanozeolites: A Facile Synthetic Strategy and MTP Catalytic Studies

10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00527

2018-04-10

A facile strategy affording high-quality single-crystalline MFI-type nanozeolites (10–55 nm) with hexagonal prism morphology, good monodispersity, high crystallinity, and high product yield (above 97%) has been developed. This is achieved by synergistically u...

Metal-Halide-Ligated Cadmium Selenide Quantum Belts by Facile Surface Exchange

10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01294

2018-04-10

Amine-ligated {CdSe[n-octylamine]0.53±0.06} quantum belts undergo instantaneous, reversible exchange of the L-type amine ligation for Z-type ligation provided by the neutral metal halides MX2 (M = Cd, Zn; X = Cl, Br, I). The CdX2-ligated quantum belts are det...