Beatriz Torres Calvo,Marina González-Sánchez,A. Priscila Gia,Nicoló Tonelli,Mariam Barawi,Víctor Antonio de la Peña O'Shea,Marta Liras,Miguel Garcia-Iglesias,David Gonzalez Rodriguez,Alberto de Juan
{"title":"One-Dimensional Multicavity Cofacial Porphyrin Architectures as Photoactive Materials","authors":"Beatriz Torres Calvo,Marina González-Sánchez,A. Priscila Gia,Nicoló Tonelli,Mariam Barawi,Víctor Antonio de la Peña O'Shea,Marta Liras,Miguel Garcia-Iglesias,David Gonzalez Rodriguez,Alberto de Juan","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05897c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05897c","url":null,"abstract":"We show here that dynamic covalent imine chemistry enables the formation of 1D multicavity cofacial porphyrin architectures, Poly-2H and Oli-2H. Despite its closely related electronic properties to the discrete Cage-2H, Oli-2H exhibits enhanced photoelectrochemical activity, which is retained in aqueous media. This strategy provides a versatile platform for extending cofacial porphyrins towards functional molecular materials.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218242","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":"Toxic oxo-anion capture by metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): insights <i>via</i> single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformations.","authors":"Rupam Sahoo, Santanu Chand","doi":"10.1039/d6cc06095a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc06095a","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The contamination of water bodies and soil with toxic oxo-anions poses significant environmental and health risks. Conventional water treatment technologies often fall short in addressing the selective and efficient removal of these contaminants due to challenges related to their solubility, mobility, and persistence in natural systems. In this regard, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as one of the most promising classes of materials for oxo-anion removal. Despite numerous advances in the sensing capabilities of MOFs, the identification of intermediate steps, as well as the precise location and exact binding interactions of the entrapped oxo-anions, is still in its infancy and requires in-depth structural analysis of SC-SC transformations during the ion-exchange processes. In this review, we aim to summarize recent progress in MOF sensors for which SC-XRD structural insights into the entrapped oxo-anions are available and discuss these findings in detail to enhance molecular-level understanding of the ion-exchange process in MOF chemistry. Most importantly, we present a 'critical analysis' section considering several critical aspects that are often overlooked during development and made future recommendations in the 'future prospects' section.</p>","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219688","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":"Metal-organic frameworks for photocatalytic CO<sub>2</sub> reduction: recent advances, design principles, and mechanistic insights.","authors":"Hai-Xiong Liu, Ying-Xuan He, Zhen-Zeng Wu, Zheng-Han Cai, Rui-Xu Cai, Jun Zhang, Xiao-Ya Wang, Chen-Yang Yao, Sheng-Yun Zhao, Liang-Liang Zhang","doi":"10.1039/d6cc03786k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc03786k","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rising atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> levels demand sustainable technologies for converting CO<sub>2</sub> into fuels and chemicals. Photocatalytic CO<sub>2</sub> reduction mimics natural photosynthesis but faces great challenges from the inertness of CO<sub>2</sub>, high CO bond energy, slow kinetics, and competing hydrogen evolution. With ultrahigh surface areas, tunable porosity, and modular architectures, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) serve as a versatile platform, enabling molecular-level integration of light harvesting and catalysis to overcome these limitations. Rational optimization <i>via</i> linker functionalization, heterometal doping, defect engineering, heterojunctions, and morphology control has improved the efficiency and selectivity in CO<sub>2</sub> photoreduction. This review summarizes recent advances in framework engineering and their photophysical mechanisms. Despite progress, there still remain great challenges, such as limited visible-light absorption, low charge mobility, rapid recombination, poor stability, difficulty achieving C<sub>2+</sub> products, and insufficient <i>operando</i> understanding. Future efforts should focus on π-conjugated frameworks, conductive linkers, single-atom/dual-site centers to enable C-C coupling, and <i>in situ</i>/<i>operando</i> spectroscopies combined with theoretical analysis. Moreover, developing sacrificial-agent-free systems using water as an electron donor shows great promise for practical solar-fuel production.</p>","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219702","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}
Fanming Zeng, Zhirong Zheng, Yagong Wang, Ivan Hu, Xue Zhao, Feng Fan, Lijun Xue, Kexin Yang, Yun Jin Hu
{"title":"Metal-free, photochemical on-DNA thiol-yne reaction for the stereoselective synthesis of <i>Z</i>-alkenyl sulfides and vinyl sulfoximines.","authors":"Fanming Zeng, Zhirong Zheng, Yagong Wang, Ivan Hu, Xue Zhao, Feng Fan, Lijun Xue, Kexin Yang, Yun Jin Hu","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05768c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05768c","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present visible-light-driven, metal-free on-DNA thiol-yne reaction using benzil under 365 nm light to synthesize alkenyl sulfides. This mild, aqueous method preserves DNA integrity and enables direct conversion to alkenyl sulfoximines, expanding the chemical space for DNA-encoded library screening.