Chemical ReviewsPub Date : 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00025
Zhuyuan Wang, Jindi Yang, Ming Yong, Xiangkang Zeng, Mike Tebyetekerwa, Kaige Sun, Chuanbiao Bie, Chao Xing, Huanting Wang, Daria V Andreeva, Kostya S Novoselov, Xiwang Zhang
{"title":"From Layered Crystals to Permselective Membranes: History, Fundamentals, and Opportunities.","authors":"Zhuyuan Wang, Jindi Yang, Ming Yong, Xiangkang Zeng, Mike Tebyetekerwa, Kaige Sun, Chuanbiao Bie, Chao Xing, Huanting Wang, Daria V Andreeva, Kostya S Novoselov, Xiwang Zhang","doi":"10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Membranes are crucial in permselective processes, such as water purification, gas sequestration, ion separation, membrane distillation and pervaporation, and energy conversion and storage. The two-decade development of two-dimensional (2D) membranes has shifted the membrane transport from solution-diffusion in the polymer matrix to size-dependent migration in Ångström-to-nanoscale slit-like channels, delivering distinctive fundamentals within nanoconfinements and potential implementations. In this review, we delve into the comprehensive information that facilitates the transformation of layered crystals into continuous thin-film architectures boasting well-defined nanopores. We trace the evolutionary history of these technologies, engage in debates on their underlying principles, and reveal obstacles that demand attention. Starting with the preparation of \"single-layer carbon,\" we explore an array of protocols designed for the sizable production of 2D nanosheets. Our focus then shifts toward unveiling the solutions available for membrane fabrication and control, specifically focusing on the chemical and structural properties of 2D membranes that dictate their mass transportation behaviors in various scenarios. This is followed by a brief comparative discussion on the development of atomically thin and 2D-based mixed matrix membranes. Finally, we conclude by outlining the challenges and limitations associated with streamlining the interlocked exfoliation-reconstruction-control processes to consolidate their practicalities for use in environment and energy-related applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":32,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Reviews","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144511275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical ReviewsPub Date : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00813
Max Buczek, Zoe Moos, Alexander Gutsche, Stephan Menzel, Regina Dittmann
{"title":"Pr<sub>1-<i>x</i></sub>Ca<sub><i>x</i></sub>MnO<sub>3</sub>-Based Memristive Heterostructures: Basic Mechanisms and Applications.","authors":"Max Buczek, Zoe Moos, Alexander Gutsche, Stephan Menzel, Regina Dittmann","doi":"10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00813","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memristive devices are highly promising candidates for overcoming the limits of conventional nonvolatile memory, such as flash memory, due to their high scalability, low power consumption, and simple structure. Moreover, memristive devices might be employed as hardware representations of synapses in neuromorphic circuits. Heterostructures of the perovskite Pr<sub>1-<i>x</i></sub>Ca<sub><i>x</i></sub>MnO<sub>3</sub> (PCMO) and a tunnel oxide are a well-studied system and a famous representative of area-dependent switching in the family of valence change memory. In contrast to filamentary switching, area-dependent switching can be tuned gradually, making it highly interesting for application in neuromorphic circuits. Further, PCMO-based devices are considered a persistent memory for DRAM replacement. This review discusses PCMO as a material and its properties, the types and aspects of memristive heterostructures based on PCMO, and different switching mechanisms. Finally, it provides an overview of the use of PCMO-based devices in neuromorphic applications and industrial activities on PCMO-based devices for memory.</p>","PeriodicalId":32,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Reviews","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144504050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical ReviewsPub Date : 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00696
Yusi Wang, Yiding Wang, Yanfei Zhao, Jiaju Fu, Zhimin Liu
