Recent Publications from the Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of anion conductive gel polymer electrolytes with high ion conductivity and long-term stability for rechargeable zinc air battery

Y Kuwahara, M Ono, Y Nara, BJ Rhodes, AC Forse, H Kawakami, M Tanaka

MRS Communications

(2025)

(doi: 10.1557/s43579-025-00898-4)

Identification of Blood Biomarkers for Bipolar Disorder using SERS and Explainable Machine Learning

JK Zaki, NS Potter, J Tomasik, JA McCune, S Bahn, OA Scherman

(2025)

(doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-5sqxr)

Electrochemical CO2 Capture by a Quinone-Based Covalent Organic Framework.

MA Khan, Z Xu, M Muzammil, S Bird, M Munawar, F Salam, NA Hartley, J Taylor, K Amin, J Ling, HRNB Enninful, NZ Ali, K Hetze, S Cao, Y Lu, Z Wei, M Oschatz, PJ Milner, AC Forse

J Am Chem Soc

(2025)

jacs.5c12304

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.5c12304)

Heavy mice and lighter things: how solid-state NMR spectroscopy gives a new view of the extracellular matrix

T Kress, MJ Duer

Actualité Chimique

(2025)

508-509

(doi: 10.63133/scf.act-chim.2025.508.08)

Floatable carbon nitride-plastic composite for paired photocatalysis at the liquid-liquid interface

A Rogolino, S Linley, PK Kwarteng, SA Bonke, C Pulignani, E Reisner

Chem

(2025)

102827

(doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102827)

Precise synthesis of spherical aluminium oxo clusters for accurate surface guest recognition

S-H Shen, J Hao, M Zhang, Y-H Yu, J-B Chen, D Wright, C Li, W-H Fang, J Zhang

Nature Synthesis

(2025)

(doi: 10.1038/s44160-025-00927-z)

(Invited) Molecular Insight into Ion Transport and Thermodynamics in Nanoconfined Electrolyte Solutions

KD Fong, CP Grey, A Michaelides

ECS Meeting Abstracts

(2025)

MA2025-02

2614

(doi: 10.1149/ma2025-02542614mtgabs)

(Invited) Li Batteries and Beyond: New NMR Studies of Li and Na Electrodes and Electrolytes

CP Grey

ECS Meeting Abstracts

(2025)

MA2025-02

987

(doi: 10.1149/ma2025-027987mtgabs)

Synthesis and Electrolyte Study of Lithium Bis(perfluorinated pinacolato)Borate for Lithium-Ion Batteries

DMC Ould, Z Ruff, ME Penrod, PN Didwal, T Weiss, K Mylrea, HE Smith, AD Bond, RS Weatherup, CP Grey, DS Wright

Chemistry – A European Journal

(2025)

e02653

(doi: 10.1002/chem.202502653)

Factors Impacting the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Electrolyte Adsorbed in Layered Metal–Organic Frameworks

CJ Balhatchet, JW Gittins, ID Seymour, RJ Bragg, S-J Shin, T Trisukhon, T Kress, JM Griffin, AC Forse

J Phys Chem C Nanomater Interfaces

(2025)

129

21035

(doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c04963)

Structural Interconversions and Guest Binding Properties of Tetrakis(formylpyridine)-Based Pseudo-Cubic and Trigonal-Prismatic Metal–Organic Capsules

Y Du, TK Ronson, Y Yang, JR Nitschke

J Am Chem Soc

(2025)

147

43927

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.5c16191)

Solar Lignin Reforming with Tunable Selectivity Using a Hybrid Photocatalyst in Aqueous Solution

L Chen, Y Liu, S Mitra, D Kim, Z Huang, DM Vahey, A Bin Mohamad Annuar, E Reisner

J Am Chem Soc

(2025)

147

43509

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.5c11981)

A foundation model for atomistic materials chemistry.

