RSC – Chem. Sci. latest articles- Dynamic amphiphilic additive with dual solubility modulates Zn²⁺ solvation and in-situ SEI for dendrite-free zinc anode June 26, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC03646A, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Can-Fei Xiao, Yong-Xia Lu, Ming Lu, Dongxiang Luo, Kang Xiao, Yongke Wang, Zhao-Qing LiuAqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have garnered significant attention due to their inherent safety and cost-effectiveness, with electrolyte additives playing a […]Can-Fei Xiao
- Tailoring dual-hydrophobic microenvironment for tandem CO2/CO feedstock to enhance CO2 electroreduction on Cu-based catalysts June 26, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC01226K, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Tete Zhao, Ziyao Zhou, Xiao Wang, Kuiming Liu, Jialei Chen, Kang Liu, Yue Li, Meng Yu, Yan Xu, Zhenhua Yan, Lifang Jiao, Fangyi ChengAchieving high selectivity for value-added products in the electrochemical reduction […]Tete Zhao
- Promoting Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to n-Propanol over Ethanol at Cu Step Sites June 26, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC02562A, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Yuanyuan Xue, Ximeng Lv, Chao Yang, Lu Song, Lijuan Zhang, Gengfeng ZhengObtaining valuable C3+ products directly from the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 or CO is an attractive but challenging task, due to the […]Yuanyuan Xue
- Recent Advances in MOF Composites for Photocatalysis June 26, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC03065J, Review Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Chenxi Zhang, Yanhong Wu, Dandan Li, Hai-Long JiangMetal-organic frameworks (MOFs), characterized by their tunable porosity, high surface area, and structural diversity, have emerged as promising materials for photocatalysis. To address inherent limitations of […]Chenxi Zhang
- Electroreductive room-temperature C–H activations with RuCl3·nH2O precatalyst via cathodic ruthenium(III/II) manifold June 26, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5SC02780B, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Takuya Michiyuki, Tristan von Münchow, Zhipeng Lin, Binbin Yuan, João C. A. Oliveira, Lutz AckermannElectroreductive C–H activations with RuCl3·nH2O precatalyst proceed at exceedingly mild temperatures. Detailed mechanistic studies offer evidence for a cathodic […]Takuya Michiyuki
- Personal recollections of a quantum chemist June 25, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5SC03085D, Perspective Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Frank WeinholdSome recollections of how H-bonding and other resonance-type phenomena came to be described by Natural Resonance Theory (NRT).To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The […]Frank Weinhold
- All-component active metal-organic frameworks for tailored chemoradiotherapy of self-defensive tumor June 25, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC02482J, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Xiang Xu, Zhou Yang, Song-Song Bao, Zhiyuan Xu, Tianrui Liu, Lina Wu, Jianping LeiRadiotherapy is a widely used clinical treatment for locoregional cancers, but still faces with radiation resistance arising from abundant glutathione […]Xiang Xu
- Photoactive Monofunctional Pt(II)-Cyanine Complex for Nucleus and Mitochondria Dual-Targeted Antitumor Therapy June 25, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC01616A, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Ting He, Qiaojv Ren, Yu Zhang, Qinan Tang, Chao Jiang, Yurong Liu, Ziguang Wang, Shan Lei, Yifan Zhang, Peng Huang, Jing LinMonofunctional platinum (Pt) complexes, characterized by their single reactive site capable of […]Ting He
- A ferroelectric proton conductor with colossal polarization induced by in-plane symmetry breaking in a two-dimensional coordination polymer June 25, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4SC08700C, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Yanqing Song, Yuta Tsuji, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Takashi Kikuchi, Yuxin Shi, Yusuke Murakami, Kotaro Hiramatsu, Benjamin Le Ouay, Masaaki Ohba, Ryo OhtaniThis work reports the first 2D ferroelectric proton conductor consisting of cyanido-bridged undulating […]Yanqing Song
- Phosphonium Fullerides: Isolable Zwitterionic Adducts of a Phosphine with C60 June 25, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC00367A, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Maike Barbara Röthel, Jonas Hermann Franzen, Daniel Leitner, Thomas Hofer, Michael Seidl, Fabian DielmannAlthough fullerene derivatization has been extensively studied for decades, zwitterionic adducts with neutral Lewis bases are rare, and those with […]Maike Barbara Röthel
