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Artificial water channels – read all the articles and discussions

01 Oct 2018

We are delighted to share the articles and discussions on Artificial water channels published in our latest volume of Faraday Discussions.

Highlights include:

Open Access
Single-file transport of water through membrane channels
Andreas Horner and Peter Pohl
Faraday Discuss., 2018, 209, 9–33

Hyperpolarised NMR to follow water proton transport through membrane channels via exchange with biomolecules
Viorel Nastasa, Cristina Stavarache, Anamaria Hanganu, Adina Coroaba, Alina Nicolescu, Calin Deleanu, Aude Sadet and Paul R. Vasos
Faraday Discuss., 2018, 209, 67–82

Open Access
Water and hydrophobic gates in ion channels and nanopores
Shanlin Rao, Charlotte I. Lynch, Gianni Klesse, Georgia E. Oakley, Phillip J. Stansfeld, Stephen J. Tucker and Mark S. P. Sansom
Faraday Discuss., 2018, 209, 231–247

Open Access
Molecular dynamics simulations of carbon nanotube porins in lipid bilayers
Martin Vögele, Jürgen Köfinger and Gerhard Hummer
Faraday Discuss., 2018, 209, 341–358

Artificial water channels: inspiration, progress, and challenges
Bing Gong
Faraday Discuss., 2018, 209, 415–427

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Don’t miss your chance to submit an abstract for Nanolithography of biointerfaces

Oral abstract deadline: 11 October 2018

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Nanolithography of biointerfaces – oral abstract deadline 11 October

13 Sep 2018

We’ll be discussing some of the latest developments in nanolithography of biointerfaces at our Faraday Discussions meeting in London, UK from 3–5 July 2019.

Topics for debate include multidimensional micro- and nano-printing technologies, preparation of multivalent glycan micro- and nano-arrays, glycan interactions on glycocalyx mimetic surfaces, as well as surface functionalization and characterization.

Our programme includes an excellent line-up of speakers:

Peter Seeberger (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces),
Elisa Riedo (NYU – Tandon School of Engineering),
Ten Feizi (Imperial College London),
Laura Kiessling (MIT)
Yoshiko Miura (Kyushu University),
Zijian Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
and many more…

We hope you can join us: submit your oral abstract by 11 October!

In the meantime we’ve collected together some recent articles in this area from across the Royal Society of Chemistry porfolio to whet your appetite. Happy reading!

Chemical formation of soft metal electrodes for flexible and wearable electronics
Dongrui Wang, Yaokang Zhang, Xi Lu, Zhijun Ma, Chuan Xie and Zijian Zheng
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2018, 47, 4611-4641

Omnipotent phosphorene: a next-generation, two-dimensional nanoplatform for multidisciplinary biomedical applications
Meng Qiu, Wen Xiu Ren, Taeho Jeong, Miae Won, Geun Young Park, David Kipkemoi Sang, Li-Ping Liu, Han Zhang and Jong Seung Kim
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2018, 47, 5588-5601

Towards scanning probe lithography-based 4D nanoprinting by advancing surface chemistry, nanopatterning strategies, and characterization protocols
Xiaoming Liu, Carlos Carbonell and Adam B. Braunschweig
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2016, 45, 6289-6310

Towards dial-a-molecule by integrating continuous flow, analytics and self-optimisation
Victor Sans and Leroy Cronin
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2016, 45, 2032-2043

Open Access
Biodegradable poly(amidoamine)s with uniform degradation fragments via sequence-controlled macromonomers
F. Ebbesen, C. Gerke, P. Hartwig and L. Hartmann
Polym. Chem., 2016, 7, 7086-7093

Open Access
Hierarchical supramolecular hydrogels: self-assembly by peptides and photo-controlled release via host–guest interaction
Chih-Wei Chu and Bart Jan Ravoo
Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 12450-12453

Open Access
Controlling destructive quantum interference in tunneling junctions comprising self-assembled monolayers via bond topology and functional groups
Yanxi Zhang, Gang Ye, Saurabh Soni, Xinkai Qiu, Theodorus L. Krijger, Harry T. Jonkman, Marco Carlotti, Eric Sauter, Michael Zharnikov and Ryan C. Chiechi
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 4414-4423

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Designing nanoparticle systems for catalysis – published online

06 Sep 2018

We are delighted to announce that the latest volume of Faraday Discussions on Designing nanoparticle systems for catalysis has now been published online. The volume includes the paper presented in London, UK in May 2018 alongside a record of all the discussions, questions and comments from the delegates at the meeting.

