Natural blues: Structure meets function in anthocyanins

A Houghton, I Appelhagen, C Martin - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Choices of blue food colourants are extremely limited, with only two options in the USA,
synthetic blue no. 1 and no. 2, and a third available in Europe, patent blue V. The food …

Revisiting the non-fluorescence of nitroaromatics: presumption versus reality

YM Poronik, B Sadowski, K Szychta… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The electronically excited singlet states of nitroaromatic compounds are often presumed to
be essentially non-fluorescent. Nonetheless, a growing number of reports in the literature …

Electroreduction of CO2 to methane with triazole molecular catalysts

Z Xu, R Lu, ZY Lin, W Wu, HJ Tsai, Q Lu, YC Li… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction towards value-added fuel and feedstocks often
relies on metal-based catalysts. Organic molecular catalysts, which are more acutely tunable …

Hammett relationship in oxidase‐mimicking metal–organic frameworks revealed through a protein‐engineering‐inspired strategy

J Wu, Z Wang, X **, S Zhang, T Li, Y Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While the unique physicochemical properties of nanomaterials that enable regulation of
nanozyme activities are demonstrated in many systems, quantitative relationships between …

Multifunctional biocomposites based on cross-linked Shrimp waste-derived chitosan modified Zn2+@ Calcium apatite for the removal of methyl orange and …

RELK Billah, A Zaghloul, NA Oladoja… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, the cross-linked chitosan composite modified with zinc-doped hydroxyapatite
was synthesized and grown in its polymer matrix. The final composite material was tested for …

Innovation of Fe (III), Ni (II), and Pd (II) complexes derived from benzothiazole imidazolidin‐4‐ol ligand: Geometrical elucidation, theoretical calculation, and …

AM Abu‐Dief, MA Said, O Elhady… - Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis of a simple, highly tunable, and effective BSI ligand, 2‐(benzothiazol‐2‐
ylimino)‐2, 3‐dihydro‐1H‐imidazol‐4‐ol, was presented. Three new coordinating …

Functionalizing aromatic compounds with optical cycling centres

GZ Zhu, D Mitra, BL Augenbraun, CE Dickerson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Molecular design principles provide guidelines for augmenting a molecule with a smaller
group of atoms to realize a desired property or function. We demonstrate that these concepts …

Elucidating the electronic structure of a delayed fluorescence emitter via orbital interactions, excitation energy components, charge-transfer numbers, and vibrational …

Z Pei, Q Ou, Y Mao, J Yang, A Lande… - The journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recently, Wang and co-workers carried out frontier molecule orbital engineering in the
design of m-Cz-BNCz, a thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecule that …

First-principles studies of substituent effects on squaraine dyes

G Barcenas, A Biaggne, OA Mass, CK Wilson… - RSC …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye molecules that absorb light in the visible region are key components in many
applications, including organic photovoltaics, biological fluorescent labeling, super …

Controlling Polarization‐Induced Polaron Accumulation in OLEDs via Device Design

E Pakhomenko, S Martin, S He… - Advanced Functional …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Spontaneous alignment of molecular electric dipole moments, known as spontaneous
orientation polarization (SOP), is present in many organic electronic materials. The SOP …