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Probing dynamic oxygen exchange for hydrogen production with operando neutron diffraction (2025)
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Telford, D. M., Martínez Martín, A., Guy, M. D., Henry, P. F., Jones, M. O., Hu, W., Metcalfe, I. S., & Evans, J. S. O. (online). Probing dynamic oxygen exchange for hydrogen production with operando neutron diffraction. Nature Chemical Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44286-025-00231-9

A chemical looping process exploiting the variable oxygen content of ABO3−δ perovskite materials can achieve super-equilibrium conversions of societally important reactions such as the water–gas shift reaction (CO + H2O ⇋ CO2 + H2). The approach reli... Read More about Probing dynamic oxygen exchange for hydrogen production with operando neutron diffraction.

Exploitation of pseudo-symmetry in the Cambridge Structural Database for molecular ferroelectric discovery (2025)
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Thompson, S. Y., Stokes, H. T., Campbell, B. J., Goldberg, E. D., & Evans, J. S. O. (online). Exploitation of pseudo-symmetry in the Cambridge Structural Database for molecular ferroelectric discovery. CrystEngComm, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ce00445d

The search for new useful molecular ferroelectrics is a non-trivial problem. We present the application of an automated symmetry-searching method (FERROSCOPE) to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) in order to identify polar structures with a clo... Read More about Exploitation of pseudo-symmetry in the Cambridge Structural Database for molecular ferroelectric discovery.

Synthetic Retinoids for the Modulation of Genomic and Nongenomic Processes in Neurodegenerative Diseases (2025)
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Butler, A. M., Chisholm, D. R., Tomlinson, C. W., Khatib, T., Clark, J., Wan, S., Coveney, P. V., Greig, I. R., McCaffery, P., Pohl, E., & Whiting, A. (online). Synthetic Retinoids for the Modulation of Genomic and Nongenomic Processes in Neurodegenerative Diseases. ACS Omega, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.5c00934

Retinoids, such as all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), are the active metabolite forms of endogenous Vitamin A and function as key signaling molecules involved in the regulation of a variety of cellular processes. Due to their highly diverse biological r... Read More about Synthetic Retinoids for the Modulation of Genomic and Nongenomic Processes in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

An unexpected chlorination of an organic sunscreen (2025)
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Smith, L. G., Di Leva, D., Shaw, L. A., Hughes, E., Kenwright, A. M., Beeby, A., Wilson, M. R., & Mahon, C. S. (online). An unexpected chlorination of an organic sunscreen. Chemical Communications, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cc01593f

The origin of intense red staining on fabrics contaminated by sunscreen and treated with bleach has been attributed to an unexpected dichlorination of a common UV filter. The structure of the chromophore has been determined by NMR spectroscopy, and t... Read More about An unexpected chlorination of an organic sunscreen.

A “waste” of time?: the synthesis of a magnesium-substituted aluminophosphate from an unconventional source of magnesium (2025)
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Crockett, C. H., Bedward, J. R., Clayton, P. K., Evans, J. S. O., Greenwell, H. C., & Taylor, R. A. (online). A “waste” of time?: the synthesis of a magnesium-substituted aluminophosphate from an unconventional source of magnesium. Dalton Transactions, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5dt00694e

Magnesium-substituted microporous aluminophosphates (MgAlPOs) are tuneable framework materials that exhibit strong Brønsted acidity and have found great utility as catalysts for a wide variety of green transformations. Typically, refined magnesium sa... Read More about A “waste” of time?: the synthesis of a magnesium-substituted aluminophosphate from an unconventional source of magnesium.

A review of the foliar application of individual amino acids as biostimulants in plants (2025)
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Henderson, B. C. R., Sanderson, J. M., & Fowles, A. (2025). A review of the foliar application of individual amino acids as biostimulants in plants. Discover Agriculture, 3(1), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44279-025-00222-7

Enhancing crop yields in an environmentally sustainable manner is crucial in the agricultural sector, given the challenges posed by population growth, climate change, and the need to reduce pesticide usage. Biostimulants, such as amino acids, offer n... Read More about A review of the foliar application of individual amino acids as biostimulants in plants.

The Influence of Water Molecules on the π* Shape Resonances of the Thymine Anion. (2025)
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Clarke, C. J., Burrow, E. M., & Verlet, J. R. R. (online). The Influence of Water Molecules on the π* Shape Resonances of the Thymine Anion. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.5c01948

Low-energy electrons have been shown to resonantly attach to DNA, inducing strand breakages and other damaging lesions. While computational studies have suggested that the nucleobase moieties can serve as the initial attachment site, there remains am... Read More about The Influence of Water Molecules on the π* Shape Resonances of the Thymine Anion..

Simple Quantification of Sticking Propensities of Pharmaceuticals with Mechanochemistry. (2025)
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Brocca, M., Blade, H., Nilsson Lill, S. O., & Cruz-Cabeza, A. J. (2025). Simple Quantification of Sticking Propensities of Pharmaceuticals with Mechanochemistry. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 22(6), 3219–3230. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5c00124

Punch sticking poses significant challenges in tablet manufacturing and the need for effective solutions is ever-growing. Direct sticking assessment methods often rely on bulky, material-consuming equipment such as compactor emulators, only available... Read More about Simple Quantification of Sticking Propensities of Pharmaceuticals with Mechanochemistry..

Nonequilibrium relaxation exponentially delays the onset of quantum diffusion. (2025)
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Bhattacharyya, S., Sayer, T., & Montoya-Castillo, A. (2025). Nonequilibrium relaxation exponentially delays the onset of quantum diffusion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(19), Article e2424582122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2424582122

Predicting the exact many-body quantum dynamics of polarons in materials with strong carrier-phonon interactions presents a fundamental challenge, often necessitating one to adopt approximations that sacrifice the ability to predict the transition fr... Read More about Nonequilibrium relaxation exponentially delays the onset of quantum diffusion..

Average and Local Structure of La 1– x Sr x Fe 1– y Mn y O 3−δ Chemical Looping Oxygen Carrier Materials (2025)
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Telford, D., Hu, W., Metcalfe, I. S., Jones, M. O., Henry, P. F., & Evans, J. S. O. (2025). Average and Local Structure of La 1– x Sr x Fe 1– y Mn y O 3−δ Chemical Looping Oxygen Carrier Materials. Chemistry of Materials, 37(9), 3471-3482. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00388

Nonstoichiometric mixed-metal oxides in the La1–x Sr x Fe1–y Mn y O3 –δ family are promising oxygen carrier materials for chemical looping processes, including clean hydrogen production from the water-gas shift reaction. The crystal structure variati... Read More about Average and Local Structure of La 1– x Sr x Fe 1– y Mn y O 3−δ Chemical Looping Oxygen Carrier Materials.