The search for new materials is constantly ongoing. Recently, a two-dimensional carbon allotrope , γ-graphyne, has been synthesized with unified crystalline structure . Because of its low LUMO and excellent electron mobility, it appears to be promising acceptor photovoltaic applications. Here we report an analysis the electronic properties model van der Waals complexes γ-graphyne several partne...

The 1,3,5-triazine electron acceptor has become one of the most popular building blocks for design thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials. Many TADF strategies are first applied in compounds that contain triazines, and there numerous examples organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with triazine-containing emitters show high efficiencies long operating lifetimes. A comprehensiv...

The dissimilatory Fe(III) reducer, GS-15, is the first microorganism known to couple the oxidation of aromatic compounds to the reduction of Fe(III) and the first example of a pure culture of any kind known to anaerobically oxidize an aromatic hydrocarbon, toluene. In this study, the metabolism of toluene, phenol, and p-cresol by GS-15 was investigated in more detail. GS-15 grew in an anaerobic...

Two new donor-acceptor dyads with a particular electron-rich triarylamine (TAA) donor and the perchlorotriphenylmethyl radical acceptor (PCT) are probed for their propensity to equilibrate zwitterionic valence tautomers TAA+-PCT−. The UV/vis/NIR EPR spectroscopic profiles of oxidized reduced forms were recorded, but failed identify such isomers in neutral state. cations have an open-shell singl...

The pathway of electrons required for the reduction of sulfate in sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) is not yet fully characterized. In order to determine the role of a transmembrane protein complex suggested to be involved in this process, a deletion in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough was created by marker exchange mutagenesis that eliminated four genes putatively encoding the QmoABC complex...

The dissimilatory Fe(III) reducer, GS-15, is the first microorganism known to couple the oxidation of aromatic compounds to the reduction of Fe(III) and the first example of a pure culture of any kind known to anaerobically oxidize an aromatic hydrocarbon, toluene. In this study, the metabolism of toluene, phenol, and p-cresol by GS-15 was investigated in more detail. GS-15 grew in an anaerobic...

We provide a simple explanation for X-H bond contraction and the associated blue shift and decrease of intensity in IR spectrum of the so-called improper hydrogen bonds. This explanation organizes hydrogen bonds (HBs) with a seemingly random relationship between the X-H bond length (and IR frequency and its intensity) to its interaction energy. The factors which affect the X-H bond in all X-H.....