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Life science nanoarchitectonics at interfaces

Nanotechnology is an indispensable item in advanced bio-related and life sciences, but a novel concept is necessary to bridge gaps between nanotechnology and biology/materials chemistry. The most suitable concept for this task would be nanoarchitectonics. In this short review article, our recent accomplishments of nanoarchitectonics approaches on cell functions including gene delivery and controlled differentiation are summarized. Regulations of cell activities by nanoarchitected materials are carried out through their interfacial contacts. Our accomplishments are here described according to types of material structural motif, (i) nanotopography, (ii) self-assembled structures, and (iii) composite materials. Finally, several challenging approaches are introduced as frontiers of cell fate regulation at the interfacial media. Developments of artificial materials and systems to regulate bio-organizations including living cells will give intuitions and ideas even to the design of general functional systems. Interfacial nanoarchitectonics could be an important key concept for future advanced life technologies as well as currently required biomedical applications.

 

Figure 1. Outline of nanoarchitectonics and application to life science at interfaces.

 

Interfacial structures with various topological and mechanical features affect significantly cell behaviours including cell fates. At insides of living cells, sophisticated mechanisms are working upon relays of functional elements, and these mechanisms can be triggered by the input of external stimuli at the surfaces of cells. Control of surface contact can lead to the regulation of complicated cell functions. Interfacial nanoarchitectonics would be an important key concept for cell regulations for biomedical applications and life sciences.

 

Article Information

Life science nanoarchitectonics at interfaces
Katsuhiko Ariga, Kun-Che Tsai, Lok Kumar Shrestha and Shan-hui Hsu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0QM00615G

 

Authors Information

Katsuhiko Ariga

National Institute for Materials Science & University of Tokyo

Katsuhiko Ariga received his Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990. He is currently the Leader of the Supermolecules Group and Principal Investigator at the World Premier International Research Centre for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, NIMS. He has also been appointed as Professor at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of more than 700 articles indexed by SCI and cited more than 40000 times with an index H = 106 (Sept., 2020)

https://publons.com/researcher/2767466/katsuhiko-ariga/

 

Shan-hui Hsu

National Taiwan University

Shan-hui Hsu received her Ph.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University (USA) in 1992. She is now the Director for the Doctoral Program of Green Sustainable Materials and Precision Devices and Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University.

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Manganese as a Superior Dopant for Oxide Nanosheets in Water Oxidation

The efficiency of water splitting is severely limited by the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), due to sluggish kinetics and a substantial overpotential. To overcome this challenge, precious-metal based catalysts, such as IrO2 and RuO2, have been investigated and confirmed to exhibit good OER performance. However, the scarcity and high cost of these materials restrict their large-scale application.

 

Recently, the group of Derek Ho and collaborators of the City University of Hong Kong have demonstrated a one-step method for the synthesis of Mn doped ultrathin nickel-iron oxide (Mn-Ni-Fe-O) nanosheets, which simultaneously achieves an abundance of oxygen vacancies and high valance Ni3+ catalytic sites (Fig. 1). The Mn dopant exists in the form of mixed-valence Mn cations, which contributes to tailoring the electronic structure of the Ni and Fe sites, leading to outstanding OER catalytic performance.

Figure 1. Schematic of the preparation procedure of Mn-Ni-Fe-O nanosheets.

 

 

SEM and TEM images of the Mn-Ni-Fe-O hybrid shows 100 – 300 nm interconnected nanosheet structures, having an ultrathin and veil-like morphology (Fig. 2). AFM images show a nanosheet thickness of approximately 3.2 nm. EDX mapping presents that Ni, Fe, Mn, and O elements are uniformly dispersed throughout the nanosheets.

 

Figure 2. (a) SEM image, (b, c) TEM images and the inset in (c) is the corresponding SAED patterns, (d) HRTEM image, (e) AFM image and the corresponding thickness curve, (f) STEM image and the corresponding element mapping, and (g) EDX spectrum of the Mn-Ni-Fe-O nanosheets.