Highlights include:

Supported cluster catalysts synthesized to be small, simple, selective, and stable
Erjia Guan, Chia-Yu Fang, Dong Yang, Liang Wang, Feng-Shou Xiao and Bruce C. Gates
Faraday Discuss., 2018, 208, 9-33

Perspectives on the design of nanoparticle systems for catalysis
Cynthia M. Friend and Fang Xu
Faraday Discuss., 2018, 208, 595-607

One pot microwave synthesis of highly stable AuPd@Pd supported core–shell nanoparticles
Alexander G. R. Howe, Peter J. Miedziak, David J. Morgan, Qian He, Peter Strasser and Jennifer K. Edwards
Faraday Discuss., 2018, 208, 409-425

Open Access
Continuous synthesis of hollow silver–palladium nanoparticles for catalytic applications
Ke-Jun Wu, Yunhu Gao and Laura Torrente-Murciano
Faraday Discuss., 2018, 208, 427-441

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Mechanistic processes in organometallic chemistry – Oral deadline 17 October

21 Aug 2018

We are looking forward to our Faraday Discussions meeting on Mechanistic processes in organometallic chemistry in York, UK from 2–4 September 2019.

We’ll be discussing current understanding of unusual element-element bond formation and activation, physical methods & computational approaches for mechanistic understanding, plus mechanistic insight into organic and industrial transformations.

The oral abstract deadline is approaching! Submit your abstract by 17 October for the opportunity to discuss your work with an excellent line-up of speakers including Odile Eisenstein, Thomas Braun, Jeremy Harvey, Aiwen Lei, Guy Lloyd-Jones, Jennifer Love and more.

To get you in the mood, we encourage you to read some of the excellent related reviews and original research recently published in a range of Royal Society of Chemistry journals. Several are free to access – enjoy!

Access to the meta position of arenes through transition metal catalysed C–H bond functionalisation: a focus on metals other than palladium
Madalina T. Mihai, Georgi R. Genov and Robert J. Phipps
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2018, 47, 149-171

Open Access
A lesson for site-selective C–H functionalization on 2-pyridones: radical, organometallic, directing group and steric controls
Koji Hirano and Masahiro Miura
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 22-32

Open Access
Metal alkyls programmed to generate metal alkylidenes by α-H abstraction: prognosis from NMR chemical shift
Christopher P. Gordon, Keishi Yamamoto, Keith Searles, Satoru Shirase, Richard A. Andersen, Odile Eisenstein and Christophe Copéret
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 1912-1918

Quantitative DFT modeling of product concentration in organometallic reactions: Cu-mediated pentafluoroethylation of benzoic acid chlorides as a case study
Jesús Jover
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 29344-29353

N – and S-donor leaving groups in triazole-based ruthena(II)cycles: potent anticancer activity, selective activation, and mode of action studies
Christoph A. Riedl, Michaela Hejl, Matthias H. M. Klose, Alexander Roller, Michael A. Jakupec, Wolfgang Kandioller and Bernhard K. Keppler
Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 4625-4638

Open Access
New activation mechanism for half-sandwich organometallic anticancer complexes
Samya Banerjee, Joan J. Soldevila-Barreda, Juliusz A. Wolny, Christopher A. Wootton, Abraha Habtemariam, Isolda Romero-Canelón, Feng Chen, Guy J. Clarkson, Ivan Prokes, Lijiang Song, Peter B. O’Connor, Volker Schünemann and Peter J. Sadler
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 3177-3185

Open Access
Selective oxymetalation of terminal alkynes via 6-endo cyclization: mechanistic investigation and application to the efficient synthesis of 4-substituted isocoumarins
Yuji Kita, Tetsuji Yata, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Kouji Chiba and Makoto Yasuda
Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 6041-6052

Selective formation of phthalimides from amines, aldehydes and CO by Pd-catalyzed oxidative C–H aminocarbonylation
Renyi Shi, Fan Liao, Huiying Niu and Aiwen Lei
Org. Chem. Front., 2018, 5, 1957-1961

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Most downloaded Faraday Discussions articles from 2017

26 Jul 2018

We are delighted to share this collection of the most read articles from last year’s diverse range of Faraday Discussions. From fundamental studies to applied research, these articles showcase the breadth of topics being discussed by world renowned researchers, with many available Open Access.

