ChemphyschemPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400817
Ruby Phul, Guobin Jia, Emir Utku Skercileroglu, Ratnadip De, Yves Carstensen, Andrea Dellith, Jan Dellith, Jonathan Plentz, Ferdi Karadas, Benjamin Dietzek-Ivansic
{"title":"Photocatalytic Oxygen Evolution with Prussain Blue Coated ZnO Origami Core-Shell Nanostructures.","authors":"Ruby Phul, Guobin Jia, Emir Utku Skercileroglu, Ratnadip De, Yves Carstensen, Andrea Dellith, Jan Dellith, Jonathan Plentz, Ferdi Karadas, Benjamin Dietzek-Ivansic","doi":"10.1002/cphc.202400817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202400817","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The design and development of particulate photocatalysts has been an attractive strategy to incorporate earth-abundant metal ions to water splitting devices. Herein, we synthesized CoFe-Prussian blue (PB) coated ZnO origami core-shell nanostructures (PB@ZnO) with different mass ratio of PB components and investigated their photocatalytic water oxidation activities in the presence of an electron scavenger. Photocatalytic experiments reveal that the integration of PB on ZnO boosts the oxygen evolution rate by a factor of ~2.4 compared to bare ZnO origami. We ascribe this increased photocatalytic rate to an improved charge carrier separation and transfer due to the formation of heterojunction at the interface between PB and ZnO. Long-term photocatalytic experiments indicate that the activity and stability of the catalyst was preserved up to 9 h. Our results indicate that the core-shell PB@ZnO particles possess a proper band energy alignment for the photocatalytic water oxidation process.</p>","PeriodicalId":9819,"journal":{"name":"Chemphyschem","volume":" ","pages":"e202400817"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142945587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemphyschemPub Date : 2025-01-07DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400853
Tyler Joe Ziehl, Peng Zhang
{"title":"Colloidal High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles: Synthetic Strategies and Electrocatalytic Properties.","authors":"Tyler Joe Ziehl, Peng Zhang","doi":"10.1002/cphc.202400853","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cphc.202400853","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High entropy alloy (HEA) nanoparticles (NPs) have attracted much attention recently due to their unprecedented chemical properties. As such, HEA NPs have been used as materials with superior activity toward electrocatalytic applications. Specifically, solid solutions that form randomly mixed single-phased structures have received the most focus in the early stages of HEA NP development for their entropic-driven design and multifunctionality. Advances to non-colloidal and colloidal synthetic methods have allowed for the fabrication of solid solution HEA NPs with varying compositions and complexity to be applied to many practical applications such as fuel cells, energy storage and agriculture. In this review, the current colloidal methods and catalytic mechanisms for solid solution HEA NP synthesis are investigated from the physical chemistry perspective. A comprehensive discussion on the theory, techniques, and electrocatalytic applications of colloidal syntheses for successful solid solution HEA NP formation is presented. Finally, promising perspectives for the continued development of physical insights into structure-property relationships towards improved HEA NP synthesis and application are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":9819,"journal":{"name":"Chemphyschem","volume":" ","pages":"e202400853"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142945572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemphyschemPub Date : 2025-01-06DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400937
Beatrice Wolff, Christian Hellenbrandt, Peter Jakes, Rüdiger-A Eichel, Josef Granwehr, Florian Hausen
{"title":"Correlative Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Imaging and Atomic Force Microscopy of Lithium Deposited on Copper.","authors":"Beatrice Wolff, Christian Hellenbrandt, Peter Jakes, Rüdiger-A Eichel, Josef Granwehr, Florian Hausen","doi":"10.1002/cphc.202400937","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cphc.202400937","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anode free concepts are gaining traction in battery research. To improve cyclability, a better understanding of the deposition processes and morphologies is necessary. Correlative experiments enable a link between a variety of properties obtained, such as chemical, mechanical or electrochemical data. Here, electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI) is correlated with atomic force microscopy (AFM) to gain a deeper understanding of the microscopic topography and local stiffness at different intensities of the lithium selective EPRI map. Experiments were carried out on a sample of lithium deposited on copper foil from standard battery electrolyte. The correlation of both methods reveals that EPRI has a high sensitivity towards small lithium structures, while bulk lithium was not detected. The results demonstrate that EPRI can be used for prescreening to identify regions with different properties, which can then be analysed individually by AFM.