Recent Publications from the Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Deletion of the moeA gene in Flavobacterium IR1 drives structural color shift from green to blue and alters polysaccharide metabolism.

Á Escobar Doncel, C Patinios, A Campos, MB Walter Costa, MV Turkina, M Murace, RHJ Staals, S Vignolini, BE Dutilh, CJ Ingham

(2026)

(doi: 10.7554/eLife.105029)

Influence of precursor type on NMC811 cathode material properties: insights from spray pyrolysis synthesis and in situ XRD analysis

M Almazrouei, F Sayed, D Hou, CP Grey, K Luo, S Hochgreb, M De Volder, A Boies

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

(2026)

(doi: 10.1039/d5ta08678g)

Comparative stability of the solid electrolyte interphase in potassium and sodium batteries

JF Schuster, L Anh, CA O’Keefe, CP Grey, R Younesi

Energy Advances

(2026)

(doi: 10.1039/d5ya00173k)

The Effect of [Fe(salen)]2-μ-oxo Catalyst Electronic Structure on Reductive Hydroamination

E Pocock, NJ Buxton, M Diefenbach, AD Bond, SE Lewis, V Krewald, RL Webster

Inorg Chem

(2025)

acs.inorgchem.5c05628

(doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c05628)

Compartmentalised Carbonylation Cascade Initiated by Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

S Mitra, DM Vahey, SA Bonke, E Reisner

(2025)

(doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-2s9d2)

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

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2025)

147

47036

(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)

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)

Inorganic pyrophosphate disrupts amorphous hydrated bone mineral interfaces in hypophosphatasia

S Dillon, A Armiger, A Murgoci, L Skingle, FGA Tabegna, S McDonald, S Mumm, MP Whyte, M Garton, KES Poole, MJ Duer

(2025)

(doi: 10.1101/2025.11.24.689921)

(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)

(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)

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

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

(2025)

129

21035

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

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

(2025)

e02653

(doi: 10.1002/chem.202502653)

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

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(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

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(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)

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 Lett

(2025)

599

3618

(doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.70224)

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)