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Symmetry breaking charge transfer leading to charge separation in a far-red absorbing bisstyryl-BODIPY dimer (open access)

Symmetry breaking charge transfer leading to charge separation in a far-red absorbing bisstyryl-BODIPY dimer

Article describes how symmetry breaking charge transfer is one of the important photo-events occurring in photosynthetic reaction centers that is responsible for initiating electron transfer leading to a long-lived charge-separated state and has been successfully employed in light-to-electricity converting optoelectronic devices. In this study, the authors report a newly synthesized, far-red absorbing and emitting BODIPY-dimer to undergo symmetry-breaking charge transfer leading to charge-separated states of appreciable lifetimes in polar solvents.
Date: December 15, 2023
Creator: Yahagh, Aida; Kaswan, Ram R.; Kazemi, Shahrzad; Karr, Paul A. & D'Souza, Francis
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Novel ppb-Level Sensitive and Highly Selective Europium-Based Diketone Luminescent Sensor for the Quantitative Detection of Aluminum Ions in Water Samples (open access)

A Novel ppb-Level Sensitive and Highly Selective Europium-Based Diketone Luminescent Sensor for the Quantitative Detection of Aluminum Ions in Water Samples

Article describes how a novel Eu(tta)3([4,4′-(t-bu)2-2,2′-bpy)] complex (tta-thenoyltrifluoroacetone), a ratiometric luminescent-based optical sensor for the quantitative determination of aluminum ion, is synthesized and characterized using XRD and 1H NMR. The sensor reported here is tested for 11 common cations and shows no interference on sensitivity. According to the authors, this is the first known Eu-based luminescence sensor that successfully exhibited the ability to detect aluminum ions in ppb levels in aqueous environments.
Date: November 6, 2023
Creator: Rajitha Perera, Nawagamu A. K.; Shankar, Sindhu K.; Archambault, Cynthia M.; Nesterov, Vladimir N.; Marpu, Sreekar; Yan, Hao et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A general large-scale synthesis approach for crystalline porous materials (open access)

A general large-scale synthesis approach for crystalline porous materials

Article describes how crystalline porous materials such as covalent organic frameworks (COFs) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous organic changes (POCs) have been widely applied in various fields with outstanding performances. In this work, the authors developed a general approach comprising high pressure homogenization (HPH), which can realize large-scale synthesis of crystalline porous materials including COFs, MOFs, and POCs under benign conditions.
Date: November 2, 2023
Creator: Liu, Xiongli; Wang, An; Wang, Chunping; Li, Jinli; Zhang, Zhiyuan; Al-Enizi, Abdullah M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving the Selectivity of the C-C Coupled Product Electrosynthesis by Using Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-An Enhanced Route from Phenol to Biphenol (open access)

Improving the Selectivity of the C-C Coupled Product Electrosynthesis by Using Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-An Enhanced Route from Phenol to Biphenol

Authors of the article describe how they developed a procedure for selective 2,4-dimethylphenol, DMPh, direct electro-oxidation to 3,3' ,5,5'-tetramethyl-2,2'-biphenol, TMBh, a C-C coupled product. The authors claim that the procedure is reasonably selective towards TMBh without requiring harmful additives or elevated temperatures.
Date: October 12, 2023
Creator: Sudagar, Alcina Johnson; Shao, Shuai; Żołek, Teresa; Maciejewska, Dorota; Asztemborska, Monika; Cieplak, Maciej et al.
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System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhanced Corrosion Resistance and Surface Wettability of PVDF/ZnO and PVDF/TiO2 Composite Coatings: A Comparative Study (open access)

Enhanced Corrosion Resistance and Surface Wettability of PVDF/ZnO and PVDF/TiO2 Composite Coatings: A Comparative Study

Article describes how this study aims to enhance the practical performance of PVDF/ZnO and PVDF/TiO2 composite coatings known for their distinctive properties. The coatings, applied through spray coating with PVDF and ZnO or TiO2 nanoparticles on glass, steel, and aluminum substrates, underwent a comprehensive evaluation.
Date: October 4, 2023
Creator: Mohamed, Adel M. A.; Alateyah, Abdulrahman I.; Hasan, Hosam; Matli, Penchal Reddy; El-Sayed Seleman, Mohamed M.; Ahmed, Essam et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Re-evaluation of rate constants for the reaction N2H4 (+ M) ⇄ NH2 + NH2 (+ M) (open access)

Re-evaluation of rate constants for the reaction N2H4 (+ M) ⇄ NH2 + NH2 (+ M)

