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Experimental and theoretical studies of the effect of molecular conformation on the photophysical properties in the pyrene system (2022)
Journal Article
Song, X., Guo, H., Yu, S., Huang, L., Redshaw, C., Zhang, Q., …Feng, X. (2023). Experimental and theoretical studies of the effect of molecular conformation on the photophysical properties in the pyrene system. Dyes and pigments : an international journal, 210, Article 111036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2022.111036

Disordered motion is an intrinsic property of molecules. The use of controllable molecular motion can not only achieve interesting molecular geometry, but can also induce novel opto-electronic behaviour. Herein, a set of pyrene-based compounds were s... Read More about Experimental and theoretical studies of the effect of molecular conformation on the photophysical properties in the pyrene system.

Edible oil-water foamulsions stabilized by vesicle network of sucrose ester (2022)
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Zheng, R., Hu, X., Su, C., Jiang, J., Cui, Z., & Binks, B. P. (2023). Edible oil-water foamulsions stabilized by vesicle network of sucrose ester. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 371, Article 121066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2022.121066

Foamulsions are tri-phase dispersions consisting of oil, water and gas. The stabilizers of foamulsions are typically single surfactants or their mixtures. However, foamulsions stabilized by molecular surfactants are usually unstable against long term... Read More about Edible oil-water foamulsions stabilized by vesicle network of sucrose ester.

Host-Guest Synergy of CH3NH3PbBr3@Ln-MOFs Enabling Tunable Green Luminescence and Switchable Memory (2022)
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Zhao, L., Redshaw, C., Ding, K., Zhang, P., Chen, B., Chen, Z., …Li, H. (2023). Host-Guest Synergy of CH3NH3PbBr3@Ln-MOFs Enabling Tunable Green Luminescence and Switchable Memory. Applied Surface Science, 614, Article 156082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.156082

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) contain ordered pores capable of encapsulating varied types of guests and provide a platform to expand the flexibility and versatility of the host-guest composites. Herein, by encapsulating CH3NH3PbBr3 NPS into Ln-MOFs... Read More about Host-Guest Synergy of CH3NH3PbBr3@Ln-MOFs Enabling Tunable Green Luminescence and Switchable Memory.

Supramolecular assemblies of cucurbit[n]urils and 4-aminopyridine controlled by cucurbit[n]uril size (n = 5, 6, 7 and 8) (2022)
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Lu, Y., Yu, Z., Yang, X., Dai, J., Shan, P., Feng, X., …Xiao, X. (2023). Supramolecular assemblies of cucurbit[n]urils and 4-aminopyridine controlled by cucurbit[n]uril size (n = 5, 6, 7 and 8). Chinese Chemical Letters, 34(7), Article 108040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2022.108040

The binding interactions between 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) and a series of cucurbit[n]urils (Q[5], Q[6], TMeQ[6], Q[7], Q[8]) have been studied using 1H NMR spectroscopy, UV–vis absorption spectroscopy, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and X-ray c... Read More about Supramolecular assemblies of cucurbit[n]urils and 4-aminopyridine controlled by cucurbit[n]uril size (n = 5, 6, 7 and 8).

Supramolecular self-assembly between symmetric tetramethyl cucurbit[6]uril and dimethylphenylpiperazine hydrochloride (2022)
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Hu, J. H., Yu, Z. C., Zhang, J. Y., Liu, Z. N., Hou, R. X., Xiong, Y., …Xiao, X. (2023). Supramolecular self-assembly between symmetric tetramethyl cucurbit[6]uril and dimethylphenylpiperazine hydrochloride. Polyhedron, 230, Article 116241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2022.116241

The interaction between symmetric tetramethyl cucurbit[6]uril (TMeQ[6]) and 2,3-dimethylphenylpiperazine hydrochloride (PMY) has been studied in the presence of [CdCl4]2-. Each port of the TMeQ[6] is connected to PMY through weak interactions such as... Read More about Supramolecular self-assembly between symmetric tetramethyl cucurbit[6]uril and dimethylphenylpiperazine hydrochloride.

Pillared MOFs: structure and ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters (2022)
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Gong, Y., Cheng, F., Chen, F., Beamish-Cook, J., Elsegood, M. R., Elsegood, M. R. J., …Redshaw, C. (2023). Pillared MOFs: structure and ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters. CrystEngComm, 25(2), 267-283. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ce01317g

The solvothermal reaction of Zn(NO3)2·6H2O with 5-aminoisophthalic acid and 4,4′-bipyridyl (4,4′-bipy) led to the self-assembly of the known 3-D hybrid H-bonded/covalent structure {[Zn(5-AIP)(4,4′-bipy)0.5]·DMF}n (1·DMF), but with DMF here (rather th... Read More about Pillared MOFs: structure and ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters.

