Chemistry (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Forming and compliance-free operation of low-energy, fast-switching HfOxSy/HfS2 memristors
(2025)We demonstrate low energy, forming and compliance-free operation of a resistive memory obtained by the partial oxidation of a two-dimensional layered van-der-Waals semiconductor: hafnium disulfide (HfS2). Semiconductor–oxide ... -
Controlled Fabrication of Native Ultra-Thin Amorphous Gallium Oxide From 2D Gallium Sulfide for Emerging Electronic Applications
(2024)Oxidation of 2D layered materials has proven advantageous in creating oxide/2D material heterostructures, opening the door for a new paradigm of low-power electronic devices. Gallium (II) sulfide (β-GaS), a hexagonal phase ... -
Potassium-Ion Battery Electrodes from Potassium Ferricyanide Nanoplatelets: Thin Platelets and Thick Electrodes Unlock High Areal Capacity and Excellent Rate Performance
(2025)Recent efforts to develop cathode materials for potassium-ion batteries (KIBs) have focused on maximizing specific capacity. However, real applications will require thick electrodes with high areal capacity that can ... -
Surface Modification Improves Spinel LiCoO2 Li-Ion Battery Cathode Materials Grown by Low Temperature Solvothermal Flow Reaction
(2024)Methods that provide routes to LiCoO2 growth with lower energy requirements from recycled battery cathode ashes are important for sustainable Li-ion battery technology . Here, a low temperature route to a stable, coated ... -
Carbon Thin-Film Electrodes as High-Performing Substrates for Correlative Single Entity Electrochemistry
(2024)Correlative methods to characterize single entities by electrochemistry and microscopy/spectroscopy are increasingly needed to elucidate structure-function relationships of nanomaterials. However, the technical constraints ... -
Optimization of Piezo-driven Jet Valve Dispensing Process for the Geometrical Control of Printed Sensors based on Silver and MXene inks
(2024)Printed sensors offer unique benefits - highly customizable designs, low-cost prototyping, and a wide range of materials and properties - which can be exploited. Piezo-driven jet valve dispensing is a printing technique ... -
Double transition metal Ti2NbC2Tx MXene with modulated electronic structure for advanced lithium-ion capacitors
(2025)Double transition metal (DTM) MXenes are garnering increasing attention owe to their wide diversity, controllable properties, tunable electronic structure and surface chemistry. Nevertheless, research on the exciting DTM ... -
A Magnetic Nanocarrier of Ciprofloxacin Used for Restraining the Growth of the Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(2025)Ciprofloxacin (CPL) is an effective antibiotic against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, its use is limited by the emergence of multi-resistant strains. In this study, 8–15 nm manganese ferrite (MnFe2O4) nanoparticles, ... -
Electrically Insulating Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Materials: A Perspective
(2024)Electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding is critical in electronic applications. Over the past decades, numerous high-performance EMI shields are developed using electrically conducting materials. However, from an ... -
3D networked MXene thin films for high performance supercapacitors
(2024)Maximizing the energy and power density of supercapacitors requires thick electrodes, enabling a high areal loading. Simultaneously, a sophisticated, hierarchical pore structure for the active material is needed, ... -
Electrically Conductive Injectable Silk/PEDOT: PSS Hydrogel for Enhanced Neural Network Formation
(2025)With no effective treatments for functional recovery after injury, spinal cord injury (SCI) remains one of the unresolved healthcare challenges. Human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) transplantation is a versatile ... -
Tailored glycosylated anode surfaces: Addressing the exoelectrogen bacterial community via functional layers for microbial fuel cell applications
(2020)Grafting of aryldiazonium cations bearing a p-mannoside functionality over microbial fuel cell (MFC) anode materials was performed to investigate the ability of aryl-glycoside layers to regulate colonisation by biocatalytic ... -
Alkali cation-π interactions in aqueous systems, modulating supramolecular stereoisomerism of nanoscopic metal-organic capsules
(2024)Contrary to common chemical intuition, cation-π interactions can persist in polar, aqueous reaction solutions, rather than in dry non-coordinative solvent systems. This account highlights how alkali ion-π interactions ... -
High-Valent Cobalt-Difluoride in Oxidative Fluorination of Saturated Hydrocarbons
(2025)The heme paradigm where Fe=O acts as the C−H oxidant and Fe−OH rebounds with the formed carbon-centered radical guides the design of the prototypical synthetic hydroxylation catalyst. We are exploring methods to evolve ... -
Reduction of Exfoliated MoS2 Nanosheets Yields the Semi-Conducting 2H-polymorph Rather Than the Metallic 1T-polymorph
(2024)Delaminated two‐dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalchogenides (TMDs) have attracted significant attention due to their potential application in electronics, catalysis, and biomedical devices. Chemical derivation of ... -
Preparation and characterization of MnIIMnIII complexes with relevance to class Ib ribonucleotide reductases
(2024)The Mn2 complex [MnII 2(TPDP)(O2CPh)2](BPh4) (1, TPDP = 1,3-bis(bis(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)amino)propan-2-ol, Ph =phenyl) was prepared and subsequently characterized via single-crystal X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption, ... -
A CoII-Hydroxide Complex That Converts Directly to a CoII-Acetamide during Catalytic Nitrile Hydration
(2024)In exploring structural and functional mimics ofnitrile hydratases, we report the synthesis of the pseudo-trigonalbipyramidal CoII complexes (K)[CoII(DMF)(LPh)] (1(DMF)),(NMe4)2[CoII(OAc)(LPh)] (1(OAc)), and (NMe4)2[CoII ... -
Class Ib Ribonucleotide Reductases: Activation of a Peroxido-MnIIMnIII to Generate a Reactive Oxo-MnIIIMnIV Oxidant
(2024)In the postulated catalytic cycle of class Ib Mn2 ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs), a MnII2 core is suggested to react with superoxide (O2·-) to generate peroxido-MnIIMnIII and oxo-MnIIIMnIV entities prior to proton-coupled ... -
Synthesis, Characterisation, and Functionalisation of Charged Two-Dimensional MoS2
(2023)The applications of exfoliated MoS2 are limited by its inert surface and poor interface. We have activated the surface of exfoliated 2H-MoS2 by reacting it with NaBH4, forming an n-doped material as demonstrated by a ... -
Hydrocarbon Oxidation by a Porphyrin-π-Cation Radical Complex
(2023)Heme and chlorin π-cation radical oxidants are widely implicated in biological and synthetic oxidation catalysis. Little insight into the role of π-cation radicals in proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) oxidation is ...
