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We normally think of scintillators as materials which produce light, but what if light could also be used to produce these materials?
![Bubbling a flue gas simulant through an aqueous solution of a simple bis-iminoguanidine (GBIG) leads to CO2 capture as a crystalline bicarbonate salt. The X-ray crystal structure revealed the formation of (HCO3–)2 dimers in the crystals, linked by water molecules into ladder-shaped clusters. Mild heating of the crystals releases the CO2 and regenerates the GBIG sorbent quantitatively so it can be recycled.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-07/Picture7.png?h=66efc1cb&itok=xNeFimH1)
Energy-efficient CO2 capture from a flue gas simulant is demonstrated via crystallization of structurally unique bicarbonate-water clusters with an aqueous guanidine sorbent.
![(a) Schematic of prediction of CO2 adsorption of porous carbon.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-07/Picture8.png?h=f82ca2b6&itok=7gCTRpm_)
A new method was developed for the discovery of fundamental descriptors for gas adsorption through deep learning neural network (DNN) approach. This approach has great potential to identify structural parameters for gas adsorption.
![Synthetic pathway of the pyrylium- and phosphabenzene-functionalized polymers and structures of the monomers](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-07/Picture9.png?h=fa08fd4d&itok=Vgdyc15k)
A two‐step topotactic pathway for the preparation of phosphabenzene‐based porous organic polymers (POPs) under metal‐free conditions was achieved without the use of unstable phosphorus‐based monomers.
![(a) Cartoon of di(2-ethylhexyl) phosphoric acid (DEHPA) ligands assembled into an aggregate by Co2+ ions and water being probed by intense laser pulses to selectively report on the buried liquid/liquid interface in situ. The assembly kinetics (b) and quantities related to the surface potential are mapped in time with vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy (vSFG) for the first time to show how the interface transforms during an extraction to form micellar structures found in the bulk.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-07/Picture10.png?h=51da842a&itok=LN_ETup2)
The elusive interfacial chemistry underlying solvent extraction has been mapped in real time using nonlinear laser spectroscopy
![Persistent formation of C4P-Cs+-phenolate complexes corroborated by AIMD simulations. H-bonding parameters (θ, d) signify higher degree of structural disorder for a smaller Na+ cation.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-07/Picture11.png?h=6a8cda3b&itok=iLUTBwEY)
By combining the classic anion receptor calix[4]pyrrole (C4P) and a phenolic ligand, a remarkable enhancement in selectivity was found for Cs+ over Na+, which was confirmed by crystal structures and ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD), which sh
![A strategy to design SMSI via a reverse route was developed, which is in favor of metal site exposure for selective hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-07/Picture12.png?h=6c7718af&itok=RkIjTnqD)
A new strategy to design strong metal-support interaction via a reverse route (SMSIR) is reported by starting from the final fully encapsulation, core-shell structure and treating it to obtain an intermediate state with favorable exposure of metal sites
The element lithium has all kinds of uses on Earth: in lithium-ion batteries, in heat-resistant glass and ceramics, and in certain medications that psychiatrists prescribe.
We developed a new method, named subspace-projected coupled-cluster, that approximates ab-initio computations of nuclei.