‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation (2020)
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Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2020). ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation. Endeavour, 44(4), Article 100750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2021.100750

Despite some scepticism, the suggestion by Hartung in 1976 that the report in the chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury corresponded to a meteorite impact with the moon in 1178, creating the Giordano Bruno crater, retains considerable support, particula... Read More about ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation.

Platinum(II) Complexes of Tridentate ‐Coordinating Ligands Based on Imides, Amides, and Hydrazides: Synthesis and Luminescence Properties (2020)
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Puttock, E. V., Sturala, J., Kistemaker, J. C., & Williams, J. G. (2021). Platinum(II) Complexes of Tridentate ‐Coordinating Ligands Based on Imides, Amides, and Hydrazides: Synthesis and Luminescence Properties. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2021(4), 335-347. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202000879

Five Pt(II) complexes are described in which the metal ion is bound to anionic urn:x-wiley:14341948:media:ejic202000879:ejic202000879-math-0003 ‐coordinating ligands. The central, deprotonated N atom is derived from an imide Ar−C(=O)−NH−C(=O)−Ar {PtL... Read More about Platinum(II) Complexes of Tridentate ‐Coordinating Ligands Based on Imides, Amides, and Hydrazides: Synthesis and Luminescence Properties.

Synthesis, Mesomorphism, Photophysics and Device Performance of Liquid-crystalline Pincer Complexes of Gold(III) (2020)
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Parker, R. R., Liu, D., Yu, X., Whitwood, A. C., Zhu, W., Williams, G., …Bruce, D. W. (2021). Synthesis, Mesomorphism, Photophysics and Device Performance of Liquid-crystalline Pincer Complexes of Gold(III). Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, https://doi.org/10.1039/d0tc04839a

Cyclophane Molecules Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Linking Donor Units to Influence Molecular Conformation (2020)
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Hempe, M., Harrison, A. K., Ward, J. S., Batsanov, A. S., Fox, M. A., Dias, F. B., & Bryce, M. R. (2021). Cyclophane Molecules Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Linking Donor Units to Influence Molecular Conformation. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86(1), 429-445. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c02174

The synthetic methodology to covalently link donors to form cyclophane-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules is presented. These are the first reported examples of TADF cyclophanes with “electronically innocent” bridges betw... Read More about Cyclophane Molecules Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Linking Donor Units to Influence Molecular Conformation.

Extended ligand conjugation and dinuclearity as a route to efficient platinum-based near-infrared (NIR) triplet emitters and solution-processed NIR-OLEDs (2020)
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Shafikov, M. Z., Pander, P., Zaytsev, A. V., Daniels, R., Martinscroft, R., Dias, F. B., …Kozhevnikov, V. N. (2021). Extended ligand conjugation and dinuclearity as a route to efficient platinum-based near-infrared (NIR) triplet emitters and solution-processed NIR-OLEDs. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 9(1), 127-135. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0tc04881j

Near infrared (NIR) emission from molecular materials is typically targeted by using more extended conjugated systems compared to visible-emitting materials. But efficiencies usually fall off due to the combined effects of increasing non-radiative an... Read More about Extended ligand conjugation and dinuclearity as a route to efficient platinum-based near-infrared (NIR) triplet emitters and solution-processed NIR-OLEDs.

Suppressing Dimer Formation by Increasing Conformational Freedom in Multi-Carbazole Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters (2020)
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Salah, L., Etherington, M., Shuaib, A., Danos, A., Nazeer, A., Ghazal, B., …Makhseed, S. (2021). Suppressing Dimer Formation by Increasing Conformational Freedom in Multi-Carbazole Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 9(1), 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0tc04222f

Ideal emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are capable of efficiently harvesting non-emissive triplet states, have high colour stabilities, and possess high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs). Maintaining colour stability and PLQY... Read More about Suppressing Dimer Formation by Increasing Conformational Freedom in Multi-Carbazole Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters.

Designing magnesium-selective ligands using coordination chemistry principles (2020)
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Walter, E. R., Hogg, C., Parker, D., & Gareth Williams, J. (2021). Designing magnesium-selective ligands using coordination chemistry principles. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 428, Article 213622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213622

Progress in the selective binding and detection of magnesium ions has been slower than other biologically important divalent metal ions like calcium and zinc. The most widely used ligands for Mg2+ are by no means optimal, as they are not selective fo... Read More about Designing magnesium-selective ligands using coordination chemistry principles.