</p>","PeriodicalId":9819,"journal":{"name":"Chemphyschem","volume":" ","pages":"e202400937"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142930803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modulating the Optical Properties of Cationic Surfactant Cetylpyridinium Chloride and Hydrazine Mediated Copper Nanoclusters.","authors":"Shashi Shekhar, Khokan Paria, Sameeksha Agrawal, Saptarshi Mukherjee","doi":"10.1002/cphc.202401021","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cphc.202401021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the modulations in the optical properties of cationic surfactant cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) and hydrazine-mediated copper nanoclusters (CuNCs). By employing a bottom-up approach, we demonstrate the formation of blue-emitting CuNCs facilitated by CPC and hydrazine, where hydrazine acts both as a reducing and stabilizing agent. The optical properties of the CuNCs were systematically tuned by varying the chain length of the diamine, resulting in emissions ranging from blue to yellow. Comprehensive characterization using spectroscopic and microscopic techniques confirmed the successful formation of CuNCs and elucidated the roles of CPC and hydrazine in their preparation. Control experiments highlighted the critical role of the pyridinium moiety and hydrophobic chain of CPC in enhancing the photoluminescence properties of the CuNCs. This work provides new insights into the design of stable, highly luminescent CuNCs for potential applications in optoelectronics and bioimaging.</p>","PeriodicalId":9819,"journal":{"name":"Chemphyschem","volume":" ","pages":"e202401021"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142930804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemphyschemPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-11-12DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400728
Yuman Hordijk, Marco Dalla Tiezza, Daniela Rodrigues Silva, Trevor A Hamlin
{"title":"Radical Addition Reactions: Hierarchical Ab Initio Benchmark and DFT Performance Study.","authors":"Yuman Hordijk, Marco Dalla Tiezza, Daniela Rodrigues Silva, Trevor A Hamlin","doi":"10.1002/cphc.202400728","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cphc.202400728","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We performed a hierarchical ab initio benchmark study of the gas-phase radical addition reactions of X⋅+C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub> and X⋅+C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub> (X⋅ = CH<sub>3</sub>⋅, NH<sub>2</sub>⋅, OH⋅, SH⋅). The hierarchical series of ab initio methods (HF, MP2, CCSD, CCSD(T)) were paired with a hierarchal series of Dunning basis sets with and without diffuse functions ((aug)-cc-pVDZ, (aug)-cc-pVTZ, (aug)-cc-pVQZ). The HF ground-state wavefunctions were transformed into quasi-restricted orbital (QRO) reference wavefunctions to address spin contamination. Following extrapolation to the CBS limit, the energies from our highest- QRO-CCSD(T)/CBS+ level converged within 0.0-3.4 kcal mol<sup>-1</sup> and 0.0-1.0 kcal mol<sup>-1</sup> concerning the ab initio method and basis set, respectively. Our QRO-CCSD(T)/CBS+ reference data was used to evaluate the performance of 98 density functional theory (DFT) approximations. The MAE of the best functionals for reaction barriers and energies were: OLYP (1.9 kcal mol<sup>-1</sup>), BMK (1.0 kcal mol<sup>-1</sup>), M06-2X (0.9 kcal mol<sup>-1</sup>), MN12-SX (0.8 kcal mol<sup>-1</sup>) and CAM-B3LYP (0.8 kcal mol<sup>-1</sup>). These functionals also accurately reproduce key geometrical parameters of the stationary points within an average 2 % deviation from the reference QRO-CCSD(T)/cc-pVTZ level.</p>","PeriodicalId":9819,"journal":{"name":"Chemphyschem","volume":" ","pages":"e202400728"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142131949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemphyschemPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-11-09DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400757
Tao Zheng, Xia-Guang Zhang
