Nanosheet Growth at the Air-Water interface

by Charlie Smith | Sep 8, 2022 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS

Click to Enlarge Reprinted with permission from Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 7, 3040-3046 Copyright 2022 American Chemical Society. March 31, 2022  Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 7, 3040-3046   Two-dimensional nanomaterials play a key role in material innovation and property...

Molecular Synthesis Using Scaffold Hopping

by Charlie Smith | Jul 27, 2022 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS

Click to Enlarge Copyright © 2022, The American Association for the Advancement of Science Scaffold hopping by net photochemical carbon deletion of azaarenes Science (2022), 376, 6592, 527-532 DOI: 10.1126/science.abo4282 Modification of chemical compounds through...

Role of Zeolite Structural Properties toward Iodine Capture

by Charlie Smith | May 18, 2022 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS

Click to Enlarge Copyright © 2022 American Chemical Society Role of Zeolite Structural Properties toward Iodine Capture: A Head-to-head Evaluation of Framework Type and Chemical Composition ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2022), 14, 16, 18439–18452 DOI:...

Taming the Chlorine Radical: Enforcing Steric Control over Chlorine-Radical-Mediated C−H Activation

by Charlie Smith | Mar 29, 2022 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 1464−1472   Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Chicago stuied the C−H functionalization reactions. They used photocrystallography to confirm that this selectivity arises from the generation of Cl· within the steric...

Specific Ion Effects in Lanthanide-Amphiphile Complex

by Charlie Smith | Mar 28, 2022 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS

Click to Enlarge Reprinted with permission from Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14 7504-7512. Copyright 2022 American Chemical Society. January 31, 2022  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14 7504-7512   The lanthanide-surfactant interaction plays an essential role in...

Antagonistic Role of Aqueous Complexation in the Solvent Extraction

by Charlie Smith | Nov 29, 2021 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS

Click to Enlarge Reprinted with permission from ACS Cent. Sci. 2021, 7 1908-1918. Copyright 2021 American Chemical Society. October 25, 2021  ACS Cent. Sci. 2021, 7, 1908-1918   Solvent extraction is used widely for the separation and purification of strategic metal...