Excellent electrochemical and photovoltaic properties are exhibited by SnO2-based hybrid materials that are grown on carbon cloth

Heterojunction Nanostructures for Self-Powered UV Photodetectors

Double Donation at Work in “Carbones”
The carbon compounds "carbones", recently discovered, have now been shown to stabilize cations other than BH2+

Sonication-Induced Gelation
Self-assembly of functional dyes into extended gel nanostructures can be judiciously manipulated by the use of ultrasound

Superbulky Metallocenes
Surprising observations in the chemistry of lanthanide pentaarylcyclopentadienyl complexes

Nanotubes for Energy-Storage
Porous nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes with a high specific capacitance have potential for supercapacitors and lithium/sulfur batteries

Bond-Length Alternation in Overcrowded Borazines
X-ray crystallography and state-of-the art computations were applied to the question of bond-length alternation in overcrowded borazines

sp3-Carbon-Based Liquid Crystals
The liquid-crystalline phase of poly(ethylidene acetate) is described and explained by the formation of triple-helix aggregates

Hybrid Nanoscale Ligand
A new salen–C60 dyad forms complexes with transition metals, thereby tuning the optical, redox, and catalytic properties

Porous Organic Polymer Captures CO2
A moisture-stable porous organic polymer containing carboxy and triazole groups reversibly and selectively captures carbon dioxide

One-Pot Approach to α,β-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids
Carboxylation of alkynes with carbon dioxide in a one-pot approach could become a practical route to unsaturated carboxylic acids