Journal of the American Chemical Society

The incorporation of synthetic polymers into biomolecular materials provides a powerful strategy to enhance their properties. We recently showed that the interstitial spaces of highly solvated mesoporous ferritin crystals could be infiltrated with acrylate (Ac) and acrylamide (Am) monomers, which are subsequently polymerized <i>in crystallo</i> to yield a new class of hybrid materials termed Poly…

Replication fork reversal (RFR) is a crucial DNA damage tolerance mechanism that protects genome stability by remodeling DNA fork structures. The helicase-like transcription factor (HLTF) is one of the key components in the RFR process and is responsible for the conversion of a stalled replication fork into a four-way reversed fork, mediated by its ATPase activity. In contrast to a wealth of bioc…

Persistent radicals, species with unpaired electrons, are pivotal for advanced optical and electrical applications but are challenging to stabilize. Herein, we report a melt-quenching vitrification strategy that stabilizes persistent organic radicals within chiral zero-dimensional hybrid zinc chloride glasses, overcoming their intrinsic instability. These radicals are generated via deprotonation-…

Soft materials with ordered structures have attracted much attention due to their potential applications, such as flexible electronics, optical devices, and sensor materials. In particular, organic crystals that exhibit elastic and plastic deformation, as well as self-healing capability, are attractive owing to their shape adaptability and low cost. Although reversible photoinduced modulation of …

Silsesquioxanes as versatile organic-inorganic hybrids with terminal siloxyl sites have been utilized to construct diverse metallasilsesquioxane complexes, yet their niche in silver nanoclusters remains largely unexplored. Herein, we report the first silsesquioxane-protected superatomic silver nanocluster, [Ag₄₀(Ph₄Si₄O₈)₆(^<i>t</i>…

In gas-involving (photo)electrochemical systems, nanoscale bubbles generate and enrich near the electrode-liquid interface, influencing interfacial transport and reactivity. However, it remains unclear how the solid-liquid interfacial microenvironment governs nanobubble evolution at the microscopic level. In this work, we perform deep potential molecular dynamics simulations with enhanced-samplin…

Nanosized cerium oxide (CeO₂) has been extensively used as the oxygen storage component in automotive emission control systems. However, the possible influence of atomically dispersed Ce in these catalysts has not been recognized. Here, we demonstrate the controllable transformation of ceria nanoparticles into isolated cerium cations on γ-Al₂O₃ via reductive atom …