Article describes how rate constants for the dissociation/recombination reaction N2H4 (+ M) ⇄ NH2 + NH2 (+ M) are determined by a combination of quantum-chemical calculations and statistical unimolecular rate theory. Implications of the present re-evaluated rate constants for the modeling of high temperature ammonia oxidation kinetics are discussed, showing an only small influence of their precise values on the overall properties of the process.
Date: October 4, 2023
Creator: Cobos, Carlos J.; Glarborg, Peter; Marshall, Paul & Troe, Jürgen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shared metadata for data-centric materials science (open access)

Shared metadata for data-centric materials science

Article describes how the expansive production of data in materials science, their widespread sharing and repurposing requires educated support and stewardship. The authors mainly focus on computational materials-science data and propose a constructive approach for the FAIRification of the (meta)data related to ground-state and excited-states calculations, potential-energy sampling, and generalized workflows.
Date: September 14, 2023
Creator: Ghiringhelli, Luca M.; Baldauf, Carsten; Bereau, Tristan; Brockhauser, Sandor; Carbogno, Chistian; Chamanara, Javad et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Functional Carbon Capsules Supporting Ruthenium Nanoclusters for Efficient Electrocatalytic 99TcO4-/ReO4 Removal from Acidic and Alkaline Nuclear Wastes (open access)

Functional Carbon Capsules Supporting Ruthenium Nanoclusters for Efficient Electrocatalytic 99TcO4-/ReO4 Removal from Acidic and Alkaline Nuclear Wastes

Article describes how the selective removal of the β-emitting pertechnetate ion (99TcO4−) from nuclear waste streams is technically challenging. In this article, a practical approach is proposed for the selective removal of 99TcO4− (or its surrogate ReO4−) under extreme conditions of high acidity, alkalinity, ionic strength, and radiation field.
Date: September 10, 2023
Creator: Liu, Xiaolu; Xie, Yinghui; Li, Yang; Hao, Mengjie; Chen, Zhongshan; Yang, Hui et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
First-principles property assessment of hybrid formate perovskites (open access)

First-principles property assessment of hybrid formate perovskites

Article discusses how hybrid organic–inorganic formate perovskites, AB(HCOO)3, are a large family of compounds that exhibit a variety of phase transitions and diverse properties, such as (anti)ferroelectricity, ferroelasticity, (anti)ferromagnetism, and multiferroism. While many properties of these materials have already been characterized, the authors seek to focus on the comprehensive property assessment of a large number of formate perovskites.
Date: August 17, 2023
Creator: Popoola, Abduljelili; Ghosh, P. S.; Kingsland, Maggie; Kashikar, Ravi; DeTellem, D.; Xu, Yixuan et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Incorporation of Chiral Frustrated Lewis Pair into Metal–Organic Framework with Tailored Microenvironment for Heterogeneous Enantio- and Chemoselective Hydrogenation (open access)

Incorporation of Chiral Frustrated Lewis Pair into Metal–Organic Framework with Tailored Microenvironment for Heterogeneous Enantio- and Chemoselective Hydrogenation

Article states that the development of efficient heterogeneous catalysts with multiselectivity (e.g., enantio- and chemoselectivity) has long been sought after but with limited progress being made so far. To achieve enantio- and chemoselectivity in a heterogeneous system, as inspired by enzymes, the authors illustrate herein an approach of creating an enzyme-mimic region (EMR) within the nanospace of a metal–organic framework (MOF) as exemplified in the context of incorporating a chiral frustrated Lewis pair (CFLP) into a MOF with a tailored pore environment.
Date: July 27, 2023
Creator: Zhang, Yin; Jiang, Yao; Nafady, Ayman; Tang, Zhiyong; Al-Enzini, Abdullah M.; Tan, Kui et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Large-Scale Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities (open access)

Large-Scale Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities

Article describes how connecting organic building blocks by covalent bonds to design porous crystalline networks has led to covalent organic frameworks (COFs), consequently transferring the flexibility of dynamic linkages from discrete architectures to extended structures. Authors state that this review article highlights the fundamental of COFs, including designing principles, coupling reactions, topologies, structural diversity, synthetic strategies, characterization, growth mechanism, and activation aspects of COFs.
Date: July 27, 2023
Creator: Vardhan, Harsh; Rummer, Grace; Deng, Angela & Ma, Shengqian
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Re-examination of the N2O+O reaction (open access)

Re-examination of the N2O+O reaction

This article is about how the reaction of N20 with O is a key step in consumption of nitrous oxide in thermal processes. In the present work ,the authors re-examined a wide range of experiments relevant for the N2O+O reaction through kinetic modeling, paying attention to the impact of artifacts such as impurities and surface reactions.
Date: July 27, 2023
Creator: Glarborg, Peter; Allingham, Johanne S.; Skov, Alexander B.; Hashemi, Hamid & Marshall, Paul
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioinspired Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles for the Remediation of Toxic Pollutants and Enhanced Antibacterial Activity (open access)