{"title":"Ionic Liquids Promoted Transformation of Carbon Dioxide.","authors":"Yusi Wang, Yiding Wang, Yanfei Zhao, Jiaju Fu, Zhimin Liu","doi":"10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00696","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The unique physicochemical properties of ionic liquids (ILs) make them be widely applied in many areas. Especially, in chemical reaction processes ILs are capable of serving as solvents, catalysts, additives, electrolytes, and display high performances. In the past few decades, the carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emission issue has caused worldwide attention, and various strategies has been developed to solve the problems caused by CO<sub>2</sub> emission. As an accessible, renewable, and environmentally friendly C1 feedstock, CO<sub>2</sub> has been intensively investigated for synthesis of value-added chemicals, fuels, and materials via thermocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis. As a kind of efficient catalysts or promoters, various ILs have been employed in the chemical transformation of CO<sub>2</sub>. Especially, the CO<sub>2</sub>-reactive ILs can chemically capture and activate CO<sub>2</sub>, and further catalyze the CO<sub>2</sub> transformation under metal-free and mild conditions, which provide novel protocols to produce value-added chemicals. The catalytic systems comprising IL and metal catalysts combine the advantages of ILs and metal catalysts, and can achieve the reductive transformation of CO<sub>2</sub> coupled with hydrogenation, providing green routes to access fuel and chemicals. Besides, the IL-based electrolytes have been applied in electrocatalytic reduction of CO<sub>2</sub>, which cooperate with electrodes to achieve electrocatalytic transformation of CO<sub>2</sub> into different products. In this review article various CO<sub>2</sub>-reactive ILs are first introduced focusing on activation mechanism of CO<sub>2</sub>. Then, the IL-catalyzed CO<sub>2</sub> transformation under metal-free conditions, reductive transformation of CO<sub>2</sub> over IL-metal catalytic systems, and electrocatalytic transformation of CO<sub>2</sub> in IL-based electrolytes are summarized concentrating on the roles of ILs in chemical reactions. The final section extends the scope of this review to prospects and challenges in IL-catalyzed or promoted CO<sub>2</sub> transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":32,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Reviews","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144493151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vinay Tripathi, Daria Kowsari, Kumar Saurav, Haimeng Zhang, Eli M. Levenson-Falk* and Daniel A. Lidar*,
{"title":"","authors":"Vinay Tripathi, Daria Kowsari, Kumar Saurav, Haimeng Zhang, Eli M. Levenson-Falk* and Daniel A. Lidar*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Reviews","volume":"125 12","pages":"2305–2315 XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00870","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144429797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sourav Sekhar Bera, Greta Utecht-Jarzyńska, Shiyi Yang, Steven P. Nolan* and Michal Szostak*,
{"title":"","authors":"Sourav Sekhar Bera, Greta Utecht-Jarzyńska, Shiyi Yang, Steven P. Nolan* and Michal Szostak*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Reviews","volume":"125 12","pages":"2305–2315 XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":51.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144429801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical ReviewsPub Date : 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c01014
Micheline B Soley,Eric J Heller
{"title":"Ultracold Molecular Collisions: Quasiclassical, Semiclassical, and Classical Approaches in the Quantum Regime.","authors":"Micheline B Soley,Eric J Heller","doi":"10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c01014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c01014","url":null,"abstract":"Ultracold atoms and molecules provide an unprecedented view into the role of quantum effects in chemical reactions. However, these same quantum effects make ultracold chemical reactions notoriously difficult to simulate. Contrary to conventional wisdom that ultracold systems necessitate quantum approaches, with classical mechanics offering a rough approximation at best, the past three decades have seen an explosion in classical, quasiclassical, and semiclassical approaches that yield near-exact results for ultracold systems─including in cases where today's quantum methods would be computationally intractable. This review illustrates the power of these approaches with 30 years' worth of numerical and experimental evidence. The review provides a comprehensive account of the successes of universal classical post-threshold laws for low-energy atomic and molecular scattering systems, as well as the cutting edge in quasiclassical approaches that unravel the ongoing controversy surrounding long-lived collision complex lifetimes in ultracold collisions. Special attention is placed on atomic systems where classical scaling laws hold directly at zero Kelvin, which underline the predictive power classical methods can offer even in the most extreme quantum chemical environments. The review culminates with a discussion of broader implications for classically inspired approaches to prototypically quantum chemistry in the second quantum revolution.","PeriodicalId":32,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Reviews","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":62.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144478685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}