Do diradicals behave like radicals?

T Stuyver, B Chen, T Zeng, P Geerlings… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
This review sets out to understand the reactivity of diradicals and how that may differ from
monoradicals. In the first part of the review, we delineate the electronic structure of a …

Simultaneous nanocatalytic surface activation of pollutants and oxidants for highly efficient water decontamination

YJ Zhang, GX Huang, LR Winter, JJ Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Removal of organic micropollutants from water through advanced oxidation processes
(AOPs) is hampered by the excessive input of energy and/or chemicals as well as the large …

Highly efficient photothermal nanoagent achieved by harvesting energy via excited-state intramolecular motion within nanoparticles

Z Zhao, C Chen, W Wu, F Wang, L Du, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The exciting applications of molecular motion are still limited and are in urgent pursuit,
although some fascinating concepts such as molecular motors and molecular machines …

Ultralong UV/mechano-excited room temperature phosphorescence from purely organic cluster excitons

X Zhang, L Du, W Zhao, Z Zhao, Y Xiong, X He… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Purely organic room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) has attracted wide attention
recently due to its various application potentials. However, ultralong RTP (URTP) with high …

Killing G (+) or G (−) bacteria? The important role of molecular charge in AIE‐active photosensitizers

X Shi, SHP Sung, JHC Chau, Y Li, Z Liu… - Small …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial infections pose a serious threat to human health. Photodynamic therapy is an
effective medical treatment to solve the problems raised by antibiotic resistant bacteria. But it …

Deciphering the working mechanism of aggregation-induced emission of tetraphenylethylene derivatives by ultrafast spectroscopy

Y Cai, L Du, K Samedov, X Gu, F Qi, HHY Sung… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) is the long-sought solution to the problem of
aggregation-caused quenching that has hampered efficient application of fluorescent …

Interpreting the enhanced photoactivities of 0D/1D heterojunctions of CdS quantum dots/TiO2 nanotube arrays using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy

Z Yan, W Wang, L Du, J Zhu, DL Phillips, J Xu - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Heterojunctions of CdS quantum dots (QDs)/TiO 2 nanotube arrays (NTAs) were
synthesized via a simple vapor transport approach. The 0D/1D QDs/NTAs electrodes …

Non-aromatic annulene-based aggregation-induced emission system via aromaticity reversal process

Z Zhao, X Zheng, L Du, Y Xiong, W He, X Gao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) is a photophysical phenomenon correlated closely with
the excited-state intramolecular motions. Although AIE has attracted increasing attention due …

Dynamics of oxygen-independent photocleavage of blebbistatin as a one-photon blue or two-photon near-infrared light-gated hydroxyl radical photocage

MD Li, NK Wong, J Xiao, R Zhu, L Wu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Development of versatile, chemically tunable photocages for photoactivated chemotherapy
(PACT) represents an excellent opportunity to address the technical drawbacks of …

Principal interacting spin orbital: understanding the fragment interactions in open-shell systems

FK Sheong, JX Zhang, Z Lin - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to the recent rise in the interest and research efforts on first-row transition metal
catalysis and other radical-related reactions, open-shell systems play a much more …