Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, 5,880-885
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00008F, Communication

Wei Chen, Haodong Tang, Nian Li, Manuel A. Scheel, Yue Xie, Depeng Li, Volker Körstgens, Matthias Schwartzkopf, Stephan V. Roth, Kai Wang, Xiao Wei Sun, Peter Müller-Buschbaum
The particle self-organization behavior of small-sized quantum dots is studied in situ with grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering and during the drying process two phase transitions are found.
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Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, 5,757-764
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00088D, Focus

Zongkui Kou, Wenjie Zang, Peikui Wang, Xin Li, John Wang
Evolution of heterogeneous catalysts with steady down-sizing: from small particles, clusters, dots to single atoms, and now the “surface heterocompound”.
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Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, 5,886-894
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00034E, Communication

Dongyang Zhao, Wenhui Tao, Songhao Li, Lingxiao Li, Yixin Sun, Guanting Li, Gang Wang, Yang Wang, Bin Lin, Cong Luo, Yongjun Wang, Maosheng Cheng, Zhonggui He, Jin Sun
Prodrug-nanoparticles turn the disadvantage of the aggregation-caused quenching effect into an advantage to promote dual-modality PR104A release. Besides, photodynamic therapy-induced hypoxia activates PR104A for high-efficiency synergistic therapy.
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Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, 5,756-756
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH90021D, Editorial

We would like to take this opportunity to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2019, as selected by the editorial team for their significant contribution to the journal.
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Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00180E, Communication

T. H. H. Le, A. Morita, T. Tanaka
Anomalously low refractive index of nanoconfined water.
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Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00139B, Communication

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Sun-Je Kim, Inki Kim, Sungwook Choi, Hyojin Yoon, Changhyun Kim, Yohan Lee, Chulsoo Choi, Junwoo Son, Yong Wook Lee, Junsuk Rho, Byoungho Lee
We demonstrated strong full-space modulation of visible intensities based on Fano resonances in all-dielectric VO₂ metasurface gratings.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00739C, Research Article

So-Huei Kang, Myeonggeun Han, Yongjoon Cho, Jisu Hong, Seongmin Heo, Seonghun Jeong, Yong-Young Noh, Changduk Yang
Two n-type pyridine and selenophene-containing polymers were synthesized and the structure–property relationships were investigated, followed by polarity switching from ambipolarity to unipolar characteristics via the doping method.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00719A, Research Article

Satoru Saotome, Kazumasa Suenaga, Kazuo Tanaka, Yoshiki Chujo
The solid-state emissive boron complex with multi-step mechanochromic luminescence was designed. The crystalline sample showed gradual changes in luminescent color triggered by scratching. The design concept is illustrated.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00108B, Research Article

Chun-Yen Chou, Robert Sung, Wei-Luen Chang, Kuangsen Sung
A novel green-fluorescent-protein-chromophore-based tripodal receptor 1 is synthesized. Its single crystal X-ray diffraction structure looks like a straight, long tube with one end closed. The diameter of the inner cavity...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00201A, Research Article

Jinfeng Zheng, Xiao Lian, Mingzai Wu, Fangcai Zheng, Yuan hao Gao, Helin Niu
Ni3S4 quantum dots (QDs) have great potential for supercapacitors due to their unique quantum effects, high specific surface area, high water solubility and good stability, but the current preparation process...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00123F, Research Article

Zhuohan Zhang, Linqiang Yang, Zhenghao Hu, Jiangsheng Yu, Xin Liu, Hongtao Wang, Jinru Cao, Fujun Zhang, Weihua Tang
Charge density modulation on thieno[2'',3'':5',6']-s-indaceno[2',1':4,5]dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyrrole core has been conducted for a systematic study of its impact on the electronic structure, molecular packing and photovoltaic performance of asymmetric fused-ring acceptors.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00113A, Research Article

Guangxi Huang, Xiaoyong Chang, Yuqing Jiang, Bei Lin, Bing Shi Li, Ben Zhong Tang
Two carboxyl substituted cyanostilbene derivatives can serve as novel mechanoluminescence materials and fluorescent sensors towards pH change and also amine vapors.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00780F, Research Article

Chong-Yong Lee, Sepidar Sayyar, Paul J. Molino, Gordon G. Wallace
We fabricated a 3D-printed multilayer conductive graphene/polycaprolactone composite electrode that shows excellent robustness, biocompatibility and electrochemical response.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00115E, Research Article