 

 

XRD, XPS, CV, and EPR are also performed (Fig. 3). From XPS, after Mn doping, the Fe 2p3/2 XPS peak of the Mn-Ni-Fe-O nanosheets shifts to a higher binding energy as compared to that of undoped Ni-Fe-O nanosheets, suggesting that Mn dopant can modulate the charge density of Fe atom sites. Compared to the Ni 2p XPS spectrum of pristine Ni-Fe-O, the Ni 2p XPS spectrum of Mn-Ni-Fe-O nanosheets exhibits an obvious positive shift of 0.3 eV in binding energy, which is attributed to Mn incorporation. From CV curves, the Ni2+ oxidation peaks appear at 1.40 and 1.36 V versus RHE for the undoped and doped samples, respectively, indicating the oxidation of Ni species is enhanced upon Mn doping. Also, the O2 ratio (51.0 %) for the Mn-Ni-Fe-O nanosheets is higher than that of the Ni-Fe-O nanosheets (41.9 %), which indicates that Mn dopants can create an enhanced oxygen vacancies concentration.

Figure 3. Characterization data of the Mn-Ni-Fe-O and Ni-Fe-O: (a) XRD patterns, (b) XPS survey spectra, (c) high-resolution XPS spectra for Mn 2p region for Mn-Ni-Fe-O, (d) XPS for the Fe 2p region, (e) XPS for the Ni 2p region, CV curves (scan rate of 50 mV s-1) of (f) Ni-Fe-O  and (g) Mn-Ni-Fe-O, (h) XPS for the O 1s region, and (i) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra of Mn-Ni-Fe-O (2 wt%).

 

 

OER electrochemical performance has been investigated in an O2-saturated KOH (1 M) solution. Upon doping of Mn, polarization curves show an OER overpotential of only 225 mV (vs. undoped at 250 mV) (Fig. 4). Remarkably, these two as-prepared ultrathin nanosheets, with or without Mn doping, exhibit faster OER than the commercial RuO2. The Mn doped nanosheets exhibit a turnover frequency (TOF) of 0.063 s−1 at the overpotential of 300 mV, which is 3.5 and 12 times higher than that of the undoped sample and commercial RuO2, respectively. The Tafel slope is 38.2 mV dec-1 (vs. 65.8 mV dec-1 undoped and 72.0 mV dec-1 from RuO2). Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) reveals that the Mn dopants can effectively improve the electrical conductivity.

Figure 4. (a) Polarization curves, (b) TOF, and (c) Tafel slope of Mn-Ni-Fe-O, Ni-Fe-O, and RuO2. (d) Nyquist slopes of Ni-Fe-O and Mn-Ni-Fe-O, (e) overpotential at 10 mA cm-2 and Tafel slope of Ni-Fe-O nanosheets with different Mn doping levels, and (f) chronopotentiometry curves of Mn-Ni-Fe-O nanosheets at 30 mA cm-2.

 

 

This work demonstrated a facile method in synthesizing ultrathin Mn-Ni-Fe-O nanosheets that achieve highly efficient OER catalytic performance, providing a sound strategy for the design and synthesis of multi-metallic, atomically-thin oxides nanosheets to mitigate the catalytic limitation of OER, thereby rendering the electrolysis of water a practical form of alternative fuel production.

 

Information on Corresponding Author

 

Derek Ho

City University of Hong Kong

Derek Ho is currently an associate professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He directs the Atoms to Systems Laboratory. He received his B.A.Sc. (first class) and M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, in 2005 and 2007 respectively. At UBC, he focused his study on microelectronics. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada in 2013, where he worked on sensors incorporating nanomaterials and CMOS electronics for chemical detection and DNA biosensing applications. Professor Ho’s research interest is in the synthesis of electronic nanomaterials and fabrication of advanced devices. His current research focuses on sensing and energy applications, mainly in the form of stretchable and healable electronics. www.atomstosystems.com

 

Article information:

Mn dopant induced high-valence Ni3+ sites and oxygen vacancies for enhanced water oxidation

Yu Zhang, Zhiyuan Zeng and Derek Ho

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article

https://doi.org/10.1039/D0QM00300J

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Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Chemistry Frontiers in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

 

Dr Laure Biniek, Institut Charles Sadron, ORCID: 0000-0002-7643-3713

Dr Zhen Li, Hubei University, ORCID: 0000-0002-7427-6777

Dr Gregory Pieters, CEA Saclay, ORCID: 0000-0002-3924-8287

Professor Andrea Pucci, University of Pisa, ORCID: 0000-0003-1278-5004

Professor Anjun Qin, South China University of Technology, ORCID: 0000-0001-7158-1808

Professor Kazuo Tanaka, Kyoto University, ORCID: 0000-0001-6571-7086

Dr Jiangyan Wang, Stanford University, ORCID: 0000-0001-6951-1296

Professor Shuangyin Wang, Hunan University, ORCID: 0000-0001-7185-9857

Professor Nailiang Yang, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0002-5708-8379

Dr Ying-Wei Yang, Jilin University, ORCID: 0000-0001-8839-8161

 

We would also like to thank the Materials Chemistry Frontiers board and the materials chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

 

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

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Materials Chemistry Frontiers board members participated in a panel discussion at the Northwestern University

On 6th Dec 2019, six Materials Chemistry Frontiers board members participated in a panel discussion of “Being Bold in STEM” at the Northwestern University. The panel was organized and moderated by Northwestern students. Three female scientists were featured and the other male scientists actively participated.