I Batatia, P Benner, Y Chiang, AM Elena, DP Kovács, J Riebesell, XR Advincula, M Asta, M Avaylon, WJ Baldwin, F Berger, N Bernstein, A Bhowmik, F Bigi, SM Blau, V Cărare, M Ceriotti, S Chong, JP Darby, S De, F Della Pia, VL Deringer, R Elijošius, Z El-Machachi, E Fako, F Falcioni, AC Ferrari, JLA Gardner, MJ Gawkowski, A Genreith-Schriever, J George, REA Goodall, J Grandel, CP Grey, P Grigorev, S Han, W Handley, HH Heenen, K Hermansson, CH Ho, S Hofmann, C Holm, J Jaafar, KS Jakob, H Jung, V Kapil, AD Kaplan, N Karimitari, JR Kermode, P Kourtis, N Kroupa, J Kullgren, MC Kuner, D Kuryla, G Liepuoniute, C Lin, JT Margraf, I-B Magdău, A Michaelides, JH Moore, AA Naik, SP Niblett, SW Norwood, N O'Neill, C Ortner, KA Persson, K Reuter, AS Rosen, LAM Rosset, LL Schaaf, C Schran, BX Shi, E Sivonxay, TK Stenczel, C Sutton, V Svahn, TD Swinburne, J Tilly, C van der Oord, S Vargas, E Varga-Umbrich, T Vegge, M Vondrák, Y Wang, WC Witt, T Wolf, F Zills, G Csányi

The Journal of Chemical Physics

(2025)

163

184110

(doi: 10.1063/5.0297006)

Transient Au-Cl adlayers modulate the surface chemistry of gold nanoparticles during redox reactions.

SM Sibug-Torres, M Niihori, E Wyatt, R Arul, N Spiesshofer, T Jones, D Graham, B de Nijs, OA Scherman, RR Rao, MP Ryan, A Squires, CN Savory, DO Scanlon, A Daaoub, S Sangtarash, H Sadeghi, JJ Baumberg

Nature Chemistry

(2025)

(doi: 10.1038/s41557-025-01989-4)

The zinc finger domains of PARP-1 are selectively and potently inhibited by the Au(I)-based drugs sodium aurothiomalate and aurothioglucose

U Bashtanova, MJ Duer

FEBS Letters

(2025)

1873-3468.70224

(doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.70224)

Tuning the Circularly Polarized Reflection from Cholesteric Hydroxypropyl Cellulose Using Molecular Photoswitches

F Hassan, CLC Chan, TG Parton, Z Wang, Q Shen, R Li, B Frka-Petesic, RM Parker, S Vignolini

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

(2025)

e20839

(doi: 10.1002/anie.202520839)

Tuning the Circularly Polarized Reflection from Cholesteric Hydroxypropyl Cellulose Using Molecular Photoswitches

F Hassan, CLC Chan, TG Parton, Z Wang, Q Shen, R Li, B Frka‐Petesic, RM Parker, S Vignolini

Angewandte Chemie

(2025)

e20839

(doi: 10.1002/ange.202520839)

Correction to “Distance-Independent Efficiency of Triplet Energy Transfer from π‑Conjugated Organic Ligands to Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles”

L van Turnhout, DG Congrave, Z Yu, R Arul, SA Dowland, E Sebastian, Z Jiang, H Bronstein, A Rao

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2025)

147

43193

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.5c17601)

Design principles for air tolerance in pyridinium-based flow batteries

ME Carrington, E Jónsson, CP Grey

Advanced Materials

(2025)

e08875

(doi: 10.1002/adma.202508875)

Pore network tortuosity controls fast charging in supercapacitors

T Kress, X Liu, AC Forse

Nature materials

(2025)

(doi: 10.1038/s41563-025-02404-6)

Thermochromic hydrogel with high transmittance modulation and fast response for flexible smart windows

F Jiang, K Yu, R Kieffer, D de Jong, RM Parker, S Vignolini, M-E Aubin-Tam

Communications materials

(2025)

239

(doi: 10.1038/s43246-025-00956-3)

Reply to: On anisotropy in cubic Cu2O photoelectrodes

L Pan, L Dai, OJ Burton, L Chen, V Andrei, Y Zhang, D Ren, J Cheng, L Wu, K Frohna, A Abfalterer, TC-J Yang, W Niu, M Xia, S Hofmann, PJ Dyson, E Reisner, H Sirringhaus, J Luo, A Hagfeldt, M Grätzel, SD Stranks

Nature

(2025)

646

e26

(doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09629-0)

How many fluorophores are required to achieve AIE?

T Xiao, Z Huang, L Zhang, S Jin, X Chen, H Qian, G Wu, JA McCune, OA Scherman

Chem Sci

(2025)

22058

(doi: 10.1039/d5sc04053a)