Inelastic Scattering in Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging (2020)
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Mendis, B. G., Barthel, J., Findlay, S. D., & Allen, L. J. (2020). Inelastic Scattering in Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 26(6), 1147-1157. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1431927620024605

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and electron channeling contrast imaging (ECCI) are used to extract crystallographic information from bulk samples, such as their crystal structure and orientation as well as the presence of any dislocation and... Read More about Inelastic Scattering in Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging.

Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods (2020)
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Sivan, A. K., Galán-González, A., Di Mario, L., Tappy, N., Hernández-Ferrer, J., Catone, D., …Martelli, F. (2021). Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods. Nanoscale Advances, 3(1), 214-222. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0na00693a

The controlled modification of the electronic properties of ZnO nanorods via transition metal doping is reported. A series of ZnO nanorods were synthesized by chemical bath growth with varying Co content from 0 to 20 atomic% in the growth solution. O... Read More about Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods.

Resonance-enhanced charge delocalization in carbazole-oligoyne-oxadiazole conjugates (2020)
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Zieleniewska, A., Zhao, X., Bauroth, S., Wang, C., Batsanov, A., Calderson, C., …Guldi, D. (2020). Resonance-enhanced charge delocalization in carbazole-oligoyne-oxadiazole conjugates. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(44), 18769-18781. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c04003

There are notably few literature reports of electron donor-acceptor oligoynes although they offer unique opportunities for studying charge transport through ‘all-carbon’ molecular bridges. In this context, the current study focuses on a series of car... Read More about Resonance-enhanced charge delocalization in carbazole-oligoyne-oxadiazole conjugates.

Synthesis, structure, photophysical and chiroptical properties of dinuclear rhenium complexes with a bridging helicene‐bis‐bipyridine ligand (2020)
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Crassous, J., Saleh, N., Kundu, D., Vanthuyne, N., Olesiak, J., Pniakowska, A., …Autschbach, J. (2020). Synthesis, structure, photophysical and chiroptical properties of dinuclear rhenium complexes with a bridging helicene‐bis‐bipyridine ligand. ChemPlusChem, 85(11), 2446-2454. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202000559

By attaching pyridine groups to a diaza[6]helicene, a helical, bis‐ditopic, bis‐N^N‐coordinating ligand can be accessed. Dinuclear rhenium complexes featuring this bridging ligand, of the form [{Re(CO)3Cl}2(N^N–N^N)], have been prepared and resolved... Read More about Synthesis, structure, photophysical and chiroptical properties of dinuclear rhenium complexes with a bridging helicene‐bis‐bipyridine ligand.

Dual emission in purely organic materials for optoelectronic applications (2020)
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Kukhta, N. A., & Bryce, M. R. (2021). Dual emission in purely organic materials for optoelectronic applications. Materials Horizons, 8(1), 33-55. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0mh01316a

Purely organic molecules, which emit light by dual emissive (DE) pathways, have received increased attention in the last decade. These materials are now being utilized in practical optoelectronic, sensing and biomedical applications. In order to furt... Read More about Dual emission in purely organic materials for optoelectronic applications.

Benzannulation via the use of 1,2,4-triazines extends aromatic system of cyclometallated Pt(II) complexes to achieve candle light electroluminescence (2020)
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Pander, P., Turnbull, G., Zaytsev, A. V., Dias, F. B., & Kozhevnikov, V. N. (2021). Benzannulation via the use of 1,2,4-triazines extends aromatic system of cyclometallated Pt(II) complexes to achieve candle light electroluminescence. Dyes and Pigments, 184, Article 108857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2020.108857

This work describes an application of 1,2,4-triazine methodology for the synthesis of novel cyclometallated Pt (II) complexes of C^N type. It is shown that addition of a cyclopenteno unit into the complex structure not only facilitates the fabricatio... Read More about Benzannulation via the use of 1,2,4-triazines extends aromatic system of cyclometallated Pt(II) complexes to achieve candle light electroluminescence.

