"Ammonia monooxygenase: a work in progress" by Kyle Lancaster et al. doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...

"Decoding the tactics for coacervate pedestrian crossing the phospholipid membrane" by Yan Qiao et al. doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...

"Recent advances on low-temperature ceramic fuel cells: Material design and applications" by Yu Shen and Tianmin He et al. doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...

"Porous organic polymers based on carbon-carbon coupling reaction: synthesis and applications" by Dongtao Liu and Guangshan Zhu et al. doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...

🤠 ChemSci Review Round-up!
Browse the new Reviews in Chemical Science this week.
*porous organic polymers
*ceramic fuel cells
*coacervates crossing the phospholipid membrane
*ammonia monooxygenase

And read all our recent Reviews and Perspectives here: pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...

"Delicate Molecular Design, Self-Assembly and Functional Applications of Chiral Cyclophanes" by Lijin Xu and Guanghui Ouyang et al. doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

"Spinel integrated layered oxide cathodes for sodium-ion batteries: suppressing phase transitions, enhancing air stability, and accelerating Na+ transport" by Yan-Jiang Li, Yan-Fang Zhu and Yao Xiao et al. doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...

"Why and when does lattice oxygen participate in oxygen evolution?" by Arun Karmakar, Asha Satheesan and Subrata Kundu. doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...

"Dynamic covalent organic frameworks" by Ling Zhang and Florian Auras. doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

"From light loss to light harvesting: anti-reflective coatings bridging optics, materials, and performance in perovskite solar cells" by Giulia Grancini et al. doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

🤠 ChemSci Review Round-up!
Browse the new Reviews in Chemical Science this week.
*anti-reflective coatings for perovskite solar cells
*dynamic COFs
*the role of lattice oxygen in the OER
*spinel integrated layered oxide cathodes for sodium-ion batteries
*chiral cyclophanes

If you're interested in these topics, we have some of our top papers from 2025 that you can browse here:

Our top energy conversion papers👉 rsc.li/409p6kx

And our top photochemistry papers👉 rsc.li/4roaCZv

I'm attending #MATSUS2026 on behalf of @chemicalscience.rsc.org. A great keynote talk on upconversion and downconversion in modified and extended acenes from our Associate Editor Dirk Guldi, who also mentioned our energy conversion collection at the end of his keynote talk!

"Recent advances in small-molecule fluorescent probes for simultaneous dual detection of HClO/ClO− and analytes/microenvironment" by Yongqing Zhou and Juyoung Yoon et al. pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5S...
#fluorescence #probes

"Architecting NIR-II metal supramolecular dyes - Illuminating the path to precision medicine" by Xiaoxing Xiong, Youjia Tang, and Yao Sun et al. pubs.rsc.org/doi/D6S...
#dye #supramolecular

"Controlling the fate of two triplet states: solid-state annihilator design for photon upconversion" by Jussi Isokuortti and Lea Nienhaus. pubs.rsc.org/doi/D6S...
#photon #upconversion

"Deep excitation afterglow luminescent probes for biomedical applications" by Yuxia Liu, Pu Chen, Jonathan Sessler, Bo Tang, Tony D. James and Guang Chen et al. pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5S...
#luminescence #imaging

🤠 ChemSci Review Round-up!
Browse the new Reviews in Chemical Science this week. Lots of #analyticalchemistry this week!
*afterglow luminescent probes
*metal supramolecular dyes
*solid-state annihilators for photon upconversion
*fluorescent probes for dual detection of HClO/ClO− and analytes

New Reviews in Chemical Science this week! 👇
* Perovskite nanocrystals
* Flexoelectric catalysis
* Tandem photovoltaics
* Thermoelectric materials
* Synthesis of higher order stereocenters.

🤠 ChemSci Review Round-up!
Browse the new Reviews in Chemical Science this week.

And read all our recent Reviews and Perspectives here: pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...

A personal shout-out from me for this excellent cover image! I love that it represents the first author of the paper with his large and loving family. 😍

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See the most impactful papers in Chemical Science in your topic area from last year in our subject-specific collections below! 👇

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Our new Reflections series celebrates our 15th anniversary and some of the earliest manuscripts published in Chemical Science, with leading authors giving a perspective on how the field has changed in the years since.

Explore the Reflection pieces, for free, here:
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Diagram showing the structure of ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) from Nitrosospira briensis. The left panel depicts the enzyme in native membranes with three labeled copper-binding sites: CuB (periplasmic), CuC, and CuD (transmembrane), and a lipid molecule positioned between CuC and CuD. The right panel zooms in on the AMO active site, highlighting the CuC and CuD sites separated by approximately 8.0 Å, with the lipid molecule spanning between them. Copper ions are shown as cyan spheres, and the lipid is illustrated in pink.

This week's Chemical Science Pick of the Week #ChemSciPicks is from Professor Amy C. Rosenzweig (Northwestern University): "Simultaneous occupancy of CuC and CuD in the ammonia monooxygenase active site"

Read for free at: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

🎄On the 11th day of Christmas, Hai-Yan Hu, Yan-Fang Zhu, and Yao Zhao et al. gave to us, a paper on sodium!

“Periodic Law-Guided Design of Highly Stable O3-Type Layered Oxide Cathodes for Practical Sodium-Ion Batteries”

Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D4SC...

🎄On the 10th day of Christmas, Erwin Reisner et al. gave to us, a paper on gases and light!

“Adapting gas fermenting bacteria for light-driven domino valorization of CO2”

Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Cover image from Véronique Michelet et al., Chem. Sci., 2025,16, 17611-17620, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SC05338B

HNY from Chemical Science! We wish you all a successful and peaceful 2026!

Thank you to all of our readers, authors, and reviewers for making 2025 a huge success! We were delighted by the excellent papers in our 15th anniversary collections and we're excited for 2026!

#ChemSky #HNY #2026

🎄On the 9th day of Christmas, Yoichi Kobayashi et al. gave to us, a paper on fluorine!

“Photocatalytic defluorination of perfluoroalkyl substances by surface-engineered ZnO nanocrystals”

Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

🎄On the 8th day of Christmas, Kazunari Domen et al. gave to us, a paper on oxygen!

“Z-scheme overall water splitting on photocatalyst sheet mediated by carbon nanotubes using oxysulfide photocatalyst responsive to long wavelengths”

Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

🎄On the 7th day of Christmas, Anindita Das et al. gave to us, a paper on N!

“Crystallization-driven 2D assemblies from a phenothiazine-conjugated poly(l-lactide): redox-responsive tunable emission, white-light harvesting and surface-enabled NP decoration”

Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...