Hydrogels and hydrogel-derived materials for energy and water sustainability

Y Guo, J Bae, Z Fang, P Li, F Zhao, G Yu - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Energy and water are of fundamental importance for our modern society, and advanced
technologies on sustainable energy storage and conversion as well as water resource …

ZnIn2S4‐Based Photocatalysts for Energy and Environmental Applications

R Yang, L Mei, Y Fan, Q Zhang, R Zhu, R Amal… - Small …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As a fascinating visible‐light‐responsive photocatalyst, zinc indium sulfide (ZnIn2S4) has
attracted extensive interdisciplinary interest and is expected to become a new research …

Crystallization in confinement

FC Meldrum, C O'Shaughnessy - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many crystallization processes of great importance, including frost heave, biomineralization,
the synthesis of nanomaterials, and scale formation, occur in small volumes rather than bulk …

Control over differentiation of a metastable supramolecular assembly in one and two dimensions

T Fukui, S Kawai, S Fujinuma, Y Matsushita… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Molecular self-assembly under kinetic control is expected to yield nanostructures that are
inaccessible through the spontaneous thermodynamic process. Moreover, time-dependent …

Functional π-gelators and their applications

SS Babu, VK Praveen, A Ajayaghosh - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular chemistry originally defined by Lehn as “chemistry beyond molecules”
exploits noncovalent interactions between molecules to form 1D, 2D, and 3D …

Templated synthesis for nanoarchitectured porous materials

V Malgras, Q Ji, Y Kamachi, T Mori… - Bulletin of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Templated Synthesis for Nanoarchitectured Porous Materials | Bulletin of the Chemical Society
of Japan | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement Oxford Academic Journals …

Ionic liquid gel materials: applications in green and sustainable chemistry

PC Marr, AC Marr - Green Chemistry, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquid gel materials offer a way to further utilise ionic liquids in technological
applications. Combining the controlled and directed assembly of gels, with the diverse …

Soft-nanocomposites of nanoparticles and nanocarbons with supramolecular and polymer gels and their applications

S Bhattacharya, SK Samanta - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Gel-nanocomposites are rapidly emerging functional advanced materials having
widespread applications in materials and biological sciences. Herein, we review syntheses …

Supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly in organic materials design

SI Stupp, LC Palmer - Chemistry of Materials, 2014 - ACS Publications
Organic materials naturally lend themselves to the crafting of structure and function using the
strategies of self-assembly and supramolecular chemistry employed so effectively by …

Applications of advanced hybrid organic–inorganic nanomaterials: from laboratory to market

C Sanchez, P Belleville, M Popall… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Today cross-cutting approaches, where molecular engineering and clever processing are
synergistically coupled, allow the chemist to tailor complex hybrid systems of various shapes …