Abstract Intercalation materials are promising candidates for reversible energy storage and are, example, used as lithium-battery electrodes, hydrogen-storage compounds, electrochromic materials. An important issue preventing the more widespread use of these is that they undergo structural transformations (of up to ∼10% lattice strains) during intercalation, which expand material, nucleate micr...

Layered compounds are nanostructured, intrinsically anisotropic materials which often undergo intercalation reactions producing host– guest complexes. In this work examples from the molybdenum disulfide chemistry are used for discussing how the properties of the products may be regulated by appropriate selection of the guests species used for functionalizing the pristine sulfide. Special attent...

At submicromolar concentrations two novel phenanthridine biguanides exhibit distinctly different spectroscopic signals for dGdC and dAdT sequences, respectively, by opposite fluorimetric changes (quenching for dGdC and increase for dAdT) and especially the bis-biguanide derivative gives an opposite ICD response (negative ICD for dGC and strong positive for dAdT). This specific signalling was ex...

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is an insulating compound that is structurally similar to graphite. Like graphene, single sheets of BN are atomically flat, and they are of current interest in few-layer hybrid devices, such as transistors and capacitors, that contain insulating components. While graphite and other layered compounds can be intercalated by redox reactions and then converted chemica...

The d-electron localization is widely recognized as important to transport properties of transition metal compounds, but its role in the energy conversion of intercalation reactions of cathode compounds is still not fully explored. In this work, the correlation of intercalation potential with electron affinity, a key energy term controlling electron intercalation, then with d-electron configura...

Binuclear polypyridine ruthenium compounds have been shown to slowly intercalate into DNA, following a fast initial binding on the DNA surface. For these compounds, intercalation requires threading of a bulky substituent, containing one Ru(II), through the DNA base-pair stack, and the accompanying DNA duplex distortions are much more severe than with intercalation of mononuclear compounds. Stru...

A Monte Carlo simulation of a two-dimensional lattice gas with free boundaries is used to study the effects of surface and size on the chemical potential-composition curves of intercalation compounds. In particular we are interested in electrochemically active nanosize lithium intercalation compounds. Both surface and size effects were found to modify the chemical potential versus composition b...