</p>","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219620","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":"Structured Light Induced Colloidal Lithography Via Photosensitive Surfactants","authors":"Isabel Meier,Anjali Sharma,Maren Umlandt,Fabian Rohne,Nino Lomadze,Svetlana Santer,Marek Bekir","doi":"10.1039/d6cc03660k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc03660k","url":null,"abstract":"Structured colloidal lithography's susceptibility to drying effects hinders the development of large, patternd functional macrostructures outside an aqueous environment. We herein report on the optimal parameters to securely adhere selfassembled, previously mobile porous SiO2 microparticles to a glass surface using a photoswitchable azobenzene-containing surfactant in combination with UV light.Many soft and biological systems adapt their structure and properties in response to external stimuli by reorganizing at molecular and mesoscopic scales. This principle has motivated the development of synthetic smart materials that can reversibly switch specific properties \"on\" and \"off\" under controlled conditions. Thereof, the development of Smart Surfaces requires functional 2D macrostructures -large areas of spatially and temporally precisely positioned functionalized microparticles outside an aqueous environment. In this regard, Colloidal Lithography (CL) has been proven to be especially viable. It is used intensively in fields such as solar and thermophotovoltaic, [1] biosensors, [2] plasmonics, [3] photonics, [4] plasmonic, [5] biology, [6] various sensors, [7] renewable energy, [8] with specific optical, magnetic, electrochemical and catalytic properties. [9] In this, the aspect of self-assembly has become vital in building custom microstructures on a planar substrate. [10,11] We present a cutting-edge adhesion technique: Contrary to costly and time-intense current lithography methods, Material Lithography and various forms of CL (namely Oblique Angle Deposition, [12] Nanosphere Lithography, [13] Langmuir-Blodgett CL, [14] Binary CL, [15] Convective Self-Assembly, [16] Colloidal Templating [17] ), ours succeeds without the application of physical or chemical masks or templating procedures and is dynamic-based. Our technique uses the spatialtemporal manipulation of mobile microparticles (MP) that","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218236","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":"Type-I Bi2S3/S-In(OH)3 Heterostructures for Promoting C-C Coupling in Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to C2H4","authors":"Wenhui Lin,Xingwang Yan,Jiajia Liu,Ying Hu,Chenyang Leng,Bin Wang,Jintao Dong,Huaming Li,Yuanbin She,Paul K. Chu,Jiexiang Xia","doi":"10.1039/d6cc06425f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc06425f","url":null,"abstract":"Herein, a Bi2S3/S-In(OH)3 heterostructure is prepared by an oil-bath treatment and hydrothermal vulcanization. In this heterostructure, hydroxyl-rich S-In(OH)3 promotes CO2 adsorption and interfacial charge regulation, whereas narrow-bandgap Bi2S3 serves as the main reduction-active component. The results provide a feasible strategy for designing indium-based heterostructured photocatalysts for CO2-to-C2H4 conversion.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218235","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":"Solution and Solid Dual-State Amplified Spontaneous Emission with Excitation-Wavelength-Dependent Efficiencies in Fluorene-Benzobistriazole Symmetric Chromophores","authors":"Tzu-Chau Lin,Hung-Jen Chen,Tse-Wei Chen,Sheng-Ping Lin,Jui-Fen Chang,I-Chen Lu,Wei-Tao Peng","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05023a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05023a","url":null,"abstract":"A pair of fluorene-benzobistriazole chromophores exhibit efficient solution- and solid-state amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), while their ASE efficiency and threshold are found to be strongly dependent on the excitation wavelength.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218239","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}
Xi Li,Qiuqi Sun,Zhenguo Wang,Binbin Liu,Jihua Ding,Zhanglin Ji,Lin Qin,Haihong Yin
{"title":"In Situ Polymerized PDOL-Based Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries: Polymerization Mechanisms, Structural Engineering and Applications","authors":"Xi Li,Qiuqi Sun,Zhenguo Wang,Binbin Liu,Jihua Ding,Zhanglin Ji,Lin Qin,Haihong Yin","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05440d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05440d","url":null,"abstract":"Solid and quasi-solid polymer electrolytes have been widely investigated for lithium batteries because of their enhanced safety and potential compatibility with high-energy-density systems. Nevertheless, practical application remains constrained by limited ion transport, insufficient electrode/electrolyte contact, and unstable interfacial evolution. Poly(1,3-dioxolane) (PDOL)-based electrolytes differ from conventional polymer electrolytes because ring-opening polymerization of 1,3-dioxolane (DOL) enables conformal polymer networks to be generated in situ from low-viscosity precursors after cell assembly. Compared with pre-formed polymer electrolytes, PDOL provides intimate electrode/electrolyte contact while minimizing electrolyte leakage. However, the electrochemical performance of PDOL electrolytes remains limited by insufficient ionic conductivity, inadequate mechanical stability, and interfacial degradation. These limitations are closely related to polymerization chemistry, network architecture, Li+ coordination structures, and interfacial evolution. In this review, cationic, Lewis acid-mediated, and anion-mediated DOL ring-opening polymerization pathways are systematically analyzed with particular attention to their reported relationships with electrolyte architecture, ion transport, and electrochemical performance. Subsequently, structural and interfacial engineering strategies, including surface modification, supporting frameworks, crosslinked networks, and multilayer architectures, are critically examined. Applications in lithium-sulfur batteries are further highlighted, with particular focus placed on polysulfide regulation and lithium-metal stabilization. Remaining challenges are subsequently identified, followed by research priorities involving polymerization chemistry, structural regulation, interfacial engineering, and practical evaluation.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218124","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":"Enhancing Redox Reversibility and Interfacial Stability of P2/O3 Biphasic High-Entropy Cathode Enabled by the MgO Coating","authors":"Zhe Mei,Ruijie Luo,Jie Zeng,Chongyu Du,Zhe Qian,Zi-Ting Zhou,Yue Gu,Cheng Zhang,Xie-Jun Sun,Xinyang Yue,Yong-Ning Zhou","doi":"10.1039/d6cc05811f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6cc05811f","url":null,"abstract":"The MgO coating strategy is proposed for improving a P2/O3 biphasic high-entropy layered cathode material. The MgO coating can enhance redox reversibility and suppress side reactions between the cathode surface and the electrolyte, enabling a reversible capacity of 147.6 mAh g−1 at 0.1C.","PeriodicalId":67,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Communications","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218126","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}