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Volume 3 Issue 11, November 2019

Over the past decade, liquid-phase electron microscopy has revolutionized direct mechanistic studies of reactions in liquid media. Scanning electron microscopy and (scanning) transmission electron microscopy of liquid samples have enabled breakthroughs in nanoparticle chemistry, soft-matter science, catalysis, electrochemistry, battery research and biochemistry. See Kashin et al.

Image: Valentin Ananikov. Design: Carl Conway.

Volume 3 Issue 11

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Research Highlights

  • Thin films of hydrogenase enzymes dispersed in a redox-active gel effect rapid anodic oxidation of H2 even in the presence of O2.

    • David Schilter
    Research Highlight

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  • The ability of soft nanoparticles to shrink makes their diffusion in a confined environment faster than that of hard nanoparticles of the same size. The size reduction results from electrostatic interactions between the soft nanoparticle and medium and has important implications for their use as efficient drug carriers.

    • Gabriella Graziano
    Research Highlight

  • A 13-component molecular system can control two mechanistically distinct reactions in response to a single stimulus.

    • Stephen G. Davey
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Reviews

  • Liquid-phase electron microscopy is a powerful method for the direct, real-time monitoring of chemical processes on nanometre and micrometre scales. This Review describes the liquid-phase electron-microscopy techniques available to us and their application to studying chemical processes.

    • Alexey S. Kashin
    • Valentine P. Ananikov
    Review Article

  • CO2 reacts with alkanes over heterogeneous catalysts to give CO, H2O and the corresponding alkene. This Review describes catalytic bimetallics and their oxides, as well as experimental and theoretical studies of their mechanisms.

    • Elaine Gomez
    • Binhang Yan
    • Jingguang G. Chen
    Review Article

  • The propensity of guanine and its derivatives to assemble into guanine quartets makes them a privileged tool in the design of functional supramolecular assemblies. This Review describes the production of such functional suprastructures and their applications in nanotechnology, soft matter and chemical biology.

    • Loic Stefan
    • David Monchaud
    Review Article
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