Jana Schaubeder,Chao Zhong,Caterina Czibula,Cécile Chazot,Bernd Nidetzky
{"title":"Bottom-up enzymatic synthesis of robust sub-10 micrometer cellulose beads","authors":"Jana Schaubeder,Chao Zhong,Caterina Czibula,Cécile Chazot,Bernd Nidetzky","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05538a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05538a","url":null,"abstract":"Controlled phosphorylase-catalyzed β-1,4-glucose polymerization in water yields sub-10 micrometer cellulose beads of narrow size distribution, reflected by mean coefficients of variation of 19 – 26%. The beads retain their morphology after one drying and rehydration cycle, offering a mild aqueous route to morphologically robust cellulose microparticles with potential for simple surface functionalization.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jian-De Dong,Jiao Wu,Siyu Ji,Tian-Xiong Wang,Shuyao Tian,Xu-Hui Jin
{"title":"Solution-Phase Formation of Proquinoidal Conjugated Polymer Nanowires with Rapid Photothermal Response","authors":"Jian-De Dong,Jiao Wu,Siyu Ji,Tian-Xiong Wang,Shuyao Tian,Xu-Hui Jin","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05979a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05979a","url":null,"abstract":"Well-defined solution-phase nanowires from deep-NIR-absorbing proquinoidal polymers remain rare owing to their strongly associating π-backbones. Here, a simple heating-cooling treatment produces such nanowires directly in solution from a non-block BBT-bifuran polymer. The nanowires exhibit absorption extending to ca. 1600 nm and rapid photothermal heating, with their surface temperature rising from 20.6 to 186.4 °C within 0.5 s under 808 nm irradiation. A hydroxyl-functionalized analogue can be incorporated into PVA/SA hydrogels, where a nominal feed loading of only 0.13 wt% increases the 1 sun evaporation rate 3.2-fold.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interfacial Molecular Engineering of Free-Standing Polyaniline-PVDF Hybrid Electrodes Enables High-Performance Flexible Solid-State Supercapacitors","authors":"Rakesh Nanna,Jitesh Pani,Hitesh Borkar","doi":"10.1039/d6cc04452b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc04452b","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we report a simple and scalable vacuum filtration-assisted strategy for the fabrication of Polyaniline (PANI)– poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) composite films with tunable compositions (80:20, 70:30, and 60:40) wt%. Interfacial molecular engineering and compositional optimization enables a balance between electrochemical performance and mechanical flexibility, with the 82Pp-based device delivers a high areal capacitance of 310.90 mF/cm² at 1 mA/cm² current density.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Screening-guided identification of a near-infrared fluorogenic reporter for portable chloramphenicol aptasensing","authors":"Xinyue Cao,Guangyu Zhang,Zhongyang Huang,Fangcheng Su,Jiaheng Zhang","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05686e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05686e","url":null,"abstract":"Screening 27 commercially available fluorescent dyes against the native chloramphenicol (CAP) aptamer identified ethyl violet (EV) as a near-infrared fluorogenic reporter for the label-free NiRApt–CAP aptasensor. NiRApt–CAP was evaluated in spiked aqueous samples and transferred to a compact fluorometer, providing a label-free route to portable CAP sensing without aptamer modification.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuting Meng,Hang Jiang,Wenxin Lei,Haisheng Ma,Zhongwei Ge,Bing Xu,Yasser M. A. Mohamed,Shouchun Yin,Yun Li,Yunhao Cai
{"title":"Boosting organic solar cells bridge functionalization of dimer acceptors with enhanced non-halogen solvent processability","authors":"Shuting Meng,Hang Jiang,Wenxin Lei,Haisheng Ma,Zhongwei Ge,Bing Xu,Yasser M. A. Mohamed,Shouchun Yin,Yun Li,Yunhao Cai","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05521d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05521d","url":null,"abstract":"Ternary organic solar cells incorporating a dimer acceptor with oligo(ethylene glycol) side chains achieve 20.34% efficiency and enhanced thermal stability (T80 = 180 h at 80 °C), while also enabling non-halogenated solvent processing (19.68% PCE). This work highlights dimer acceptor side-chain engineering as a promising strategy for achieving high-performance and sustainable OSCs.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photochemical dearomatization of indoles via their excited states","authors":"Wen-Jie Shen,Yuan-Zheng Cheng,Shu-Li You","doi":"10.1039/d6cc06193a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc06193a","url":null,"abstract":"Indoline frameworks are widely encountered in bioactive natural products and pharmaceuticals, making their efficient construction an enduring objective in synthetic chemistry. Dearomatization of indoles has emerged as a particularly powerful strategy for accessing these three-dimensional, highly functionalized scaffolds from readily available aromatic precursors. In this context, photochemical activation has opened new avenues for indole dearomatization by harnessing the distinctive reactivity of electronically excited states and enabling bond-forming processes that are often difficult to achieve under conventional thermal conditions. This review highlights recent advances in excited-state dearomatization of indole, with the discussion organized into intramolecular and intermolecular transformations.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thiago Altair,Emma Lindenfelser,Douglas Galante,Hamilton Varela,Yannick De Decker,Reuben H Hudson
