The search for alternative plasmonic materials with improved optical properties, easier fabrication and integration capabilities over those of the traditional materials such as silver and gold could ultimately lead to real-life applications for plasmonics and metamaterials. In this work, we show that titanium nitride could perform as an alternative plasmonic material in the visible and near-inf...

– Microscopy observations show that suspensions of synthetic and natural nanolayered smectite clay particles submitted to a strong external electric field undergo a fast and extended structuring. This structuring results from the interaction between induced electric dipoles, and is only possible for particles with suitable polarization properties. Smectite clay colloids are observed to be parti...

Porous materials, in particular microporous zeolites, are the working horses industry mainly as catalysts, adsorbents or ion-exchangers. In order to further improve their performance and open new fields of application, one could take advantage a well on purpose designed hierarchical porous structures overcome, i.e., transport limitation into narrow, interconnected channels with special reactivi...

Open AccessCCS ChemistryRESEARCH ARTICLE1 Jul 2021Copper (I)–Organic Frameworks for Catalysis: Networking Metal Clusters with Dynamic Covalent Chemistry Rong-Jia Wei†, Hou-Gan Zhou†, Zhi-Yin Zhang, Guo-Hong Ning and Dan Li Wei† College of Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory Functional Supramolecular Coordination Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632 †R.-J. Wei H.-G...