- Insight into Ni active sites coordination in nickel-manganese spinels for methanol electrooxidation catalysis June 25, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC02883C, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Ruiying Guo, Chunru Liu, Yun Yang, Shuli Wang, Ligang FengAs non-precious catalysts, Ni-based catalysts play a significant role in methanol oxidation for energy conversion technologies. At the same time, the effect of the […]Ruiying Guo
- Responsive anion transport with a Hamilton receptor-based anionophore controlled by photo-activation and host-guest competitive inhibition June 24, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC02619A, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Manzoor Ahmad, Andrew Docker, Matthew J LangtonIon transport across biological membranes, facilitated by naturally occurring ion channels and pumps, is crucial for many biological functions. Many of these transport systems are gated, such […]Manzoor Ahmad
- Dynamic breathing behaviour of the titanium-based metal-organic framework NTU-9 upon adsorption of water and organic solvents June 24, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC02585K, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Julia Emilie Knapp, Borja Ortín-Rubio, Fabian Heck, Kristina Gjorgjevikj, Anastasia Sleptsova, Simon Krause, Sebastian Bette, Bettina V. LotschUnderstanding the structural response of framework materials to external stimuli has been of great interest. However, […]Julia Emilie Knapp
- Multi-objective drug design with a scaffold-aware variational autoencoder June 24, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4SC08736D, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Tiejun Dong, Linlin You, Calvin Yu-Chian ChenScafVAE is a scaffold-aware variational autoencoder for the de novo graph-based multi-objective drug design, featured with a novel bond scaffold-based generation process, perplexity-inspired fragmentation, and surrogate model […]Tiejun Dong
- Catalytic Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Antitubercular Agents (–)-Bedaquiline and (–)-Sudapyridine enabled by Dynamic Kinetic Resolution-Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation June 24, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC03865K, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Jiyao Han, Dongliang Zhang, Yuan Tao, Pei Tang, Fener Chen(–)-Bedaquiline [(–)-BDQ] is considered to be one of the most promising therapeutic agents for tuberculosis over 50 years. However, there are limited general and […]Jiyao Han
- Precision Dendritic-Supramolecular Glycan Assemblies for Probing Multivalent Lectin Interactions June 24, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC03534A, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Tanvi M Bhide, Garrett J Musil, Wade Shipley, Emerson Hall, Alex Guseman, Andrea R Tao, Julia StauberMultivalent glycan-protein binding events participate in various physiological functions including cell signaling, immune response, pathogen-host recognition among […]Tanvi M Bhide
- Weak Acid-Responsive Porous Polyelectrolyte Membrane Enables High-Efficiency Zinc Anode Interface June 24, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC02326B, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Wenbin Li, Changhao Wang, Wenxuan Hu, Yongkang Wang, Congcong Li, Xiao Liu, Linyan Su, Beibei Yang, Yunsong Li, Duan Bin, Hongbin LuPolymer coatings are promising candidates as artificial interfacial materials due to their […]Wenbin Li
- Topological perturbation to a standard dehydrogenation catalyst, Pt3Sn June 24, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC02518D, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.William T. Laderer, Harry William Toriel Morgan, Xuance Jiang, Vojtech Vlcek, Anastassia AlexandrovaTopological materials, which exhibit protected topological surface states (TSS) nearthe Fermi level, have been proposed to be good catalysts. Topological catalysis […]William T. Laderer
- Structural determination of MCOFs: status, challenges and perspectives June 23, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5SC03670D, Perspective Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.A. Boran, R. González-Gómez, S. Hennessey, P. FarràsPorous materials have promising characteristics, including tuneable chemical and optical properties, which can be further expanded by their metalation. Yet, structural mapping of metalated covalent organic frameworks […]A. Boran
- Photoredox-catalyzed Regioselective Allene Alkoxycarbonylation for the Synthesis of α-Allyl-γ-lactones June 23, 2025Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SC02854J, Edge Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Jennifer Schomaker, Elijah Marris, Ashley L. Palecek, Federico Barbieri, Derek B. Hu, Ken S. S. LeeA dual photoredox/hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) strategy for the radical alkoxycarbonylation of allenes is described. Alkoxycarbonyl radicals, generated […]Jennifer Schomaker
- Dynamic amphiphilic additive with dual solubility modulates Zn²⁺ solvation and in-situ SEI for dendrite-free zinc anode June 26, 2025