{"title":"Transport Dynamics Across Prebiotic Hydrothermal Mineral Barriers: Comparison with Contemporary Proton Motive Pathways","authors":"Thiago Altair,Emma Lindenfelser,Douglas Galante,Hamilton Varela,Yannick De Decker,Reuben H Hudson","doi":"10.1039/d6cc04072a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc04072a","url":null,"abstract":"Redox gradients across vent minerals driving electron flow have long been proposed as a prebiotic means for chemical reductions.We characterized relevant vent minerals, revealing substantial electronic conductivity and low ionic conductivity-opposite from biology. We thus introduce ion conductivity as a possible limiting factor for the reduction of organics across minerals.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cecília A. Silveira,Euler E. L. Moura,Michael C. Rosa,Robson S. Oliboni,Jackson D. Scholten
{"title":"A sustainable path to cyclic carbonates: protic nitro-imidazolium salts as acid catalysts for CO cycloaddition","authors":"Cecília A. Silveira,Euler E. L. Moura,Michael C. Rosa,Robson S. Oliboni,Jackson D. Scholten","doi":"10.1039/d6cc03701a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc03701a","url":null,"abstract":"Protic nitro-imidazolium salts are efficient and tunable Brønsted acid catalysts for CO2 cycloaddition to epoxides, affording cyclic carbonates with high conversion and selectivity. Kinetic and DFT studies reveal a pseudo-first-order mechanism with epoxide ring opening as the rate-determining step, driven by cooperative hydrogen bonding and ion-pair interactions.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"δ-MnO cathodes for aqueous zinc-ion batteries: mechanisms, degradation processes, and strategies toward practical applications","authors":"Angela Peraki,Alexandros Angeloudis,Nikos Kavousanos,Dimitra Vernardou","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05317c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05317c","url":null,"abstract":"Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have emerged as promising next-generation energy storage systems owing to the abundance, low cost, intrinsic safety, and environmental benignity of metallic zinc. Among various cathodes, layered δ-MnO2 is particularly attractive because of its open framework, favorable Zn2+/H+ storage kinetics, and high charge-storage capability. However, practical implementation is hindered by Mn dissolution, hydrogen evolution, surface by-product formation, structural degradation, and irreversible phase transformations associated with complex Zn2+/H+ storage and interfacial reactions. Unlike previous reviews of MnO2-based AZIBs, this review establishes a δ-MnO2-specific structure–mechanism–stability framework, linking its layered structure and interlayer chemistry with ion storage, structural evolution, and degradation. This work also considers mechanistic insights from DFT calculations and advanced characterization techniques, which help elucidate ion-storage pathways, interfacial reactions, phase transformations, and structural degradation. Recent strategies including nanostructuring, defect engineering, doping, interlayer and interface modification, and composite design are critically evaluated from a structure–property–performance perspective. Beyond materials optimization, a materials-to-device perspective is established by addressing high-mass-loading electrodes, areal capacity, cell-level energy density, pouch-cell configurations, scalability, sustainability, and commercialization. Finally, key design principles and emerging research directions are proposed to guide the development of durable, scalable, and commercially relevant δ-MnO2-based AZIBs toward 2030.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terminal 4-Cyanophenyl Functionalization of Helical Nanographenes: Mechanistic Insights into Columnar Assembly and Near-Infrared Chiroptical Modulation","authors":"ZHIBO LIU,Takashi Hirose","doi":"10.1039/d6cc06209a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc06209a","url":null,"abstract":"We report a primary helical nanographene terminally functionalized with 4-cyanophenyl groups. This terminal substitution dictates columnar solid-state assembly and selectively stabilizes frontier orbitals deriving narrow HOMO-LUMO gap. It also induces red-shifted absorption and amplifies circular dichroism via transition moment density redistribution, providing rational design principles for helical π-systems.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149374956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}