{"title":"Understanding the Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reaction Mechanism of Lattice Tuning of Copper by Silver Single-Crystal Surface.","authors":"Tao Zheng, Xia-Guang Zhang","doi":"10.1002/cphc.202400757","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cphc.202400757","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intermolecular interactions and adsorbate coverage on a metal electrode's surface/interface play an important role in CO<sub>2</sub> reduction reaction (CO<sub>2</sub>RR). Herein, the activity and selectivity of CO<sub>2</sub>RR on bimetallic electrode, where a full monoatomic Cu layer covers on Ag surface (Cu<sub>ML</sub>/Ag) are investigated by using density functional theory calculations. The surface geometric and electronic structure results indicate that there is high electrocatalytic activity for CO<sub>2</sub>RR on the Cu<sub>ML</sub>/Ag electrode. Specifically, the Cu<sub>ML</sub>/Ag surface can accelerate the H<sub>2</sub>O and CO<sub>2</sub> adsorption and hydrogenation while lowering the reaction energy of the rate-determining step. The structure parameters of chemisorbed CO<sub>2</sub> with and without H<sub>2</sub>O demonstrate that activated H<sub>2</sub>O not only promotes the C-O dissociation but also provides the protons required for CO<sub>2</sub>RR on the Cu<sub>ML</sub>/Ag electrode surface. Furthermore, the various reaction mechanism diagrams indicate that the Cu<sub>ML</sub>/Ag electrode has high selectivity for CO<sub>2</sub>RR, and the efficiency of products can be regulated by modulating the reaction's electric potential.</p>","PeriodicalId":9819,"journal":{"name":"Chemphyschem","volume":" ","pages":"e202400757"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142371107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemphyschemPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400653
Mario Prejanò, Isabella Romeo, Luis Felipe Hernández-Ayala, Eduardo Gabriel Guzmán-López, Stefano Alcaro, Annia Galano, Tiziana Marino
{"title":"Evaluating Quinolines: Molecular Dynamics Approach to Assess Their Potential as Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors for Alzheimer's Disease.","authors":"Mario Prejanò, Isabella Romeo, Luis Felipe Hernández-Ayala, Eduardo Gabriel Guzmán-López, Stefano Alcaro, Annia Galano, Tiziana Marino","doi":"10.1002/cphc.202400653","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cphc.202400653","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Quinoline represents a promising scaffold for developing potential drugs because of the wide range of biological and pharmacological activities that it exhibits. In the present study, quinoline derivatives obtained from CADMA-Chem docking protocol were investigated in the mean of molecular dynamics simulations as potential inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase enzyme. The examined species can be partitioned between neutral, dq815 (2,3 dihydroxyl-quinoline-4-carbaldehyde), dq829 (2,3 dihydroxyl-quinoline-8-carboxylic acid methane ester), dq1356 (3,4 dihydroxyl-quinoline-6-carbaldehyde), dq1368 (3,4 dihydroxyl-quinoline-8-carboxylic acid methane ester) and dq2357 (5,6 dihydroxyl-quinoline-8-carboxylic acid methane ester), and deprotonated, dq815_dep, dq829_dep, dq1356_dep and dq2357_dep. Twelve molecular dynamics simulations were performed including those of natural acetylcholine, of the well-known donepezil inhibitor and of the founder quinoline chosen as reference. Key intermolecular interactions were detected and discussed to describe the different dynamic behavior of all the considered species. Binding energies calculation from MMPBSA well accounts for the dynamic behavior observed in the simulation time proposing dq1368 as promising candidate for the inhibition of acetylcholinesterase. Retrosynthetic route for the production of the investigated compounds is also proposed.</p>","PeriodicalId":9819,"journal":{"name":"Chemphyschem","volume":" ","pages":"e202400653"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11747580/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142280982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemphyschemPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400679
Mira Jhawar, Sandip Paul