Our most downloaded articles from 2017:

Introductory lecture: sunlight-driven water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction by heterogeneous semiconductor systems as key processes in artificial photosynthesis
Takashi Hisatomi and Kazunari Domen
Faraday Discuss., 2017, 198, 11-35

Introductory lecture: recent research progress on aggregation-induced emission
Yuancheng Wang, Guanxin Zhang, Meng Gao, Yuanjing Cai, Chi Zhan, Zujin Zhao, Deqing Zhang and Ben Zhong Tang
Faraday Discuss., 2017, 196, 9-30

Open Access
An integrated biorefinery concept for conversion of sugar beet pulp into value-added chemicals and pharmaceutical intermediates
Max Cárdenas-Fernández, Maria Bawn, Charlotte Hamley-Bennett, Penumathsa K. V. Bharat, Fabiana Subrizi, Nurashikin Suhaili, David P. Ward, Sarah Bourdin, Paul A. Dalby, Helen C. Hailes, Peter Hewitson, Svetlana Ignatova, Cleo Kontoravdi, David J. Leak, Nilay Shah, Tom D. Sheppard, John M. Ward and Gary J. Lye
Faraday Discuss., 2017, 202, 415-431

Open Access
Halogen bonding, chalcogen bonding, pnictogen bonding, tetrel bonding: origins, current status and discussion
Lee Brammer
Faraday Discuss., 2017, 203, 485-507

Open Access
Structure–property–activity relationships in a pyridine containing azine-linked covalent organic framework for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Frederik Haase, Tanmay Banerjee, Gökcen Savasci, Christian Ochsenfeld and Bettina V. Lotsch
Faraday Discuss., 2017, 201, 247-264

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Carbon dioxide sees the light

20 Oct 2015

Collaborators in Spain and Germany have built a microreactor that uses visible light to drive a reaction that turns carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide – an important chemical building block.

The reverse water–gas shift (RWGS) reaction converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen into carbon monoxide and water and is often performed at high temperatures over a copper catalyst. Scientists around the world are working to design more efficient catalysts so that the RWGS reaction can proceed at lower temperatures but many of these can’t be used in industry due to the poor transition from lab to reactor. Now, Alexander Navarrete, from the University of Valladolid in Spain, has taken on this challenge by combining the catalyst and the reactor in one small device. Read the full article in Chemistry World»

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Novel windows for “solar commodities”: a device for CO₂ reduction using plasmonic catalyst activation
Alexander Navarrete, Sergio Muñoz, Luis M. Sanz-Moral, Juergen J. Brandner, Peter Pfeifer, Ángel Martín, Roland Dittmeyer and María J. Cocero
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00109A, Paper

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Cheap and sensitive test for a key prostate cancer marker

11 Sep 2015

Scientists in Italy have developed a cheap and disposable sensor that can detect the presence of the prostate cancer biomarker sarcosine in urine.

Worldwide, prostate cancer is the second most common tumour in males and is responsible for more than 250,000 deaths each year. An early diagnosis – when the tumour is organ-confined – dramatically improves the success of therapy and is achieved by monitoring certain marker molecules. Read the full article in Chemistry World»

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An electrochemiluminescent-supramolecular approach to sarcosine detection for early diagnosis of prostate cancer
Giovanni Valenti, Enrico Rampazzo, Elisa Biavardi, Elena Villani, Giulio Fracasso, Massimo Marcaccio, Federico Bertani, Dunia Ramaldi, Enrico Dalcanale, Francesco Paolucci and Luca Prodi
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00096C, Paper

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Most read articles in Faraday Discussions: January-March 2015

08 May 2015

Read on to find out which Faraday Discussions articles your colleagues were downloading between January and March 2015!

