Chemistry (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Advanced materials of printed wearables for physiological parameter monitoring
(2020)The consumer demand for flexible wearables has increased rapidly with the advent of recent commercial health monitoring systems. The progress in wearable electronics for monitoring physiological parameters in the healthcare ... -
Two-Photon Absorption in Monolayer MXenes
(2020)Two‐photon absorption (2PA) is a nonlinear optical (NLO) effect that typically occurs in a conventional semiconductor whose bandgap is larger than the energy of one excited photon but smaller than the energy of two photons. ... -
Mxene materials based printed flexible devices for healthcare, biomedical and energy storage applications
(2021)The advent of cost effective printed smart devices has revolutionized the healthcare sector by allowing disease prediction and timely treatment through non-invasive real time and continuous health monitoring. Future ... -
Unexpected linkage isomerism in chiral tetranuclear bis-tridentate (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) grids
(2019)The synthesis of a chiral bis-tridentate (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligand is described and its coordination chemistry with Cu(NO3)2 and [Cu(MeCN)4]PF6 is explored in the crystalline phase as well as in ... -
Synthesis, structural characterisation and antiproliferative activity of a new fluorescent 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide Tröger's base-Ru(ii)-curcumin organometallic conjugate
(2018)The synthesis, photophysics and biological investigation of fluorescent 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide Tröger's bases (TB-1–TB-3) and a new Tröger's base p-cymene–Ru(II)–curcumin organometallic conjugate (TB–Ru–Cur) are described; ... -
Surface-Modified Gold Nanoparticles Possessing Two-Channel Responsive Eu III /Tb III Cyclen Complexes as Luminescent Logic Gate Mimics
(2017)The development of material-supported molecular logic gate mimics (MGLMs) for contained application and device fabrication has become of increasing interest. Herein, we present the formation of ≈5 nm gold nanoparticles ... -
Crystallographic studies of 2-picolyl substituted naphthalene diimide and bis-phthalimide ligands and their supramolecular coordination chemistry
(2019)Here we report the synthesis of two N-(2-picolyl) substituted bis-imide ligands, N,N′-di(2-picolyl)-1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimide L1 and N,N′-di(2-picolyl)-4,4′-oxybisphthalimide L2, and describe their ... -
Understanding the factors controlling the photo-oxidation of natural DNA by enantiomerically pure intercalating ruthenium polypyridyl complexes through TA/TRIR studies with polydeoxynucleotides and mixed sequence oligodeoxynucleotides
(2020)Ruthenium polypyridyl complexes which can sensitise the photo-oxidation of nucleic acids and other biological molecules show potential for photo-therapeutic applications. In this article a combination of transient visible ... -
The effect of the linker size in C2-symmetrical chiral ligands on the self-assembly formation of luminescent triple-stranded di-metallic Eu(iii) helicates in solution
(2018)Chiral lanthanide-based supramolecular structures have gained significant importance in view of their application in imaging, sensing and other functional purposes. We have designed chiral C2-symmetrical ligands (L) based ... -
Exploring the reversible host–guest chemistry of a crystalline octanuclear Ag(i) metallosupramolecular macrocycle formed from a simple pyrazinylpyridine ligand
(2018)Here we report the synthesis of two new 2-(2′-pyrazinyl)pyridine ligands, and explore their coordination chemistry with Cu(II) and Ag(I) ions, leading to the discovery of metallosupramolecular architectures of surprising ... -
Tetraarylpyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrroles as versatile and responsive fluorescent linkers in metal-organic frameworks
(2018)The first examples of crystalline coordination polymers containing the tetraarylpyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole (TPP) fluorophore are presented. We have prepared three new TPP ligands L1, H2L2 and H2L3, containing nitrile, carboxylate ... -
The 4-pyridonyl group as a multifunctional electron donor in 1,8-naphthalimide-based photoluminescent and mechanically interlocked coordination compounds
(2018)A new ligand system incorporating the 4-pyridonyl group as a substituent in 1,8-naphthalimide compounds is presented, with the pyridone group acting as both an electron donor for the internal charge transfer (ICT) fluorescence ... -
Supramolecular Chemistry: A Toolkit for Soft Functional Materials and Organic Particles
(2017)Self-assembly has proven to be a powerful tool for the construction of complex superstructures. The assembly of monomers into supramolecular architectures via non-covalent interactions is chiefly directed by the molecular ... -
Luminescent lanthanide (Eu(iii)) cross-linked supramolecular metallo co-polymeric hydrogels: The effect of ligand symmetry
(2019)Two lanthanide luminescent naphthyl-dipicolinic amide (dpa) methacrylate monomers for the synthesis of grafted supramolecular co-polymer gels (hydrogels), and their use as additional crosslinks in robust covalently ... -
Sulfate-Templated 2D Anion-Layered Supramolecular Self-Assemblies
(2019)Using solution and solid-state analyses, we demonstrate that the tripodal N-methylated(1,3,5-benzene-tricarboxamide)-tris(phenylurea) BTA ligands, possessing urea functionalities in the meta position, are able to form ... -
Inosine Can Increase DNA's Susceptibility to Photo-oxidation by a RuII Complex due to Structural Change in the Minor Groove
(2017)Key to the development of DNA-targeting phototherapeutic drugs is determining the interplay between the photoactivity of the drug and its binding preference for a target sequence. For the photo-oxidising lambda-[Ru(TAP)2 ... -
Self-assembled Ln(III) cyclen-based micelles and AuNPs conjugates as candidates for luminescent and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents
(2020)The tetra-substituted heptadentate cyclen (1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane) based Eu(III)/Tb(III)/Gd(III)-complexes 1.Ln and 2.Ln were developed. 1.Eu/Tb and 2.Eu/Tb were employed in the formation of luminescent self-assembling ... -
Glycosylated naphthalimides and naphthalimide Tröger's bases as fluorescent aggregation probes for Con A
(2019)Herein we report the synthesis of fluorescent, glycosylated 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide (Nap) 1, and the related 1,8-naphthalimides Tröger's bases (TBNap) 2 and 3, from 1,8-naphthalic anhydride precursors, the α-mannosides ... -
Solution-State Anion Recognition, and Structural Studies, of a Series of Electron-Rich meta-Phenylene Bis(phenylurea) Receptors and Their Self-Assembled Structures
(2018)meta-Phenylene bis(phenylurea) receptors 1-4 were designed and synthesized to investigate the association between receptor shape, anion-selective binding and anion-directed self-assembly processes. Solution studies, performed ... -
Universal scaling relations for the rational design of molecular water oxidation catalysts with near-zero overpotential
(2019)A major roadblock in realizing large-scale production of hydrogen via electrochemical water splitting is the cost and inefficiency of current catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Computational research has ...
