Biosystem‐inspired engineering of nanozymes for biomedical applications

L Zhang, H Wang, X Qu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nanozymes with intrinsic enzyme‐mimicking activities have shown great potential to
become surrogates of natural enzymes in many fields by virtue of their advantages of high …

Reactions in single-molecule junctions

H Chen, C Jia, X Zhu, C Yang, X Guo… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Develo** new materials is a long-standing goal that extends across the fields of synthesis,
catalysis, nanotechnology and materials science. Transforming one compound or material …

Boosting the performance of single-atom catalysts via external electric field polarization

Y Pan, X Wang, W Zhang, L Tang, Z Mu, C Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts represent a unique catalytic system with high atomic utilization and
tunable reaction pathway. Despite current successes in their optimization and tailoring …

Strong electric field observed at the interface of aqueous microdroplets

H **ong, JK Lee, RN Zare, W Min - The journal of physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chemical reactions in aqueous microdroplets often exhibit unusual kinetic and
thermodynamic properties not observed in bulk solution. While an electric field has been …

Electric-field mediated chemistry: uncovering and exploiting the potential of (oriented) electric fields to exert chemical catalysis and reaction control

S Shaik, D Danovich, J Joy, Z Wang… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This Perspective discusses oriented external-electric-fields (OEEF), and other electric-field
types, as “smart reagents”, which enable in principle control over wide-ranging aspects of …

High electric fields on water microdroplets catalyze spontaneous and fast reactions in halogen-bond complexes

C Zhu, LN Pham, X Yuan, H Ouyang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The use of external electric fields as green and efficient catalysts in synthetic chemistry has
recently received significant attention for their ability to deliver remarkable control of reaction …

Single-molecule junction: A reliable platform for monitoring molecular physical and chemical processes

X **e, P Li, Y Xu, L Zhou, Y Yan, L **e, C Jia, X Guo - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Monitoring and manipulating the physical and chemical behavior of single molecules is an
important development direction of molecular electronics that aids in understanding the …

Electric fields in catalysis: From enzymes to molecular catalysts

NG Léonard, R Dhaoui, T Chantarojsiri, JY Yang - ACS catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electric fields underlie all reactions and impact reactivity by interacting with the dipoles and
net charges of transition states, products, and reactants to modify the free energy landscape …

Harnessing the high interfacial electric fields on water microdroplets to accelerate Menshutkin reactions

Z Song, C Liang, K Gong, S Zhao, X Yuan… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Even though it is still an emerging field, the application of a high external electric field (EEF)
as a green and efficient catalyst in synthetic chemistry has recently received significant …

Portraits of soot molecules reveal pathways to large aromatics, five-/seven-membered rings, and inception through π-radical localization

LA Lieske, M Commodo, JW Martin, K Kaiser… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Incipient soot early in the flame was studied by high-resolution atomic force microscopy and
scanning tunneling microscopy to resolve the atomic structure and orbital densities of single …