AuAg bimetallic nanoparticles: formation, silica-coating and selective etching
Benito Rodríguez-González, Ana Sánchez-Iglesias, Michael Giersig and Luis M. Liz-Marzán
DOI: 10.1039/B303205A

In situ Raman study of lithium-ion intercalation into microcrystalline graphite
Christopher Sole, Nicholas E. Drewett and Laurence J. Hardwick
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00079J

Hydrogen evolution on nano-particulate transition metal sulfides
Jacob Bonde, Poul G. Moses, Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jens K. Nørskov and Ib Chorkendorff
DOI: 10.1039/B803857K

Control parameters for electrochemically relevant materials: the significance of size and complexity
J. Maier
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00135D

Systems materials engineering approach for solar-to-chemical conversion
Chong Liu and Peidong Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00264D

Inkjet printing of graphene
Kirill Arapov, Robert Abbel, Gijsbertus de With and Heiner Friedrich
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00067F

Imaging molecular structure through femtosecond photoelectron diffraction on aligned and oriented gas-phase molecules
Rebecca Boll, Arnaud Rouzée, Marcus Adolph, Denis Anielski, Andrew Aquila, Sadia Bari, Cédric Bomme, Christoph Bostedt, John D. Bozek, Henry N. Chapman, Lauge Christensen, Ryan Coffee, Niccola Coppola, Sankar De, Piero Decleva, Sascha W. Epp, Benjamin Erk, Frank Filsinger, Lutz Foucar, Tais Gorkhover, Lars Gumprecht, André Hömke, Lotte Holmegaard, Per Johnsson, Jens S. Kienitz, Thomas Kierspel, Faton Krasniqi, Kai-Uwe Kühnel, Jochen Maurer, Marc Messerschmidt, Robert Moshammer, Nele L. M. Müller, Benedikt Rudek, Evgeny Savelyev, Ilme Schlichting, Carlo Schmidt, Frank Scholz, Sebastian Schorb, Joachim Schulz, Jörn Seltmann, Mauro Stener, Stephan Stern, Simone Techert, Jan Thøgersen, Sebastian Trippel, Jens Viefhaus, Marc Vrakking, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Jochen Küpper, Joachim Ullrich, Artem Rudenko and Daniel Rolles
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00037D

Effects of structural disorder and surface chemistry on electric conductivity and capacitance of porous carbon electrodes
Boris Dyatkin and Yury Gogotsi
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00048J

Methodologies for the analysis of instantaneous lipid diffusion in md simulations of large membrane systems
Matthieu Chavent, Tyler Reddy, Joseph Goose, Anna Caroline E. Dahl, John E. Stone, Bruno Jobard and Mark S. P. Sansom
DOI: 10.1039/C3FD00145H

Importance of many-body orientational correlations in the physical description of liquids
Hajime Tanaka
DOI: 10.1039/C3FD00110E

Enhanced oxygen evolution activity by NiO_x and Ni(OH)₂ nanoparticles
Lucas-Alexandre Stern and Xile Hu
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00120F

Comparison of photoelectrochemical water oxidation activity of a synthetic photocatalyst system with photosystem II
Yi-Hsuan Lai, Masaru Kato, Dirk Mersch and Erwin Reisner
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00059E

Characterization and simulation of electrolyte-gated organic field-effect transistors
Katharina Melzer, Marcel Brändlein, Bogdan Popescu, Dan Popescu, Paolo Lugli and Giuseppe Scarpa
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00095A

Signal to noise considerations for single crystal femtosecond time resolved crystallography of the Photoactive Yellow Protein
Jasper J. van Thor, Mark M. Warren, Craig N. Lincoln, Matthieu Chollet, Henrik Till Lemke, David M. Fritz, Marius Schmidt, Jason Tenboer, Zhong Ren, Vukica Srajer, Keith Moffat and Tim Graber
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00011K