Panelist   Participants
Yu Huang

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Jiaxing Huang

Northwestern University, USA­

Emilie Ringe

University of Cambridge, UK

Kazuo Tanaka

Kyoto University, Japan

Marina A. Petrukhina

University at Albany, New York, USA

Guillaume Wantz

University of Bordeaux, France


Topics and Questions:

  • We often receive the message that it’s in our career interests to not “rock the boat” and speak out against the norms or status quo of our community. Do you agree with this, and to what extent?
  • Please share some examples in which you have used your voice to speak out against something that you disagreed with. Could be challenging a scientific concept or shutting down discrimination, etc.
  • Was there ever a time when “being bold” backfired for you? What did you learn from the situation?
  • How have you navigated pivots or new directions in your career?
  • How have you remained bold in the face of rejection?

Attendees:

Students and postdocs of Northwestern University

In the panel, the scientists addressed questions and shared how they had learned to be bold scientists, educators, and working professionals. Some suggested for students were, finding out what they were good at and building on that, being bold to talk to their professors, talking to the top players in the field when there was a chance and reaching out to more people. They also shared their own stories about being bold and confident. This Panel offered a great opportunity for students to interact with scientists and seek for advice on future development.

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Congratulations to our highly cited board members!

We are proud to announce that 15 of Materials Chemistry Frontiers Board members are recognized in Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2019, ranking them among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and publication year.

The board members are:

Editorial Board

Ben Zhong Tang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University, China
Yu Huang, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Dan Wang, Institute of Process Engineering, CAS, China

Advisory Board

Guillermo C Bazan, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Xinliang Feng, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Jiaxing Huang, Northwestern University
Bin Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Thuc Quyen Nguyen, University of California,Santa Barbara, USA
Juyoung Yoon, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Hua Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Qichun Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tierui Zhang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, China
Yuliang Zhao, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China

Below are a few of our picks from their publications in Materials Chemistry Frontiers journals. Access is free to these highlighted papers!

Tunable circularly polarized luminescence from molecular assemblies of chiral AIEgens
Fengyan Song, Yanhua Cheng*, Qiuming Liu, Zijie Qiu, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Liangbin Lin, Fafu Yang* and Ben Zhong Tang*
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1768-1778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00332K

Sparks fly when AIE meets with polymers
Yuanyuan Li, Shunjie Liu, Ting Han, Haoke Zhang, Clarence Chuah, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam* and Ben Zhong Tang*
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 2207-2220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00404A

Hollow multi-shell structured SnO2 with enhanced performance for ultraviolet photodetectors
Meng Li, Dan Mao, Jiawei Wan, Fakun Wang, Tianyou Zhai and Dan Wang*
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1968-1972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00490D

Formation of multi-shelled nickel-based sulfide hollow spheres for rechargeable alkaline batteries
Dongwei Li, Xiaoxian Zhao, Ranbo Yu*, Bao Wang*, Hao Wangc and Dan Wang*
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 535-540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QI00760D

Recent progress in macrocyclic amphiphiles and macrocyclic host-based supra-amphiphiles
Huangtianzhi Zhu, Liqing Shangguan, Bingbing Shi, Guocan Yu* and Feihe Huang*
Mater. Chem. Front., 2018,2, 2152-2174
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QM00314A

Pillararene-based host–guest recognition facilitated magnetic separation and enrichment of cell membrane proteins
Huangtianzhi Zhu, Jiaqi Liu, Bingbing Shi, Huanhuan Wang, Zhengwei Mao*, Tizhong Shan* and Feihe Huang*
Mater. Chem. Front., 2018,2, 1475-1480
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QM00141C

Direct visualization of the ouzo zone through aggregation-induced dye emission for the synthesis of highly monodispersed polymeric nanoparticles
Eshu Middha, Purnima Naresh Manghnani, Denise Zi Ling Ng, Huan Chen, Saif A. Khan and Bin Liu*
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1375-1384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00020H