Min Zhang, Yannan Yang, Yang Liu, Jianye Fu, Jingyi Lu, Yang Yang, Jinqing Jiao, Chengzhong Yu
A general 3D nanosponge enabled strategy is developed to achieve simultaneously highly dispersed and high content functionalization of metal oxide species, ebabling a liabrary of functional nanostructures with great application potential.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00116C, Research Article

Qi-Sheng Tian, Xiang-Dong Zhu, Liang-Sheng Liao
A high performance green exciplex OLED comprising a novel electron donor DEX with an acceptor PO-T2T can reach an EQE_max of 11.2%, and a red phosphorescent OLED incorporating the green exciplex forming co-host achieves an EQE_max of 24.5%.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00187B, Research Article

Si-Ying Niu, Ruoyu Zhang, Chongfeng Guo
The photocatalytic performance of semiconductor can be enhanced by expanding the spectral response and accelerating the photo-induced charge separation. Introduction of oxygen vacancies and construction of homo-junction in BiOCl were...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00152J, Research Article

Bo Liu, Han Hsiang Tai, Hanyuan Liang, En-Yan Zheng, Mamina Sahoo, Chih-Hsien Hsu, Tsung Cheng Chen, Ching-An Huang, Jer-Chyi Wang, Tuo-Hung Hou, Chao-Sung Lai
In the past decade, graphene has aroused worldwide academic passion in electronic community, due to its unique two dimensional lattice structure and high mobility properties. Meanwhile, the utilization of graphene...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00094A, Research Article

Zi Xiao, Jiuding Liu, Guilan Fan, Meng Yu, Junxiang Liu, Xinglong Gou, Mingjian Yuan, Fangyi Cheng
Lithium-rich layered oxides (LLO), as the most attractive cathode materials for high-energy lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), are plagued by poor cyclability due to structural and electrode/electrolyte interface instability. Herein, we report...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00025F, Review Article

Kaojin Wang, Kamran Amin, Zesheng An, Zhengxu Cai, Hong Chen, Hongzheng Chen, Yuping Dong, Xiao Feng, Weiqiang Fu, Jiabao Gu, Yanchun Han, Doudou Hu, Rongrong Hu, Die Huang, Fei Huang, Feihe Huang, Yuzhang Huang, Jian Jin, Xin Jin, Qianqian Li, Tengfei Li, Zhen Li, Zhibo Li, Jiangang Liu, Jing Liu, Shiyong Liu, Huisheng Peng, Anjun Qin, Xin Qing, Youqing Shen, Jianbing Shi, Xuemei Sun, Bin Tong, Bo Wang, Hu Wang, Lixiang Wang, Shu Wang, Zhixiang Wei, Tao Xie, Chunye Xu, Huaping Xu, Zhi-Kang Xu, Bai Yang, Yanlei Yu, Xuan Zeng, Xiaowei Zhan, Guangzhao Zhang, Jie Zhang, Ming Qiu Zhang, Xian-Zheng Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Changsheng Zhao, Weifeng Zhao, Yongfeng Zhou, Zhuxian Zhou, Jintao Zhu, Xinyuan Zhu, Ben Zhong Tang
This review presents the recent developments in the research hotspots of advanced functional polymers; their concepts, design strategies, and applications are briefly discussed.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00048E, Research Article

Bo-Ren Lin, Horng-Long Cheng, Hung-Han Lin, Fu-Chiao Wu, Jia-Hui Lin, Wei-Yang Chou, Jrjeng Ruan, Yu-Wu Wang
Polymeric transistors with unexpected nondecaying features even in ambient air are fabricated based on a P3HT/PMMA pseudo-bilayer with microphase separation morphology.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00097C, Research Article

K. Kniec, K. Ledwa, K. Maciejewska, L. Marciniak
The relative sensitivity and usable temperature range of Fe³⁺,Cr³⁺-based luminescent thermometers can be tuned by modification of the crystal field strength.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00154F, Research Article

Liming Lai, Bing Fang, Wenyu Cheng, Pengyu Li, Yantu Zhang, Meizhen Yin
An AIEgen with tunable polymorphism-dependent emission and solvent regulated crystal-to-crystal switch properties is reported. Our study has provided insight into the relationship between molecular stacking and emission properties.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00014K, Research Article

Jin Wang, Meng Gao, Zhong-Kai Cui, Yong-Guang Jia, Sa Liu, Kai-Feng Chen, Xiaohui Chen, Yiqing Zhang, Zhou Fang, Yunhua Chen, Kaojin Wang, Huatang Zhang, Lin Wang, Li Ren
Dual-responsive poly(vinyl alcohol) derivatives bearing AIEgens and quaternary ammonium moieties were prepared through a facile one-pot quaternization for the pH-switchable imaging and killing of bacteria.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00198H, Research Article

