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Synthesis and photochromic properties of a bis(diarylethene)-naphthopyran hybrid (2014)
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Erko, F. G., Cseh, L., Berthet, J., Mehl, G. H., & Delbaere, S. (2015). Synthesis and photochromic properties of a bis(diarylethene)-naphthopyran hybrid. Dyes and pigments : an international journal, 115(April), 102-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2014.12.015

The synthesis and photochromic properties of a triphotochromic molecule consisting of one naphthopyran flanked by two diarylethene units investigated by UV-Visible and NMR spectroscopies are reported. Six different states resulting from the open/clos... Read More about Synthesis and photochromic properties of a bis(diarylethene)-naphthopyran hybrid.

High-pressure studies of palladium and platinum thioether macrocyclic dihalide complexes (2014)
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Allan, D. R., Bailey, D., Bird, N., Blake, A. J., Champness, N. R., Huang, D., …Schröder, M. (2014). High-pressure studies of palladium and platinum thioether macrocyclic dihalide complexes. Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials, 70(3), 469-486. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520614008786

The mononuclear macrocyclic PdII complex cis-[PdCl 2([9]aneS3)] ([9]aneS3 = 1,4,7-trithiacyclo- nonane) converts at 44kbar into an intensely coloured chain polymer exhibiting distorted octahedral coordination at the metal centre and an unprecedented... Read More about High-pressure studies of palladium and platinum thioether macrocyclic dihalide complexes.

Compartmentalization of incompatible reagents within Pickering emulsion droplets for one-pot cascade reactions (2014)
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Yang, H., Fu, L., Wei, L., Liang, J., & Binks, B. P. (2015). Compartmentalization of incompatible reagents within Pickering emulsion droplets for one-pot cascade reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(3), 1362-1371. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja512337z

It is a dream that future synthetic chemistry can mimic living systems to process multistep cascade reactions in a one-pot fashion. One of the key challenges is the mutual destruction of incompatible or opposing reagents, for example, acid and base,... Read More about Compartmentalization of incompatible reagents within Pickering emulsion droplets for one-pot cascade reactions.

Correction: Flexoelectric behavior of bimesogenic liquid crystals in the nematic phase - Observation of a new self-assembly pattern at the twist-bend nematic and the nematic interface (2014)
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Balachandran, R., Panov, V. P., Panarin, Y. P., Vij, J. K., Tamba, M. G., Mehl, G. H., & Song, J. K. (2014). Correction: Flexoelectric behavior of bimesogenic liquid crystals in the nematic phase - Observation of a new self-assembly pattern at the twist-bend nematic and the nematic interface. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2(47), 10217. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc90153c

On the structure of the Nx phase of symmetric dimers: inferences from NMR (2014)
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Hoffmann, A., Vanakaras, A. G., Kohlmeier, A., Mehl, G., & Photinos, D. J. (2015). On the structure of the Nx phase of symmetric dimers: inferences from NMR. Soft matter, 11(5), 850-855. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sm02480j

NMR measurements on a selectively deuterated liquid crystal dimer CB-C9-CB, exhibiting two nematic phases, show that the molecules in the lower temperature nematic phase, NX, experience a chiral environment and are ordered about a uniformly oriented... Read More about On the structure of the Nx phase of symmetric dimers: inferences from NMR.

Iron(III) bromide catalyzed bromination of 2-tert-butylpyrene and corresponding position-dependent aryl-functionalized pyrene derivatives (2014)
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Feng, X., Hu, J., Tomiyasu, H., Tao, Z., Redshaw, C., Elsegood, M. R. J., …Yamato, T. (2014). Iron(III) bromide catalyzed bromination of 2-tert-butylpyrene and corresponding position-dependent aryl-functionalized pyrene derivatives. RSC advances, 5(12), 8835-8848. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA12216J

The present work probes the bromination mechanism of 2-tert-butylpyrene (1), which regioselectively affords mono-, di-, tri- and tetra-bromopyrenes, by theoretical calculation and detailed experimental methods. The bromine atom may be directed to the... Read More about Iron(III) bromide catalyzed bromination of 2-tert-butylpyrene and corresponding position-dependent aryl-functionalized pyrene derivatives.

Stabilization of boron carbide via silicon doping (2014)
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Proctor, J. E., Bhakhri, V., Hao, R., Prior, T. J., Scheler, T., Gregoryanz, E., …Giulani, F. (2015). Stabilization of boron carbide via silicon doping. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 27(1), Article 015401. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/27/1/015401

Boron carbide is one of the lightest and hardest ceramics, but its applications are limited by its poor stability against a partial phase separation into separate boron and carbon. Phase separation is observed under high non-hydrostatic stress (both... Read More about Stabilization of boron carbide via silicon doping.

Structural insights into magnetic clusters grown inside virus capsids (2014)
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Jaafar, M., Aljabali, A. A. A., Berlanga, I., Mas-Ballesté, R., Saxena, P., Warren, S., …de Pablo, P. J. (2014). Structural insights into magnetic clusters grown inside virus capsids. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 6(23), 20936-20942. https://doi.org/10.1021/am505682x

Magnetic nanoparticles have multiple applications in materials science. In particular, virus capsids have been suggested as promising templates for building up nanometric-sized magnetic clusters by taking advantage of their inner cavity as a nanoreac... Read More about Structural insights into magnetic clusters grown inside virus capsids.

Fabrication of salt–hydrogel marbles and hollow-shell microcapsules by an aerosol gelation technique (2014)
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Rutkevičius, M., Mehl, G. H., Petkov, J. T., Stoyanov, S. D., & Paunov, V. N. (2015). Fabrication of salt–hydrogel marbles and hollow-shell microcapsules by an aerosol gelation technique. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 3(1), 82-89. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tb01443j

We designed a new method for preparation of liquid marbles by using hydrophilic particles. Salt–hydrogel marbles were prepared by atomising droplets of hydrogel solution in a cold air column followed by rolling of the collected hydrogel microbeads in... Read More about Fabrication of salt–hydrogel marbles and hollow-shell microcapsules by an aerosol gelation technique.

Polymerisable octahedral rhenium cluster complexes as precursors for photo/electroluminescent polymers (2014)
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Efremova, O. A., Brylev, K. A., Kozlova, O., White, M. S., Shestopalov, M. A., Kitamura, N., …Sutherland, A. J. (2014). Polymerisable octahedral rhenium cluster complexes as precursors for photo/electroluminescent polymers. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2(40), 8630-8638. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc01643b

New polymerisable photoluminescent octahedral rhenium cluster complexes trans-[{Re₆Q₈}(TBP)₄VB)₂] (Q = S or Se; TBP – p-tert-butylpyridine; VB – vinyl benzoate) have been synthesised, characterised and used to construct rhe-nium cluster-organic polym... Read More about Polymerisable octahedral rhenium cluster complexes as precursors for photo/electroluminescent polymers.