Near-infrared light-induced shape memory, self-healable and anti-bacterial elastomers prepared by incorporation of a diketopyrrolopyrrole-based conjugated polymer
Yaling Zhang, Shiwei Zhou, Kok Chan Chong, Shaowei Wang and Bin Liu*
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 836-841
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00104B

Recent progress in ligand-centered homogeneous electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction
Geng-Geng Luo*, Hai-Lin Zhang, Yun-Wen Tao, Qiao-Yu Wu, Dan Tian and Qichun Zhang*
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 343-354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QI01220B

New synthetic strategies to prepare metal–organic frameworks
Peng Li, Fang-Fang Cheng, Wei-Wei Xiong* and Qichun Zhang*
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 2693-2708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QI00543E

Polycyclic heteroaromatic hydrocarbons containing a benzoisoindole core
Marcus Richter, Karl Sebastian Schellhammer, Peter Machata, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Alexey Popov, Frank Ortmann, Reinhard Berger*, Klaus Müllend and Xinliang Feng*
Org. Chem. Front., 2017,4, 847-852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00180K

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HOT articles in October 2019

Materials Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of October 2019!

You can access these publications for free till 31st December 2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

 

Copper surface doping to improve the structure and surface properties of manganese-rich cathode materials for sodium ion batteries
Tao Chen, Weifang Liu, Yi Zhuo, Hang Hu, Jing Guo, Yaochi Liu, Jun Yan and Kaiyu Liu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, 3, 2374-2379
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00522F

Zeolite-confined carbon dots: tuning thermally activated delayed fluorescence emission via energy transfer
Hongyue Zhang, Jiancong Liu, Bolun Wang, Kaikai Liu, Guangrui Chen, Xiaowei Yu, Jiyang Li and Jihong Yu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00549H

Design and performance study of high efficiency/low efficiency roll-off/high CRI hybrid WOLEDs based on aggregation-induced emission materials as fluorescent emitters
Zeng Xu, Jiabao Gu, Jian Huang, Chengwei Lin, Yuanzhao Li, Dezhi Yang, Xianfeng Qiao, Anjun Qin, Zujin Zhao, Ben Zhong Tang and Dongge Ma
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00539K

A polymorphic fluorescent material with strong solid state emission and multi-stimuli-responsive properties
Ji-Yu Zhu, Chun-Xiang Li, Peng-Zhong Chen, Zhiwei Ma, Bo Zou, Li-Ya Niu, Ganglong Cui and Qing-Zheng Yang
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00518H

Carbonized polymer dots/TiO2 photonic crystal heterostructures with enhanced light harvesting and charge separation for efficient and stable photocatalysis
Yue Zhao, Qingsen Zeng, Tanglue Feng, Chunlei Xia, Chongming Liu, Fan Yang, Kai Zhang and Bai Yang
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00556K

Anion replacement in silver chlorobromide nanocubes: two distinct hollowing mechanisms
Sasitha C. Abeyweera, Shea Stewart and Yugang Sun
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00544G

Tuning aggregation-induced emission nanoparticle properties under thin film formation
Javad Tavakoli, Scott Pye, A. H. M. Mosinul Reza, Ni Xie, Jian Qin, Colin L. Raston, Ben Zhong Tang and Youhong Tang
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00585D

Push–pull type quinoidal perylene showing solvent polarity dependent diradical character and negative solvatochromism
Wangdong Zeng and Jishan Wu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00566H

 

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Themed collection: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Nankai University

We are delighted to introduce you the following themed collection lately published from Materials Chemistry Frontiers Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Nankai University.

Nankai University is a multidisciplinary and research-oriented university and its materials chemistry research is among the best in China. This collection, guest edited by Xian-He Bu and Jialiang Xu (Nankai University), features the outstanding materials chemistry research from Nankai University.

Below is a selection of articles featured in the collection. Access the full collection for free by end of 2019 at https://rsc.li/2pbpu3z.

Editorial

Materials chemistry research at Nankai University – a themed collection dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Nankai University
Jialiang Xu and Xian-He Bu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1265-1279
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM90043H

Reviews

Carbon-based materials for lithium-ion capacitors
Xiaojun Wang, Lili Liu and Zhiqiang Niu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1265-1279
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00062C

Intrinsically stretchable conductors and interconnects for electronic applications
Quan Zhang, Jiajie Liang, Yi Huang, Huiyu Chen and Rujun Ma
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1032-1051
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00055K

Structural colors in metasurfaces: principle, design and applications
Bo Yang, Hua Cheng, Shuqi Chen and Jianguo Tian
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 750-761
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00043G

