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Small-pore hydridic frameworks store densely packed hydrogen

Nanoporous materials have attracted great attention for gas storage, but achieving high volumetric storage capacity remains a challenge. Here, by using neutron powder diffraction, volumetric gas adsorption, inelastic neutron scattering and first-principles calculations, we investigate a...
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Chiral Isochalcogenourea-Catalysed Enantioselective...

Allenoates are versatile building blocks which are primarily activated and controlled using chiral tert. phosphine and tert. amine Lewis bases. We herein report the first example of allenoate activation by using chiral isochalcogenoureas (IChU) for formal (4+2) cycloaddition reactions. Compared...
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Ionic Liquids for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries

Elucidating the Iron-Based Ionic Liquid [C4py][FeCl4]: Structural Insights and Potential for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries In this study, a low-melting organic-inorganic crystalline ionic liquid compound, N-butyl pyridinium tetrachlorido ferrate (III) is described. The material can...
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Non-identical moiré twins in bilayer graphene

The superlattice obtained by aligning a monolayer graphene and boron nitride (BN) inherits from the hexagonal lattice a sixty degrees periodicity with the layer alignment. It implies that, in principle, the properties of the hetero- structure must be identical for 0° and 60° of layer alignment....
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Simplified quantum chemistry methods to evaluate...

This review presents the theoretical background concerning simplified quantum chemistry (sQC) methods to compute non-linear optical (NLO) properties and their applications to large systems. To evaluate any NLO responses such as hyperpolarizabilities or two-photon absorption (2PA), one should...
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