Many next-generation technologies are limited by material performance, leading to increased interest in the discovery of advanced materials using combinatorial synthesis, characterization, and screening. Several combinatorial synthesis techniques, such as solution based methods, advanced manufacturing, and physical vapor deposition, are currently being employed for various applications. In part...

Nanocrystalline YMnO(3) has been prepared by wet chemical synthesis routes to obtain crystallites with sizes from 20 nm to bulk material. The crystal structure of hexagonal YMnO(3) nanocrystallites smaller than 80 nm deviates from bulk material in terms of unit cell distortion and unit cell volume. The ferrielectric displacements of Y(3+) cations along the polar c-axis decays progressively with...

Plasmachemical surface modification of porous polystyrene beads with allylamine or diaminopropane provides reactive amine functionality exclusively at accessible surface sites, allowing faster reactions than classically prepared materials.

We show that combining concepts generally used in covalent organic synthesis such as retrosynthetic analysis and the use of protecting groups, and applying them to the self-assembly of polymeric building blocks in multiple steps, results in a powerful strategy for the self-assembly of dynamic materials with a high level of architectural control. We present a highly efficient synthesis of bifunc...

Databases dedicated to predicted inorganic crystal structures are emerging fast. Possible applications are listed, from identification through the powder diffraction pattern fingerprint, leading to crystal structure determination before estimation of the cell parameters of newly synthesized real compounds, to the prediction of interesting properties of still unknown materials, allowing chemical...

Transition-metal-catalyzed alkylation reactions of arenes have become a central transformation in organic synthesis. Herein, we report the first general strategy for alkylation of arenes with styrenes and alcohols catalyzed by carbon-based materials, exploiting the unique property of graphenes to produce valuable diarylalkane products in high yields and excellent regioselectivity. The protocol ...

Three researchers share this year ́s Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Dr. Yves Chauvin at the Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France; Professor Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA and Professor Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences citation runs “for the d...

An "inorganic micelle" structure that has a hydrophilic cavity and hydrophobic surface has been synthesized. The inorganic micelles possess large surface area and controllable hydrophobic/hydrophilic interface. It shows high catalytic efficiency and great recyclability in the bromination of alcohols. This work suggests that inorganic micelles may be suitable for selective organic syntheses as w...

3,5-Diamino-1,2,4-triazole (DAT) became a significant energetic materials intermediate, and the study of its reaction mechanism has fundamental significance in chemistry. The aim of this study is to investigate the ability of online attenuated total reflection infrared (ATR-IR) spectroscopy combined with the novel approach of hybrid hard- and soft-modelling multivariate curve resolution-alterna...