Bioinspired Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles for the Remediation of Toxic Pollutants and Enhanced Antibacterial Activity

Article asserts that this research presents a novel and environmentally friendly approach for the synthesis of multifunctional nanobiocomposites for the efficient removal of toxic heavy metal and dye, as well as the disinfection of wastewater microorganisms. The synthesized bioinspired nanocomposite KAC-CS-AgNPs could be an innovative solution for effective and sustainable wastewater treatment and has great potential for commercial applications.
Date: June 29, 2023
Creator: Mandal, Sujata; Hwang, Sangchul; Marpu, Sreekar B.; Omary, Mohammad A.; Prybutok, Victor R. & Shi, Sheldon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guanidinium-based covalent organic framework membrane for single-acid recovery (open access)

Guanidinium-based covalent organic framework membrane for single-acid recovery

Article discusses how, although acids are extensively used in contemporary industries, time-consuming and environmentally unfriendly processes hinder single-acid recovery from wastes containing various iconic species. The authors rationally designed a membrane with uniform angstrom-sized pore channels and built-in charge-assisted hydrogen bond donors that preferentially conducted HCl while exhibiting negligible conductance for other compounds.
Date: June 21, 2023
Creator: Meng, Qing-Wei; Wu, Shaochun; Liu, Mingjie; Guo, Qing; Xian, Weipeng; Zuo, Xiuhui et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental and Modeling Study of Water Time Histories during H2S-N2O Combustion in a Shock Tube (open access)

Experimental and Modeling Study of Water Time Histories during H2S-N2O Combustion in a Shock Tube

Article describes how, in the present study, the water formation was followed by laser absorption with N2O as an oxidant, instead of O2. Three H2S/N2O mixtures diluted in 98% Ar were studied to cover the following range of equivalence ratios: 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0, over a wide range of temperatures (1580–1940 K) around atmospheric pressure.
Date: June 7, 2023
Creator: Cooper, Sean P.; Marshall, Paul; Mathieu, Olivier; Pinzón, Laura T.; Mulvihill, Clayton R. & Glarborg, Peter
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reactions of hydrazine with the amidogen radical and atomic hydrogen (open access)

Reactions of hydrazine with the amidogen radical and atomic hydrogen

Article describes how the rate coefficient k1 for NH2 + N2H4 was measured to be (5.4 ± 0.4) × 10−14 cm3 molecule−1 s−1 at 296 K. The authors then describe how a combination of experiment and theory leads to a recommended rate coefficient for hydrogen abstraction of k1 = 6.3 × 10−23 T3.44 exp(+289 K/T) cm3 molecule−1 s−1.
Date: June 7, 2023
Creator: Gao, Yide; Alecu, I. M.; Hashemi, Hamid; Glarborg, Peter & Marshall, Paul
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Remarkable Difference in Pharmacokinetics of Fluorinated Versus Iodinated Photosensitizers Derived from Chlorophyll-a and a Direct Correlation between the Tumor Uptake and Anti-Cancer Activity (open access)

A Remarkable Difference in Pharmacokinetics of Fluorinated Versus Iodinated Photosensitizers Derived from Chlorophyll-a and a Direct Correlation between the Tumor Uptake and Anti-Cancer Activity

Article says that to investigate and compare the pharmacokinetic profile and anti-cancer activity of fluorinated and iodinated photosensitizers (PSs), the 3-(1′-(o-fluorobenzyloxy)ethyl pyropheophorbide and the corresponding meta-(m-) and para (p-) fluorinated analogs (methyl esters and carboxylic acids) were synthesized. According to the authors, the nature of the delivery vehicle and tumor types showed a significant difference in uptake and long-term cure by photodynamic therapy (PDT), especially in the iodinated PS.
Date: April 27, 2023
Creator: Pandurang, Taur Prakash; Cacaccio, Joseph; Durrani, Farukh A.; Dukh, Mykhaylo; Alsaleh, Ajyal Z.; Sajjad, Munawwar et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular Simulation Strategies for Understanding the Degradation Mechanisms of Acrylic Polymers (open access)

Molecular Simulation Strategies for Understanding the Degradation Mechanisms of Acrylic Polymers

Article describes how acrylic polymers, commonly used in paints, can degrade over time by several different chemical and physical mechanisms, depending on structure and exposure conditions. In this work, the authors studied the effects of different degradation mechanisms and agents on properties of acrylic polymers found in artists’ acrylic paints for the first time using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations.
Date: April 19, 2023
Creator: Iscen, Aysenur; Forero-Martinez, Nancy C.; Valsson, Omar & Kremer, Kurt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assembling Artificial Photosynthetic Models in Water Using β-Cyclodextrin-Conjugated Phthalocyanines as Building Blocks (open access)