Research Articles

Ultra-narrow bandgap non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells with low energy loss
Dongxue Liu, Ting Wang, Xin Ke, Nan Zheng, Zhitao Chang, Zengqi Xie and Yongsheng Liu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 2157-2163
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00505F

A novel Cu-nanowire@Quasi-MOF via mild pyrolysis of a bimetal-MOF for the selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol in air
Yan Shen, Li-Wei Bao, Fang-Zhou Sun and Tong-Liang Hu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00277D

Electronic structures and elastic properties of a family of metal-free perovskites
Kai Li, Li-Yuan Dong, Hao-Xiang Xu, Yan Qin, Zhi-Gang Li, Muhammad Azeem, Wei Li and Xian-He Bu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1678-1685
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00133F

A sandwich-type sulfur cathode based on multifunctional ceria hollow spheres for high-performance lithium–sulfur batteries
Jianwei Wang, Bo Zhou, Hongyang Zhao, Miaomiao Wu, Yaodong Yang, Xiaolei Sun, Donghai Wang and Yaping Du
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1317-1322
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00024K

Divergent synthesis of 3-substituted thieno[3,4-b]thiophene derivatives via hydroxy-based transformations
Yue Zhou, Jie Hao and Dongbing Zhao
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1422-1426
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00128J

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HOT articles in September 2019

Materials Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of September 2019!

You can access these publications for free till 30th November 2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

 

Self-assembled binary multichromophore dendrimers with enhanced electro-optic coefficients and alignment stability
Huajun Xu, Jianpeng Liu, Jun Liu, Canwen Yu, Zhaofen Zhai, Gangzhi Qin and Fenggang Liu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00508K

 

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Welcome to Issue 10 of Materials Chemistry Frontiers in 2019!

The latest MaterChemFront issue 10 is published online.

 

Graphical abstract: Front coverThe front cover story, One-step preparation of multifunctional alginate microspheres loaded with in situ-formed gold nanostars as a photothermal agent is contributed by Fangli Hou, Yanhong Zhu, Qian Zou, Chun Zhang, Hong Wang, Yonggui Liao, Qin Wang, Xiangliang Yang and Yajiang Yang. The inside cover features a story on New-fangled sources of cellulose extraction: comparative study of the effectiveness of Cissus latifolia and Ficus benghalensis cellulose as a filler by Arunima Reghunadhan, Nayana G. Sivan, Shibina S. K., Siji K. Mary, Rekha Rose Koshy, Janusz Datta and Sabu Thomas.

 

Following review type articles are included in current issue:

 

Design strategies of n-type conjugated polymers for organic thin-film transistors
Ying Sui, Yunfeng Deng, Tian Du, Yibo Shi and Yanhou Geng
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1932-1951
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00382G

The synthesis of composite powder precursors via chemical processes for the sintering of oxide dispersion-strengthened alloys
Zhi Dong, Weiqiang Hu, Zongqing Ma, Chong Li and Yongchang Liu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1952-1972
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00422J

Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers constructed from pillar[n]arene-based supra-amphiphiles
Tangxin Xiao, Lijie Qi, Weiwei Zhong, Chen Lin, Ruibing Wang and Leyong Wang
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1973-1993
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00428A

Graphical abstract: Inside front cover

Multimicelle aggregate mechanism for spherical multimolecular micelles: from theories, characteristics and properties to applications
Meiwei Qi and Yongfeng Zhou
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1994-2009
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00442D

Selenium-containing supra-amphiphiles
Wei Cao and Huaping Xu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 2010-2017
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00419J

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HOT articles in August 2019

Materials Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of August 2019!

You can access these publications for free till 31st October 2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

 

On-site visual discrimination of transgenic food by water-soluble DNA-binding AIEgens
Zhe Jiao, Zongning Guo, Xuelin Huang, Hongbo Fan, Miao Zhao, Dianming Zhou, Xiaolei Ruan, Pengfei Zhang, Sixing Zhou and Ben Zhong Tang
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00279K

 

Design of a novel scandium silicate based blue-emitting phosphor with high efficiency and robust thermal stability for warm WLEDs and field emission displays
Qiang Zhang, Xicheng Wang, Zuobin Tang and Yuhua Wang
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00370C

 

Flexible control of excited state transition under pressure/temperature: distinct stimuli-responsive behaviours of two ESIPT polymorphs
Aisen Li, Hao Liu, Chongping Song, Yijia Geng, Shuping Xu, Hongyu Zhang, Houyu Zhang, Haining Cui and Weiqing Xu
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00395A

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