Very honored! Thanks to @dreyfusfndn, @ChemistryUCR Dept, and my letter writers for their support. Above all, thanks to the members of my research group at UCR, whose creativity and determination have allowed us to advance this exciting new area of molecular silicon electronics!
Host–Guest Interactions Enhance Charge Transport across Single Cyclodextrin/Azobenzene Complex Junction | Journal of the American Chemical Society https://t.co/VUrwr556Rk
Putting PN cages in functional devices!
Check out Maryam's latest work @Wiley_Chemistry Advanced Functional Materials:
PN cage polymers for self-clearing, high-energy density capacitors that work well at high T! @chemistryatuvic
w/ Liu group @BerkeleyLab
https://t.co/RQ0h1mGYLQ
Aluminum: lightest p-block metal with very low electronegativity. Converting Al(III) to Al(I) in stoichiometric reactions is rare. But now, we've made Al redox catalysis a reality! Check it out @nature
https://t.co/T5SP88l7dg
Since my days as a graduate student, I have been interested in using carboranes as substituents on heteroatoms to tune electronics, similar to classical alkyl and aryl groups.
Over the years, our group and others have demonstrated that C-bound carboranes are actually strongly electron withdrawing, comparable to classical perfluoroarenes.
In our latest preprint (https://t.co/sRn2soPCm1), Vicki Rubio shows that this concept extends to the heavy pnictogens, revealing that carborane substitution allows for the construction of highly Lewis acidic Sb(V) centers. A special shout out goes to all coauthors and especially Osvaldo Gutierrez and his team for their contributions to the theoretical and computational aspects of this work.
Our work on an atomically precise PbSe nanocrystal has been published @J_A_C_S ! Congratulations to @fuyan_ma for achieving atomic precision in the PbSe nanocrystal and unveiling its structure with unprecedented resolution!
https://t.co/acQGOH9kqy
@J_A_C_S Congrats to Lan, Matt, Grace, Ashley, and Lamia! Want to highlight here that Grace, an undergrad @UCRiverside, did the heavy lifting on revisions while Lan was on internship. Grace is applying for grad school this year and any program would be lucky to have her!
Can redox active, Lewis acidic magnesium Pac-man complexes form stable "adducts" with alkanes? Jeremy, Matt, Joe and co’s latest pre-print @ChemRxiv says ”Hell Yeah”! Alkane C-H activation by a main group metal incoming? https://t.co/Wp8w0yKJgp #ozchem@ChemistryMonash@AFOSR
How to obtain X-ray structural data of inherently amorphous compounds? Check-out the latest work by Yaofeng published in @NatureComms in the framework of @for2824@dfg_public: https://t.co/lvjngWhR40