Electrochemical conversion and storage systems: general discussion
Andrew Mount, Shizhao Xiong, Xuyi Shan, Hyun-Wook Lee, Xiaoliang Yu, Yimin Chao, Galen Stucky, Gang Chen, Zhen Qi, Graham Hutchings, Yiren Zhong, Rudolf Holze, Wei Han, Lee Cronin, Shihe Yang, Hong Li, Xiang Hong, Erwin Reisner, Yong Yang, Weimin Xuan, Clare Grey, Ram Seshadri, Liqiang Mai, Jiafang Xie, Fuping Pan, Zhonghua Li, Joachim Maier, Zhongqun Tian, Yanxia Chen, Bingwei Mao, Heinz Frei, Changxu Lin, Fenglin Liao, Deyu Liu, Nanfeng Zheng, Rui Lin, Rose-Noelle Vannier, Dehui Deng, John M. Griffin, Nenad Markovic, Haimei Zheng and Ryoji Kanno
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD90001H

A GPU-accelerated immersive audio-visual framework for interaction with molecular dynamics using consumer depth sensors
David R. Glowacki, Michael O’Connor, Gaetano Calabró, James Price, Philip Tew, Thomas Mitchell, Joseph Hyde, David P. Tew, David J. Coughtrie and Simon McIntosh-Smith
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00008K

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy: new materials, concepts, characterization tools, and applications
Jon A. Dieringer, Adam D. McFarland, Nilam C. Shah, Douglas A. Stuart, Alyson V. Whitney, Chanda R. Yonzon, Matthew A. Young, Xiaoyu Zhang and Richard P. Van Duyne
DOI: 10.1039/B513431P

Electrochemical characterisation of graphene nanoflakes with functionalised edges
Mailis M. Lounasvuori, Martin Rosillo-Lopez, Christoph G. Salzmann, Daren J. Caruana and Katherine B. Holt
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00034J

Nanodiamond surface redox chemistry: influence of physicochemical properties on catalytic processes
Thomas S. Varley, Meetal Hirani, George Harrison and Katherine B. Holt
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00041B

Oxygen reduction reaction by electrochemically reduced graphene oxide
Santosh Kumar Bikkarolla, Peter Cumpson, Paul Joseph and Pagona Papakonstantinou
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00088A

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Electrical component hitches a ride with mechanical support

02 Jul 2014

A new composite material that can simultaneously withstand mechanical loads and store electrical energy has been created by scientists in the UK and Belgium. Based on activated carbon fibres, the structural supercapacitor has been formed into a full-size car boot lid that can power LEDs.

Read the full article in Chemistry World»

Read the original article in Faraday Discussions – it’s free to access until 8th August:
FD 172: Multifunctional Structural Energy Storage Composite Supercapacitors
Natasha Shirshova, Hui Qian, Matthieu Houlle, Quentin Fontana, Joachim H G Steinke, Anthony R.J. Kucernak, Emile Greenhalgh, Alexander Bismarck and Milo Sebastian Peter Shaffer
Faraday Discuss., 2014, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00055B

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Nucleation: an article collection and an upcoming meeting

20 Jun 2014

We are delighted to highlight some excellent research recently published in a range of Royal Society of Chemistry journals on a theme of nucleation and its role in directing the assembly of materials.

Nucleation – A Transition State to the Directed Assembly of Materials is also the topic of a Faraday Discussions meeting taking place in Leeds, UK from 3 March – 1 April 2015.

Find out more about the meeting on our website and then submit your oral abstract via our submission system today. The deadline is 30 June 2014.

You can also find more details about what makes Faraday Discussions different from other meetings.

We hope you enjoy the following selection of reviews and original research:

Crystallising trimesic acid from DMSO solutions – can crystallography teach us anything about the process of crystal nucleation?
Roger J. Davey, Monika Brychczynska, Ghazala Sadiq, Geoffrey Dent and Robin G. Pritchard
CrystEngComm, 2013,15, 856-859
DOI: 10.1039/C2CE26712H

Ionic co-crystals of racetams: solid-state properties enhancement of neutral active pharmaceutical ingredients via addition of Mg2+ and Ca2+ chlorides
Fabrizia Grepioni, Johan Wouters, Dario Braga, Saverio Nanna, Baptiste Fours, Gérard Coquerel, Geraldine Longfils, Sandrine Rome, Luc Aerts and Luc Quéré
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00409D

Pre-nucleation clusters as solute precursors in crystallisation
Denis Gebauer, Matthias Kellermeier, Julian D. Gale, Lennart Bergström and Helmut Cölfen
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2014, 43, 2348-2371
DOI: 10.1039/C3CS60451A

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