Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

This year, as you may know, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C are celebrating their 10th anniversary! To join in the celebrations, we’ve asked authors to find creative ways to add a ’10’ to the cover artwork and are excited to show you the results in our monthly cover showcase.

To join in the celebration, you can view the #JMCs10Years hashtag on Twitter and follow the posts for the year so far.

Here are this month’s covers

Development of visible-light-responsive Ru-doped KTaO3 photocatalyst for overall water splitting with one-step photoexcitation and the effects of codoping with La.	Molecular dynamics interpretation of hydrogen bonds for colorless, water-resistant, tough, and self-healable elastomers.	Engineered elastin-like polypeptide-based hydrogel delivering chemotherapeutics and PD-L1 antibodies for potentiated cancer immunotherapy	Organ bioprinting: progress, challenges and outlook.
Insights into the photovoltaic mechanism of organic photovoltaics under solar and artificial light.	Tailoring thin film transistor performance through plasma reactant manipulation in indium oxynitride films.	A study of the optical properties of wide bandgap oxides for a transparent photovoltaics platform.	Unlocking the potential of ketocoumarins: efficient photosensitizers for sustainable light driven hydrogen evolution.

This year, as you may know, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C are celebrating their 10th anniversary! To join in the celebrations, we’ve asked authors to find creative ways to add a ’10’ to the cover artwork and are excited to show you the results in our monthly cover showcase.

To join in the celebration, you can view the #JMCs10Years hashtag on Twitter and follow the posts for the year so far.

Here are this month’s covers:

Enhancing thermoelectric performance via relaxed spin polarization upon magnetic impurity doping	Urethane functions can reduce metal salts under hydrothermal conditions: synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles on flexible sponges applied in semi-automated organic reduction	Controlled synthesis of highly active bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting using coal-based activated carbons	Next-generation materials for RNA–lipid nanoparticles: lyophilization and targeted transfection
One-step antibacterial modification of polypropylene non-woven fabrics via oxidation using photo-activated chlorine dioxide radicals	Influence of Cu insertion on the thermoelectric properties of the quaternary cluster compounds Cu3M2Mo15Se19 (M = In, K) and Cu4In2Mo15Se19	Remarkable performance recovery in highly defective perovskite solar cells by photo-oxidation	The fluorination effect: the importance of backbone planarity in achieving high performance ambipolar field effect transistors

This year, as you may know, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C are celebrating their 10th anniversary! To join in the celebrations, we’ve asked authors to find creative ways to add a ’10’ to the cover artwork and are excited to show you the results in our monthly cover showcase.

To join in the celebration, you can view the #JMCs10Years hashtag on Twitter and follow the posts for the year so far.

Here are this month’s covers:

Redox-active polynaphthalimides as versatile electrode materials for high-voltage, high-rate and long-cycle-life organic Li-ion batteries	Recent advances in natural small molecules as drug delivery systems	Optimizing the doping efficiency and thermoelectric properties of isoindigo-based conjugated polymers using side chain engineering	Exploiting heterocycle aromaticity to fabricate new hot exciton materials
Enhancing chemisorption efficiency and thin-film characteristics via a discrete feeding method in high-k dielectric atomic layer deposition for preventing interfacial layer formation	Multifunctional theranostic carbazole-based cyanine for real-time imaging of amyloid-β and therapeutic treatment of multiple pathologies in Alzheimer’s disease	Enhancement of electrical stability of metal oxide thin-film transistors against various stresses	Centripetal triazine chromophores: towards efficient two-photon absorbers and highly emissive polyimide films

This year, as you may know, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C are celebrating their 10th anniversary! To join in the celebrations, we’ve asked authors to find creative ways to add a ’10’ to the cover artwork and are excited to show you the results in our monthly cover showcase.

To join in the celebration, you can view the #JMCs10Years hashtag on Twitter and follow the posts for the year so far.

Here are this month’s covers:

Synthesis of ABCBA-type miktoarm H-shaped copolymers with poly(3-hexylthiophene) segments and their application to intrinsically stretchable photonic transistor memory	A high-performance “fueled” photodetector based on few-layered 2D ternary chalcogenide NiGa2S4	High photoactive black phase stability of CsPbI3 nanocrystals under damp-heat conditions of 85 °C and 85% relative humidity	Unveiling the role of water in enhancing the performance of zinc-ion batteries using dimethyl sulfoxide electrolyte and the manganese dioxide cathode
Black phosphorus thermosensitive hydrogels loaded with bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes synergistically promote bone tissue defect repair	Low-voltage organic single-crystal field-effect transistors and inverters enabled by a solution processable high-k dielectric	Pressure-induced structural phase transition, irreversible amorphization and upconversion luminescence enhancement in Ln3+-codoped LiYF4 and LiLuF4	Magnetically driven hierarchically ordered carbonyl iron@SiO2/Ni@Ag/silicone rubber composite film for enhanced electromagnetic interference shielding with ultralow reflection

This year, as you may know, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C are celebrating their 10th anniversary! To join in the celebrations, we’ve asked authors to find creative ways to add a ’10’ to the cover artwork and are excited to show you the results in our monthly cover showcase.

To join in the celebration, you can view the #JMCs10Years hashtag on Twitter and follow the posts for the year so far.

