Dec. 05, 2023 Weekly-ish Literature Digest

As I start to compile these, I get a little self-conscious about how the date distribution works. I think a lot of the time it corresponds to “release dates” of journal ASAPs or Issues, but maybe it’s really a window into my daily mood?

Anyway, there’s some neat colors and 3D printing in this week’s digest. Maybe someday I’ll take the time to give my opinions on all the articles I share. I think the first priority is to get the thumbnails going, but I’m afraid it’s going to be tedious.

Sorry, enough with the monologue. In the words of Stephen A. Smith: “TAke a look, y’all”:


Structural Color from Cellulose Nanocrystals or Chitin Nanocrystals: Self-Assembly, Optics, and Applications

Nov 28, 2023 – by Bruno Frka-Petesic, Thomas G. Parton, Camila Honorato-Rios, Aurimas Narkevicius, Kevin Ballu, Qingchen Shen, Zihao Lu, Yu Ogawa, Johannes S. Haataja, Benjamin E. Droguet, Richard M. Parker, and Silvia Vignolini
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00836

3D-printed liquid metal polymer composites as NIR-responsive 4D printing soft robot

Nov 28, 2023 – by Liwen Zhang, Xumin Huang, Tim Cole, Hongda Lu, Jiangyu Hang, Weihua Li, Shi-Yang Tang, Cyrille Boyer, Thomas P. Davis and Ruirui Qiao

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43667-4

Ultranarrow Line Width Room-Temperature Single-Photon Source from Perovskite Quantum Dot Embedded in Optical Microcavity

Nov 28, 2023 – by Tristan Farrow, Amit R. Dhawan, Ashley R. Marshall, Alexander Ghorbal, Wonmin Son, Henry J. Snaith, Jason M. Smith, and Robert A. Taylor
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02058

Chronological Development of Functional Fluorophores for Bio-Imaging

Nov 28, 2023 – by Subrata Munan, Young-Tae Chang, and Animesh Samanta
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2023/CC/D3CC04895K

Azobenzene as a photoswitchable mechanophore

Dec. 05, 2023 – Yiran Li, Bin Xue, Jiahui Yang, Julong Jiang, Jing Liu, Yanyan Zhou, Junsheng Zhang, Mengjiao Wu, Yuan Yuan, Zhenshu Zhu, Zhi Jian Wang, Yulan Chen, Yu Harabuchi, Tasuku Nakajima, Wei Wang, Satoshi Maeda, Jian Ping Gong and Yi Cao.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01389-6

Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions

Dec. 05, 2023 – by Chun-Lin Deng, Akachukwu D. Obi, Bi Youan E. Tra, Samir Kumar Sarkar, Diane A. Dickie and Robert J. Gilliard

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01381-0