Yiming Bai, Chunyan Zhao, Rongkang Shi, Jun Wang, Fuzhi Wang, Tasawar Hayat, Ahmed Alsaedi, Zhan'ao Tan
Electrode buffer layer plays a more crucial in semi-transparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) than that of the opaque devices due to the additional requirements of the average visible transmittance (AVT)...
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1404-1410
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00549H, Research Article

Hongyue Zhang, Jiancong Liu, Bolun Wang, Kaikai Liu, Guangrui Chen, Xiaowei Yu, Jiyang Li, Jihong Yu
CD@zeolite composites with tunable TADF emission via an energy transfer process between confined CDs.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1434-1443
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00051E, Research Article

Hanmei Jiang, Yifu Zhang, Zhenghui Pan, Lei Xu, Jiqi Zheng, Zhanming Gao, Tao Hu, Changgong Meng, John Wang
NH₄V₃O₈·0.5H₂O nanobelts are synthesized by a low-temperature hydrothermal process, and exhibit high electrochemical performance in ARZIBs.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1328-1339
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00639G, Review Article

Cheuk-Fai Chow, Anxun Zheng, Min Huang, Chang Shen
Disassembly is an essential process in supramolecular chemistry. In this review, different bimetallic donor–acceptor-based chemosensors, chemodosimeters, catalysts and latent catalysts founded on various displacement assays will be discussed.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1444-1453
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00734B, Research Article

Jinhang Li, Jiawei Chen, Leimeng Xu, Sinan Liu, Si Lan, Xiansheng Li, Jizhong Song
A zinc non-halide dopant strategy is employed to clarify the internal mechanism of Zn²⁺ doping without the introduction of halide ions and enhance the emission properties evidenced by the EQE of the QLEDs from 7.5% to 14.6% after Zn²⁺ doping.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1471-1482
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00792J, Research Article

Jonnagaddala Harathi, Kathavarayan Thenmozhi
AIE-active Schiff base compounds were synthesized and photophysical properties were investigated. The compounds exhibited prominent sensing behaviour towards Fe³⁺ ion with enhanced selectivity, high association constants and low detection limits.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1390-1396
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00079E, Research Article

Beibei Guo, Ruguang Ma, Zichuang Li, Jun Luo, Minghui Yang, Jiacheng Wang
Ru and Ni co-doped Co₃O₄ with improved OER activity were synthesized by a one-step hydrothermal method. Ru doping increases the intrinsic activity, while Ni doping creates more oxygen vacancies and exposes more active sites.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1459-1470
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00062K, Research Article

Yue Jiang, Ziyang Liu, Zhigang Yin, Qingdong Zheng
A novel type of polymer sandwich dielectric is developed for air-stable, hysteresis-free and flexible OTFTs which can be used for low-power pressure sensors with ultrahigh sensitivity, wide detection range and fast response.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1519-1529
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00056F, Research Article

Hayato Togano, Kaisei Asai, Seiji Oda, Hidekazu Ikeno, Shogo Kawaguchi, Kengo Oka, Kouhei Wada, Shunsuke Yagi, Ikuya Yamada
Oxygen-deficient double perovskite oxides PrBaCo₂O_6−δ exhibit highly active hydrogen evolution reaction catalysis, which is associated with multiple factors: oxygen deficiency, high Co valence, and A-site cation ordering.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1397-1403
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00753A, Research Article

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Yupeng Cao, Xiajun Hu, Qiang Zhang, Wenda Hua, Nan Hu, Yifeng Nie, Xue Xu, Yonggang Xu, Chongqing Yang, Xiaohan Zhou, Wentao Liu, Dong Han
CW invasion by the primary tumor was inhibited by ISI of an LM. DCs were activated by the LM to sustain CR.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1366-1374
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00128G, Research Article

Jinyang Zhang, Xuan Sun, Yang Liu, Linrui Hou, Changzhou Yuan
Hierarchical yolk–shell Ni₂P/ZnP₂ hollow microspheres are smartly synthesized, and exhibit exceptional OER performance, benefiting from their unique compositional/structural merits.
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Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00033G, Research Article

Hai-Jing Yin, Zhi-Ping Zhang, Yu Guo, Kun Yuan, Ya-Wen Zhang
PtRuCu NFs/C exhibited much higher mass activity and specific activity than commercial Pt/C and PtRuCu NPs/C towards the MOR due to the frame nanostructures and the synergistic effect of the trimetallics.
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