Here are this month’s covers:

Integrated high-sulfur-loading polysulfide/carbon cathode in lean-electrolyte cell toward high-energy-density lithium–sulfur cells with stable cyclability	Boosting the photocatalytic CO2 conversion efficiency of MOFs using a solid electron conveyor	Fluoroalkyl phosphonic acid radical scavengers for proton exchange membrane fuel cells	Visible label-free detection of bacterial DNA using flocculation of sterically stabilised cationic latexes
Design of an ultra-broadband terahertz absorber based on a patterned graphene metasurface with machine learning	Periodic mesoporous organosilica based sensor for broad range mercury detection by simultaneous downshifting/upconversion luminescence	A binaphthalimide motif as a chiral scaffold for thermally activated delayed fluorescence with circularly polarized luminescence activity	Achieving ultralong directional liquid transportation spontaneously with a high velocity

This year, as you may know, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C are celebrating their 10th anniversary! To join in the celebrations, we’ve asked authors to find creative ways to add a ’10’ to the cover artwork and are excited to show you the results in our monthly cover showcase.

To join in the celebration, you can view the #JMCs10Years hashtag on Twitter and follow the posts for the year so far.

Here are this month’s covers:

Light-induced bi-directional switching of thermal conductivity in azobenzene-doped liquid crystal mesophases	Designed a hollow Ni2P/TiO2 S-scheme heterojunction for remarkably enhanced photoelectric effect for solar energy harvesting and conversion	Plasmonic random lasing and amplified spontaneous emission from donor–acceptor–donor dyes covered biocompatible silk fibroin film	MXene-decorated flexible Al2O3/TiO2 nanofibrous mats with self-adaptive stress dispersion towards multifunctional desalination
Membrane-disruptive homo-polymethacrylate with both hydrophobicity and pH-sensitive protonation for selective cancer therapy	Recent advances in catalyst design and activity enhancement induced by a magnetic field for electrocatalysis	Preparation of functionalized diene-elastomers upon top-down pyrolysis of their vulcanizates via dynamic covalent polymerization	A micro/nano-multiscale hierarchical structure strategy to fabricate highly conducting films for electromagnetic interference shielding and energy storage

This year, as you may know, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C are celebrating their 10th anniversary! To join in the celebrations, we’ve asked authors to find creative ways to add a ’10’ to the cover artwork and are excited to show you the results in our monthly cover showcase.

To join in the celebration, you can view the #JMCs10Years hashtag on Twitter and follow the posts for the year so far.

Here are this month’s covers:

Citrated cellulose nanocrystals from post-consumer cotton textiles	A highly permeable porous organic cage composite membrane for gas separation	High-throughput transient photoluminescence spectrometer for deep learning of thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials	Photo-response modulation of organic transistors for multi-level light sensing using active layer microstructure control
Recent advances in interfacial solar vapor generation: clean water production and beyond	Ultrathin electrochemical layer tailoring of lithiophilic materials with 3D hierarchical configuration for lithium metal batteries: Sn/Cu6Sn5@Cu2+1O nanowires on Cu foam	Improved alkaline water electrolysis system for green energy: sulfonamide antibiotic-assisted anodic oxidation integrated with hydrogen generation	Brain-like optoelectronic artificial synapses with ultralow energy consumption based on MXene floating-gates for emotion recognition

This year, as you may know, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C are celebrating their 10th anniversary! To join in the celebrations, we’ve asked authors to find creative ways to add a ’10’ to the cover artwork and are excited to show you the results in our monthly cover showcase.

To join in the celebration, you can view the #JMCs10Years hashtag on Twitter and follow the posts for the year so far.

Here are this month’s covers:

Ultrafine-fiber thermistors for microscale biomonitoring	A switchable system between magnetic and natural circularly polarised luminescence via J-aggregation using photosynthetic antenna model compounds	Post-imprinting modification: electrochemical and scanning electrochemical microscopy studies of a semi-covalently surface imprinted polymer	Lithium–sulfur cells with a sulfide solid electrolyte/polysulfide cathode interface
Chitosan based dielectrics for use in single walled carbon nanotube-based thin film transistors	A binder-driven cathode–electrolyte interphase via a displacement reaction for high voltage Na3V2(PO4)2F3 cathodes in sodium-ion batteries	Surface modified materials for active capture of enzymes	Orthogonal light-triggered multiple effects based on photochromic nanoparticles for DNA cleavage and beyond

This year, as you may know, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C are celebrating their 10th anniversary! To join in the celebrations, we’ve asked authors to find creative ways to add a ’10’ to the cover artwork and are excited to show you the results in our monthly cover showcase.

To join in the celebration, you can view the #JMCs10Years hashtag on Twitter and follow the posts for the year so far.

Here are this month’s covers:

Tuning CPL by helical pitch modulation in helically flexible small organic multichromophores	Facile dimerization strategy for producing narrowband green multi-resonance delayed fluorescence emitters	Enhancing energy storage performance in Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-based lead-free relaxor ferroelectric ceramics along a stepwise optimization route	A charge-free and membrane-free hybrid capacitive mixing system for salinity gradient energy harvesting
Improving the intrinsic conductivity of δ-MnO2 by indium doping for high-performance neutral aqueous sodium-ion supercapacitors with commercial-level mass-loading	Polymorph- and molecular alignment-dependent lasing behaviors of a cyano-substituted thiophene/phenylene co-oligomer	Solvent-free temperature gradient melt formation of efficient visible-to-UV photon upconversion organic films with subsolar threshold and over 100 h photostability in air	Thermally stable and strongly emitted CPL in Eu(d-facam)3 hybrid solids with an alkylammonium salt