Electronic conductance and thermopower of single-molecule junctions of oligo(phenyleneethynylene) derivatives (2020)
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Dekkiche, H., Gemma, A., Tabatabaei, F., Batsanov, A. S., Niehaus, T., Gotsmann, B., & Bryce, M. R. (2020). Electronic conductance and thermopower of single-molecule junctions of oligo(phenyleneethynylene) derivatives. Nanoscale, 12(36), 18908-18917. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0nr04413j

We report the synthesis and the single-molecule transport properties of three new oligo(phenyleneethynylene) (OPE3) derivatives possessing terminal dihydrobenzo[b]thiophene (DHBT) anchoring groups and various core substituents (phenylene, 2,5-dimetho... Read More about Electronic conductance and thermopower of single-molecule junctions of oligo(phenyleneethynylene) derivatives.

Efficient UV Luminescence from Organic-Based Tamm Plasmon Structures Emitting in the Strong Coupling Regime (2020)
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Morozov, K. M., Ivanov, K. A., Belonovski, A. V., Girshova, E. I., Pereira, D. D. S., Menelaou, C., …Kaliteevski, M. A. (2020). Efficient UV Luminescence from Organic-Based Tamm Plasmon Structures Emitting in the Strong Coupling Regime. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124(39), 21656-21663. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c05091

Excitons in organic semiconductors possessing a large oscillator strength demonstrate strong coupling with cavity modes at room temperature. A large Stokes shift in some organic semiconductors enriches and complicates the picture of the emission in s... Read More about Efficient UV Luminescence from Organic-Based Tamm Plasmon Structures Emitting in the Strong Coupling Regime.

Enhanced lifetime of Organic Photovoltaic diodes achieved by blending with PMMA: Impact of morphology and Donor:Acceptor combination (2020)
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Nieto-Díaz, B. A., Pearson, C., Al-Busaidi, Z., Bowen, L., Petty, M. C., & Groves, C. (2021). Enhanced lifetime of Organic Photovoltaic diodes achieved by blending with PMMA: Impact of morphology and Donor:Acceptor combination. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 219, Article 110765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110765

In order to realise the potential of organic photovoltaic devices (OPVs) to provide cheap, scalable access to renewable energy, it is necessary to improve their lifetime and cost of encapsulation. The aim of this work is to achieve these aims by blen... Read More about Enhanced lifetime of Organic Photovoltaic diodes achieved by blending with PMMA: Impact of morphology and Donor:Acceptor combination.

The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W082) (2020)
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Gameson, R., Nicholson, C., & Beeby, A. (2020). The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W082). Gesta, 59(2), 203-231. https://doi.org/10.1086/710024

This article examines the nature and implications of the extensive Marian texts and imagery in the mid-fifteenth-century Parisian Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS W082), and reports the findings from scientific investigation of the i... Read More about The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W082).

Control of Porphyrin Planarity and Aggregation by Covalent Capping: Bissilyloxy Porphyrin Silanes (2020)
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Hussein, B., Shakeel, Z., Turley, A., Bismillah, A., Wolfstadt, K., Pia, J., …Adler, M. (2020). Control of Porphyrin Planarity and Aggregation by Covalent Capping: Bissilyloxy Porphyrin Silanes. Inorganic Chemistry, 59(18), 13533-13541. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01891

Porphyrins are cornerstone functional materials that are useful in a wide variety of settings, ranging from molecular electronics to biology and medicine. Their applications are often hindered, however, by poor solubilities that result from their ext... Read More about Control of Porphyrin Planarity and Aggregation by Covalent Capping: Bissilyloxy Porphyrin Silanes.

Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 3: deformation, wear and fracture (2020)
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Bucknall, C., Altstädt, V., Auhl, D., Buckley, P., Dijkstra, D., Galeski, A., …Wu, J. J. (2020). Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 3: deformation, wear and fracture. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 92(9), 1503-1519. https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0406

Three grades of polyethylene, with weight-average relative molar masses, ¯¯¯¯ M W , of approximately 0.6 × 106, 5 × 106, and 9 × 106, were supplied as compression mouldings by a leading manufacturer of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE... Read More about Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 3: deformation, wear and fracture.

Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 2: crystallinity and supra molecular structure (2020)
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Bucknall, C., Altstädt, V., Auhl, D., Buckley, P., Dijkstra, D., Galeski, A., …Wu, J. J. (2020). Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 2: crystallinity and supra molecular structure. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 92(9), 1485-1501. https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0403

Test methods including OM, SEM, TEM, DSC, SAXS, WAXS, and IR were used to characterise supra-molecular structure in three batches of polyethylene (PE), which had weight-average relative molar masses ¯¯¯¯ M w of approximately 0.6 × 106, 5 × 106, and 9... Read More about Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 2: crystallinity and supra molecular structure.