Research Archive

In this Perspective, we incorporate strategies from diverse chemical arenas for controlling assembled morphologies and dynamics of protein-mimetic synthetic macromolecules.

A core–shell approach that utilizes a high-surface-area conducting core and an outer semiconductor shell is exploited here to prepare p-type dye-sensitized solar energy cells that operate with a minimal applied bias.

We demonstrate nonadiabatic Thouless pumping of electrons in trans-polyacetylene in the framework of Floquet engineering using first-principles theory. We identify the regimes in which the quantized pump is operative with respect to the driving electric field for a time-dependent Hamiltonian.

The DNA-guided assembly of biohybrid sequence-defined poly(phosphodiester)s was investigated. These polymers contain long non-natural segments covalently connected to single-stranded DNA sequences. These biohybrid structures were synthesized by automated phosphoramidite chemistry using both nucleoside and abiological phosphoramidite monomers.

Herein, we report the application of redox-active chemical probes (E◦′ = −0.48 to −1.9 V vs Fc+/0) coupled with spectroscopic tools (nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and UV–vis–NIR) to gain insight into the molecular-level nature and reactivity of defects at PbS QD surfaces.

This review details the progress toward the electroanalytical detection and evaluation of single enzyme kinetics largely focused on the nanoimpact method, a chronoamperometric detection strategy that monitors the change in the current-time profile associated with stochastic collisions of freely diffusing entities (e.g., enzymes) onto a microelectrode or nanoelectrode surface.

One exciting subset of single-entity electrochemistry, and the topic of this review, is the study of reactions in nanoreactors of subfemtoliter (10−15 L) volumes with a particular focus on nanoparticle synthesis.

This work is focused on the development of poly(diol-co-citrate-co-ascorbate) (POCA) elastomers with tunable properties for coating ePTFE vascular grafts.

Here, we report the use of pincer-ligated iridium complexes to achieve alkane dehydrogenation by proton-coupled electron transfer, using pairs of oxidants and bases as proton and electron acceptors.

In this study, we quantified an increasing concentration response of three well-established α-pinene SOA tracers (pinic, pinonic, and 3-methyl-1,2,3-butanetricarboxylic acids) and a full mixture of α-pinene SOA in A549 (alveolar epithelial carcinoma) and BEAS-2B (bronchial epithelial normal) lung cell lines.