{"title":"Unveiling the Inhibitory Effect of Magnolol in the Aggregation of Human Calcitonin (hCT): A Comprehensive In-Silico Study.","authors":"Mira Jhawar, Sandip Paul","doi":"10.1002/cphc.202400679","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cphc.202400679","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amyloid fibril formation by some peptides leads to several neurogenetic disorders. This limits their biological activity and increases cytotoxicity. Human calcitonin (hCT), 32 residue containing peptide, known for regulating calcium and phosphate concentration in the blood tends to form amyloids in aqueous medium. Polyphenols are very effective in inhibiting fibril formation. As part of our research, we have taken Magnolol (Mag), which is extracted from the Chinese herb Magnolia officinalis. To evaluate its effectiveness as an inhibitor in preventing hCT aggregation, we conducted an all-atom classical molecular dynamics simulation with varying concentrations of Mag. In presence of Mag, hCT maintains its helical conformation in higher order. Magnolol primarily interacts with hCT via van der Waals interaction. Asp15 residue of hCT, resides in the amyloid region (D<sub>15</sub>FNKF<sub>19</sub>) forms strong hydrogen bonding interaction with Mag. Moreover, aromatic residues of hCT interact with Mag through π-π stacking interactions. Our work gives insights into the molecular mechanism of Magnolol in the inhibition of hCT fibril formation to use it as a potential candidate for medicinal purpose.</p>","PeriodicalId":9819,"journal":{"name":"Chemphyschem","volume":" ","pages":"e202400679"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142459198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemphyschemPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-11-18DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400521
Vladimir P Zhdanov
{"title":"Elementary Steps of Catalytic Reactions Occurring on Metallic Alloy Nanoparticles.","authors":"Vladimir P Zhdanov","doi":"10.1002/cphc.202400521","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cphc.202400521","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Catalytic reactions running in an adsorbed overlayer on metallic alloy nanoparticles are of high interest in the context of applications in the chemical industry. The understanding of the corresponding kinetics is, however, still limited. One of the reasons of this state of the art is the interplay between adsorption and adsorbate-influenced segregation of metal atoms inside alloy nanoparticles. I scrutinize this interplay by using a generic field model of segregation and the mean-field approximation in order to describe adsorption, desorption, and elementary catalytic reactions. Under steady-state conditions, the segregation is demonstrated to be manifested in the change of the dependence of the activation energies of desorption or elementary reactions on coverage, and the sign of this change is positive. The effect of this change on the apparent reaction orders is briefly discussed as well.</p>","PeriodicalId":9819,"journal":{"name":"Chemphyschem","volume":" ","pages":"e202400521"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142280981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemphyschemPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400758
Edward Cummings, Peter B Karadakov
{"title":"Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity Reversals between the Electronic Ground State and the Two Lowest Triplet States of Thiophene.","authors":"Edward Cummings, Peter B Karadakov","doi":"10.1002/cphc.202400758","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cphc.202400758","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is shown, by examining the variations in off-nucleus isotropic magnetic shielding around a molecule, that thiophene which is aromatic in its electronic ground state (S<sub>0</sub>) becomes antiaromatic in its lowest triplet state (T<sub>1</sub>) and then reverts to being aromatic in T<sub>2</sub>. Geometry relaxation has an opposite effect on the aromaticities of the ππ* vertical T<sub>1</sub> and T<sub>2</sub>: The antiaromaticity of T<sub>1</sub> is reduced whereas the aromaticity of T<sub>2</sub> is enhanced. The shielding picture around T<sub>2</sub> is found to closely resemble those around certain second singlet ππ* excited states (S<sub>2</sub>), for example, those of benzene and cyclooctatetraene, thought to be \"strongly aromatic\" because of their very negative nucleus-independent chemical shift (NICS) values. It is argued that while NICS values correctly follow the changes in aromaticity along the potential energy surface of a single electronic state, the use of NICS values for the purpose of quantitative comparisons between the aromaticities of different electronic states cannot be justified theoretically and should be avoided. \"Strongly aromatic\" S<sub>2</sub> and T<sub>2</sub> states should be referred to simply as \"aromatic\" because detailed comparisons between the properties of these states and those of the corresponding S<sub>0</sub> states do not suggest higher levels of aromaticity.</p>","PeriodicalId":9819,"journal":{"name":"Chemphyschem","volume":" ","pages":"e202400758"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11747585/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142280979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}