The experiences and perceptions of female breast cancer patients regarding weight management during and after treatment for oestrogen-receptor positive disease: a qualitative study (2022)
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Saxton, J., Pickering, K., Wane, S., Crank, H., Anderson, A., Cain, H., …Wilson, C. (2022). The experiences and perceptions of female breast cancer patients regarding weight management during and after treatment for oestrogen-receptor positive disease: a qualitative study. BMC Cancer, 22(1), Article 1189. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-10238-7

Background: Weight gain is commonly observed during and after breast cancer treatment and is associated with poorer survival outcomes, notably in women with oestrogen-receptor positive disease. The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate the... Read More about The experiences and perceptions of female breast cancer patients regarding weight management during and after treatment for oestrogen-receptor positive disease: a qualitative study.

Host-guest inclusion complexes formed between a symmetrical tetrasubstituted cucurbit[6]uril and glycine (2022)
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Yuan, S. W., Shan, P. H., Yang, M. X., Yang, M. X., Ma, P. H., Prior, T. J., …Xiao, X. (2022). Host-guest inclusion complexes formed between a symmetrical tetrasubstituted cucurbit[6]uril and glycine. CrystEngComm, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ce01308h

Herein, we have investigated the host-guest inclusion complexes formed on interaction of the symmetric tetramethyl-substituted cucurbit[6]uril (TMeQ[6]) with glycine (Gly) under different conditions. The interactions have been studied both in solutio... Read More about Host-guest inclusion complexes formed between a symmetrical tetrasubstituted cucurbit[6]uril and glycine.

Preparation of pelargonic acid vesicles and sustained drug release (2022)
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Wang, Z., Zhang, Y., Chen, Q., Xiao, X., & Redshaw, C. (2023). Preparation of pelargonic acid vesicles and sustained drug release. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 101(2), 99-109. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2022-0075

This study has selected the medium-chain saturated fatty acid pelargonic acid as the raw material for the first time, and added the surface catalyst Tween 80 to the aqueous solution to form pelargonic acid–Tween 80 composite vesicles by a surface ten... Read More about Preparation of pelargonic acid vesicles and sustained drug release.

Crystallization-induced emission enhancement of alkyl chain-dependent pyrene-based luminogens: Visual detection of nitro-explosives (2022)
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Yu, Z., Cao, J., Li, H., Yang, G., Zhao, W., Wang, C., …Yamato, T. (2023). Crystallization-induced emission enhancement of alkyl chain-dependent pyrene-based luminogens: Visual detection of nitro-explosives. Journal of Luminescence, 253, Article 119439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2022.119439

In view of the widespread applications and urgent need for efficient blue emitting materials, the synthesis of such materials has seen renewed interest. In the present work, three alkyl chain-dependent blue emitting pyrene-based luminogens were synth... Read More about Crystallization-induced emission enhancement of alkyl chain-dependent pyrene-based luminogens: Visual detection of nitro-explosives.

Bn2DT3A, a Chelator for 68Ga Positron Emission Tomography: Hydroxide Coordination Increases Biological Stability of [68Ga][Ga(Bn2DT3A)(OH)]− (2022)
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Price, T. W., Renard, I., Prior, T. J., Kubíček, V., Benoit, D. M., Archibald, S. J., …Stasiuk, G. J. (2022). Bn2DT3A, a Chelator for 68Ga Positron Emission Tomography: Hydroxide Coordination Increases Biological Stability of [68Ga][Ga(Bn2DT3A)(OH)]−. Inorganic chemistry, 61(43), 17059–17067. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01992

The chelator Bn2DT3A was used to produce a novel 68Ga complex for positron emission tomography (PET). Unusually, this system is stabilized by a coordinated hydroxide in aqueous solutions above pH 5, which confers sufficient stability for it to be use... Read More about Bn2DT3A, a Chelator for 68Ga Positron Emission Tomography: Hydroxide Coordination Increases Biological Stability of [68Ga][Ga(Bn2DT3A)(OH)]−.

Advanced biomedical applications of cell clusteroids based on aqueous twophase Pickering emulsion systems (2022)
Thesis
Wang, A. (2022). Advanced biomedical applications of cell clusteroids based on aqueous twophase Pickering emulsion systems. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4249064

The development of in vitro models for advancing the research of cell biology and cell physiology is of great importance to the fields of biotechnology, cancer study, drug testing, toxicity study. The emerging field includes tissue engineering and re... Read More about Advanced biomedical applications of cell clusteroids based on aqueous twophase Pickering emulsion systems.

