Designing soft organic materials able to directly convert light into macroscopic motion represents one of the grand challenges in modern chemistry. Optomechanical properties originate from the collection and amplificatio...
The possibility to modulate molecules reversibly by light has been fascinating chemists early on. One of the most powerful photochromic classes of compounds are azobenzenes, which have been incorporated in multiple molec...
We report a remarkably facile one-pot sonochemical approach to prepare protein microspheres whose shells are covalently decorated with a mannosyl derivative to target Escherichia coli (E. coli), while their cores are enc...
Self-stacked Co(3)O(4) nanosheets separated by carbon layers were synthesized via a facile method. They exhibit excellent electrochemical performance that results from superior electronic conductivity endowed by carbon, ...
K(+)-recognition capsules are developed to translate K(+)-recognition into a squirting release function. Upon recognition of K(+), the capsules shrink rapidly and squirt out encapsulated oil cores due to the cooperative ...
A graphene oxide/titania (GO/TiO(2)) nanocomposite was fabricated by a facile electrostatic attraction method. With high polarization of GO particles and a relatively high dielectric constant of TiO(2) nanoparticles, the...
Lanthanide complexes of a pyridylphenylphosphinate ligand based on triazacyclononane form an isostructural series. The C(3)-symmetric Delta and Lambda complexes of Eu and Tb are strongly emissive and can be resolved by c...
Pd(II)-chitosan composite nanofibres of 62 +/- 9 nm diameter are efficient catalysts for Heck cross-coupling reactions. Using a model reaction of iodo-benzene and n-butyl acrylate, we demonstrate that this material can b...
Reaction of 2,6-dimesityl pyridine (L(py)) with BBr(3) leads to the spontaneous formation of the trigonal dibromoborenium cation [L(py)center dot BBr(2)](+) via bromide ejection. Systematic structural and computational s...
The stability of copper-seamed C-alkylpyrogallol[4]arene hexamers with varying chain lengths in solution has been studied using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). The progression in diameter of spherical capsules wit...
Positively-charged gold nanoparticles can effectively differentiate long DNA and fragmented DNA, thus providing a simple and visual approach to colorimetric detection of nuclease activity.
An electrochemiluminescent biosensor was designed for the detection of Ag(+) ions and cysteine as well as their interaction study. To this end, a functional nucleic acid was designed for target recognition and probe inte...
L-Arabinose isomerase stability is a crucial criterion for the industrial application of this biocatalyst. Noria and NoriaPG are capable of increasing the L-arabinose isomerase stability not only at high temperatures but...
Pd-Ag shell catalysts impregnated with two different ionic liquids show considerable improvements both in ethylene selectivity and reduced ethane formation in the selective hydrogenation of acetylene under tail-end condi...
We have developed a highly efficient procedure for carrying out the catalytic enantioselective (3+2) cycloaddition between enals and stable azomethine ylides such as isoquinolinium and phthalizinium methylides. Under the...