Chemical Communications Blog

A new titanium dioxide-supported polyaniline iron catalyst exhibits improved catalytic activity for oxygen reduction when compared to traditional carbon-supported materials. With prohibitive costs of current platinum-based catalysts used in polymer electrolyte fuel cells this new catalyst material might be the cheaper alternative.

Piotr Zelenay, Gang Wu and co-workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a collaborator from the University of South Carolina, published their findings in ChemComm.

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Amino, bromo, nitro, and naphthalene functionalized UiO-66 metal–organic frameworks have been synthesised using reticular chemistry.

Researchers Seth Cohen and Sergio Garibay from the University of California, in the US, have reported their findings in ChemComm. Fancy reading more? Then why not download the article today which is free to access until the 5th November and blog some comments below.

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Hydrated ionic liquids can be used as buffers, according to scientists have shown that it is possible to control proton activity, or pH, in concentrated ionic media. These ionic liquid buffers can help to establish and maintain pH in a variety of ionic liquid applications where solutes or processes are highly sensitive to proton activity in the medium.

Douglas MacFarlane and colleagues from Monash University, in Australia and co-workers based at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in the US, have reported their findings in ChemComm.

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Japanese scientists have made a simple structural mimic of multipass transmembrane (MTM) proteins, one of the most common types of membrane protein.

Kazushi Kinbara, at Tohoku University, and colleagues made alternating amphiphilic multiblock molecules consisting of linearly connected hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties. They found that the hydrophobic units stacked face-to-face  to give folded structures, like those of MTM proteins.

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Calcium plays a central role in many signalling pathways, including neuronal and sensory function. Now scientists in Germany have shown that surface plasmon resonance can be used to monitor Ca²⁺-induced conformational changes in a Ca²⁺-sensor protein immobilised on a chip.

Daniele Dell’Orco and colleagues at the University of Oldenburg, Germany describe their study in a recently published ChemComm communication. Download the article for free until 25th October.

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Chinese scientists have transformed graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets into efficient fluorescent emitters by functionalising their surfaces with alkylamines. The fluorescence quantum yields of the bright blue fluorescent GOs are enhanced up to 600 times compared with the original GO.

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Anionic boron- and gallium-containing N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) analogues display contrasting reactivity towards the half-sandwich titanium complex. Where one reacts to form the first example of a titanium gallyl compound, the other reaction (with boron NHC) generates a dearomatised pyridyl fragment.

Cameron Jones and his team from Monash University have collaborated once again with Simon Aldridge, Philip Mountford and colleagues at Oxford University, publishing their results in ChemComm. Why not download the article today and blog some comments below? The article is free to access until the 8th October 2010.

Tin-doped Indium oxide, a widely used conductor in optoelectronic devices, has been used to form microelectrodes that can be patterned in both 1D and 3D arrays, by direct-write assembly of sol–gel inks with varying concentration.

Jennifer A. Lewis and co-workers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the US, have published their results in ChemComm and they believe the approach may open up new avenues for fabricating printed electronic and optoelectronic devices in unusual layouts.

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Large-scale fabrication of highly ordered gold nanochannel monolayers has been demonstrated by scientists in Japan. Yingpu Bi and Jinhua Ye fron the National Institute for Materials Science, in Tsukuba, have used the galvanic replacement reaction over aligned silver nanowire arrays, which can be employed as a simple and powerful cold-welding technique to make these gold nanochannels.

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