COVER PICTURE Lando P. Wolters and F. Matthias Bickelhaupt* The cover picture illustrates the authors' quantum chemical finding that π electrons can significantly bend otherwise linear d(10)-ML2 complexes through backbonding. The foreground features a typical series of linear and nonlinear computed equilibrium geometries, while, in the background, one discerns quantitative numerical output of t...

The aluminum-based metal-organic framework (MOF) made from 2-aminoterephthalate is a photocatalyst for oxygen evolution. This MOF can be modified by incorporating Ni2+ cations into the pores through coordination to the amino groups, and the resulting MOF is an efficient photocatalyst for overall water splitting.

An ultrathin AlOx layer has been deposited onto a CH3NH3PbI3 film using atomic layer deposition technology, to construct a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) back contact for the hole-transporting material-free perovskite solar cell. By optimization of the ALD deposition cycles, the average power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the cell has been enhanced from 8.61% to 10.07% with a highest PCE ...

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงคเพ่ือศึกษาความเปนไปไดในการใชคาตาลิสตท่ีใชแลวจากโรงกลั่นนํ้ ามันเพ่ือเปนวัสดุในงาน คอนกรีตคาตาลิสตจะนํ ามาใชแทนทรายเพื่อทํ าเปนมอรตาร นอกจากนี้ยังใชเถาถานหินแทนที่ปูนซีเมนตปอรดแลนด ประเภทที่ 1 ในปริมาณรอยละ 20 โดยนํ้ าหนัก โดยใชคาตาลิสตมาแทนที่ทรายเชนกัน การวิจัยครั้งนี้ยังไดนํ าเม็ดคาตาลิสต มาบดใหละเอียดเพื่อใชแทนที่ปูนซีเมนตปอรตแลนดเหมือนเถาถานหิน ทํ าการทด...

The understanding of nanomaterials for targeted cancer therapy is of great importance as physical parameters of nanomaterials have been shown to be strong determinants that can promote cellular responses. However, there have been rare platforms that can vastly tune the core of nanoparticles at a molecular level despite various nanomaterials employed in such studies. Here we show targeted photod...

Transition metal disulfides have been attracting significant attentions in recent years. There are extensive applications of transition metal disulfides, especially on gas sensing applications, due to their large specific surface-to-volume ratios, high sensitivity to adsorption of gas molecules and tunable surface functionality depending on the decoration species or functional groups. However, ...

Aspects of the chemistry of selected metal fluorides, which are pertinent to their real or potential use as Lewis acidic, heterogeneous catalysts, are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to β-aluminum trifluoride, aluminum chlorofluoride and aluminas γ and η, whose surfaces become partially fluorinated or chlorinated, through pre-treatment with halogenating reagents or during a catalytic rea...

the role played by soil constituents in governing temporal trends of metal mobility in calcareousmediterranean soils deserves special attention due to the particular soil and climate characteristics. reactionsoccurring during the aging modify the metal mobility over time, and the rate of metal application and type ofsoil can be decisive in the outcome of aging reactions in soils. the aim of the...

Good quality, highly monodispersed capped copper metal nanoparticles have been synthesised in a non-hydrolytic approach using thermal decomposition of the Cu(II) precursor [Cu(OCH(Me)CH2NMe2)2] in a hot coordinating solvent without further reducing agents; the copper nanoparticles have been characterised by optical spectroscopy (UV/VIS), electron microscopy (TEM), electron diffraction (SAED), a...