Cucurbit[6]uril-based carbon dots for recognizing l-tryptophan and capecitabine (2022)
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Liu, M., Cen, R., Lu, J. H., Meng, T. H., Li, C. R., Redshaw, C., …Xiao, X. (in press). Cucurbit[6]uril-based carbon dots for recognizing l-tryptophan and capecitabine. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2qm00589a

Fluorescent nitrogen and fluorine doped carbon dots (CDs) were prepared by a hydrothermal method using levofloxacin (LVFX) and cucurbit[6]uril (Q[6]) as the nitrogen and carbon sources, respectively. Decomposition of LVFX occurred at elevated tempera... Read More about Cucurbit[6]uril-based carbon dots for recognizing l-tryptophan and capecitabine.

New dual-mode orthogonal tunable fluorescence systems based on cucurbit[8]uril: White light, 3D printing, and anti-counterfeit applications (2022)
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Zhang, T. T., Yang, X. N., Hu, J. H., Luo, Y., Liu, H. J., Tao, Z., …Redshaw, C. (2023). New dual-mode orthogonal tunable fluorescence systems based on cucurbit[8]uril: White light, 3D printing, and anti-counterfeit applications. Chemical Engineering Journal, 452, Article 138960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.138960

In this work, we have utilized a supramolecular approach to control emission, and generate white light and have applied the system to both 3D printing and counterfeiting applications. In particular, we report two new dual-mode orthogonal tunable fluo... Read More about New dual-mode orthogonal tunable fluorescence systems based on cucurbit[8]uril: White light, 3D printing, and anti-counterfeit applications.

One-Pot Synthesis of Pyreno[2,1-b]furan Molecules with Two-Photon Absorption Properties (2022)
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Wang, X., Zhang, C., Zeng, J., Mao, X., Redshaw, C., Niu, G., …Feng, X. (2022). One-Pot Synthesis of Pyreno[2,1-b]furan Molecules with Two-Photon Absorption Properties. Journal of Organic Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.2c01303

The development of large π-conjugated polycyclic heteroaromatic materials is of immense interest, both in the academic as well as the industrial community. Herein, we present the efficient one-pot synthesis of novel pyreno[2,1-b]furan molecules from... Read More about One-Pot Synthesis of Pyreno[2,1-b]furan Molecules with Two-Photon Absorption Properties.

A novel pillar[5]arene-cucurbit[10]uril based host-guest complex: Synthesis, characterization and detection of paraquat (2022)
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Luo, Y., Zhang, W., Zhao, J., Yang, M. X., Ren, Q., Redshaw, C., …Xiao, X. (2023). A novel pillar[5]arene-cucurbit[10]uril based host-guest complex: Synthesis, characterization and detection of paraquat. Chinese Chemical Letters, 34(3), Article 107780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2022.107780

The macrocyclic family comprising pillar[n]arenes and cucurbit[n]urils have received much attention recently. However, studies on the construction of supramolecular complexes formed directly with derivatized pillar[n]arenes and cucurbit[n]urils are s... Read More about A novel pillar[5]arene-cucurbit[10]uril based host-guest complex: Synthesis, characterization and detection of paraquat.

Ring Opening Polymerization of Lactides and Lactones by Multimetallic Titanium Complexes Derived from the Acids Ph2C(X)CO2H (X = OH, NH2) (2022)
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Zhang, X., Prior, T. J., Chen, K., Santoro, O., & Redshaw, C. (2022). Ring Opening Polymerization of Lactides and Lactones by Multimetallic Titanium Complexes Derived from the Acids Ph2C(X)CO2H (X = OH, NH2). Catalysts, 12(9), Article 935. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12090935

The reactions of the titanium alkoxide [Ti(OR)4] (R = Me, nPr, iPr, tBu) with the acids 2,2’-Ph2C(X)(CO2H), where X = OH and NH2, i.e., benzilic acid (2,2’-diphenylglycolic acid, L1H2), and 2,2’-diphenylglycine (L2H3), have been investigated. The var... Read More about Ring Opening Polymerization of Lactides and Lactones by Multimetallic Titanium Complexes Derived from the Acids Ph2C(X)CO2H (X = OH, NH2).

Spore exines increase vitamin D clinical bioavailability by mucoadhesion and bile triggered release (2022)
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Diego-Taboada, A., Sathyapalan, T., Courts, F., Lorch, M., Almutairi, F., Burke, B. P., …Mackenzie, G. (2022). Spore exines increase vitamin D clinical bioavailability by mucoadhesion and bile triggered release. Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 350, 244-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2022.08.017

Sporopollenin exine capsules (SpECs) are microcapsules derived from the outer shells (exines) of plant spore and pollen grains. This work reports the first clinical study on healthy volunteers to show enhanced bioavailability of vitamin D encapsulate... Read More about Spore exines increase vitamin D clinical bioavailability by mucoadhesion and bile triggered release.