Assembling Artificial Photosynthetic Models in Water Using β-Cyclodextrin-Conjugated Phthalocyanines as Building Blocks

Article describes how two water-soluble zinc(II) phthalocyanines substituted with two or four permethylated β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) moieties at the α positions have been utilized as building blocks for the construction of artificial photosynthetic models in water. The hydrophilic and bulky β-CD moieties not only can increase the water solubility of the phthalocyanine core and prevent its stacking in water but can also bind with a tetrasulfonated zinc(II) porphyrin (ZnTPPS) and/or sodium 2-anthraquinonesulfonate (AQ) in water through host–guest interactions.
Date: March 29, 2023
Creator: Chen, Xiao-Fei; Gobeze, Habtom B.; D'Souza, Francis & Ng, Dennis K. P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preferential Solvation Study of Rosuvastatin in the {PEG400 (1) + Water (2)} Cosolvent Mixture and GastroPlus Software-Based In Vivo Predictions (open access)

Preferential Solvation Study of Rosuvastatin in the {PEG400 (1) + Water (2)} Cosolvent Mixture and GastroPlus Software-Based In Vivo Predictions

Article claims that rosuvastatin (RST) is a poorly water-soluble drug responsible for limited in vivo dissolution and subsequently low oral systemic absorption (poor bioavailability). The results of inverse Kirkwood–Buff integrals showed the PS of RST by PEG400 as observed in all studied ratios of the binary mixture.
Date: March 28, 2023
Creator: Hussain, Afzal; Afzal, Obaid; Yasmin, Sabina; Haider, Nazima; Alfawaz Altamimi, Abdulmalik Saleh; Martínez, Fleming et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Probing High-Temperature Amine Chemistry: Is the Reaction NH3 + NH2 ⇄ N2H3 + H2 Important? (open access)

Probing High-Temperature Amine Chemistry: Is the Reaction NH3 + NH2 ⇄ N2H3 + H2 Important?

Article describes how the reaction NH3 + NH2 ⇄ N2H3 + H2 (R1) has been identified as a key step to explain experimental results for pyrolysis and oxidation of ammonia. In the present work, the reaction was studied by ab initio theory and by reinterpretation of experimental data.
Date: March 14, 2023
Creator: Marshall, Paul & Glarborg, Peter
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurement of the Intramolecular Hydrogen-Shift Rate Coefficient for the CH3SCH2OO Radical Between 314 and 433 K (open access)

Measurement of the Intramolecular Hydrogen-Shift Rate Coefficient for the CH3SCH2OO Radical Between 314 and 433 K

Article describes how the intramolecular hydrogen-shift rate coefficient of the CH3SCH2O2 (methylthiomethylperoxy, MSP) radical, a product formed in the oxidation of dimethyl sulfide (DMS), was measured using a pulsed laser photolysis flow tube reactor coupled to a high-resolution time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer that measured the formation of the DMS degradation end product HOOCH2SCHO. Measurements performed over the temperature range of 314–433 K yielded a hydrogen-shift rate coefficient of k1(T) = (2.39 ± 0.7) × 109 exp(−(7278 ± 99)/T) s–1 Arrhenius expression and a value extrapolated to 298 K of 0.06 s–1.
Date: March 2, 2023
Creator: Assaf, Emmanuel; Finewax, Zachary; Marshall, Paul; Veres, Patrick R.; Neuman, Andrew & Burkholder, James B. (James Bart), 1954-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tuning excited state electronic structure and charge transport in covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalytic performance (open access)

Tuning excited state electronic structure and charge transport in covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalytic performance

Article describes how covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent an emerging class of organic photocatalysts. The authors use reticular chemistry to construct a family of isoreticular crystalline hydrazide-based COF photocatalysts, with the optoelectronic properties and local pore characteristics of the COFs modulated using different linkers.
Date: February 27, 2023
Creator: Chen, Zhongshan; Wang, Jingyi; Hao, Mengjie; Xie, Yinghui; Liu, Xiaolu; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatially confined protein assembly in hierarchical mesoporous metal-organic framework (open access)

Spatially confined protein assembly in hierarchical mesoporous metal-organic framework

Article discusses how the immobilization of biomolecules into porous materials could lead to significantly enhanced performance in terms of stability towards harsh reaction conditions and easier separation for their reuse. To gain insights into the spatial arrangement of biomolecules within the nanopores, the authors used in situ small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) to probe deuterated green fluorescent protein (d-GFP) entrapped in a mesoporous MOF.
Date: February 21, 2023
Creator: Wang, Xiaoliang; He, Lilin; Sumner, Jacob; Qian, Shuo; Zhang, Qiu; O'Neill, Hugh et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library