Pacifichem 2015 will host a variety of “Materials & Nanoscience” sessions, covering topics such as self-assembly, materials synthesis, energy, membranes, magnetic materials, graphene, nanoparticles, spintronics, optoelectronics, bioinspired materials, electrochemistry, and much more. In the selection below, we have featured a few top articles from across the ACS Publications portfolio that relate to these exciting sessions. We hope that these picks will help to prepare and inspire readers as they head to engaging talks at the Pacifichem conference.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Effect of Lanthanide Metal Complexation on the Properties and Electronic Structure of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films

Matthew L. Moser, Aron Pekker, Xiaojuan Tian, Elena Bekyarova, Mikhail E Itkis, and Robert C Haddon
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00942
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
Initial Cell Adhesion on Well-Defined Surface by Polymer Brush Layers with Varying Chemical Structures

Kazuhiko Ishihara, Tomomi Kitagawa, and Yuuki Inoue
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2015 1 (2), 103-109
DOI: 10.1021/ab500048w
ACS Central Science
Mesoporous TiO2 Mesocrystals: Remarkable Defects-Induced Crystallite-Interface Reactivity and Their in Situ Conversion to Single Crystals

Yong Liu, Yongfeng Luo, Ahmed A. Elzatahry, Wei Luo, Renchao Che, Jianwei Fan, Kun Lan, Abdullah M. Al-Enizi, Zhenkun Sun, Bin Li, Zhengwang Liu, Dengke Shen, Yun Ling, Chun Wang, Jingxiu Wang, Wenjun Gao, Chi Yao, Kaiping Yuan, Huisheng Peng, Yun Tang, Yonghui Deng, Gengfeng Zheng, Gang Zhou, and Dongyuan Zhao
ACS Central Science 2015 1 (7), 400-408
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5b00256
Ultrahigh Surface Area Three-Dimensional Porous Graphitic Carbon from Conjugated Polymeric Molecular Framework

John W. F. To, Zheng Chen, Hongbin Yao, Jiajun He, Kwanpyo Kim, Ho-Hsiu Chou, Lijia Pan, Jennifer Wilcox, Yi Cui, and Zhenan Bao
ACS Central Science 2015 1 (2), 68-76
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5b00149
ACS Combinatorial Science
Evaluation of the SO2 and NH3 Gas Adsorption Properties of CuO/ZnO/Mn3O4 and CuO/ZnO/NiO Ternary Impregnated Activated Carbon Using Combinatorial Materials Science Methods

Jennifer V. Romero, Jock W. H. Smith, Braden M. Sullivan, Landan Macdonald, Lisa M. Croll, and J. R. Dahn
ACS Combinatorial Science 2013 15 (2), 101-110
DOI: 10.1021/co3001132
ACS Macro Letters
Boronic Acid-Based Hydrogels Undergo Self-Healing at Neutral and Acidic pH

Christopher C. Deng, William L.A. Brooks, Khalil A. Abboud, and Brent S. Sumerlin
ACS Macro Letters 2015 4 (2), 220-224
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00018
Recyclable l-Proline Functional Nanoreactors with Temperature-Tuned Activity Based on Core–Shell Nanogels

Annhelen Lu, Dafni Moatsou, Ian Hands-Portman, Deborah A. Longbottom, and Rachel K. O’Reilly
ACS Macro Letters 2014 3 (12), 1235-1239
DOI: 10.1021/mz500704y
ACS Nano
Artificial Micromotors in the Mouse’s Stomach: A Step toward in Vivo Use of Synthetic Motors

Wei Gao, Renfeng Dong, Soracha Thamphiwatana, Jinxing Li, Weiwei Gao, Liangfang Zhang, and Joseph Wang
ACS Nano 2015 9 (1), 117-123
DOI: 10.1021/nn507097k
Surface Interactions with Compartmentalized Cellular Phosphates Explain Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticle Hazard and Provide Opportunities for Safer Design

Ruibin Li, Zhaoxia Ji, Chong Hyun Chang, Darren R. Dunphy, Xiaoming Cai, Huan Meng, Haiyuan Zhang, Bingbing Sun, Xiang Wang, Juyao Dong, Sijie Lin, Meiying Wang, Yu-Pei Liao, C. Jeffrey Brinker, Andre Nel, and Tian Xia
ACS Nano 2014 8 (2), 1771-1783
DOI: 10.1021/nn406166n
Bioconjugate Chemistry
Tuning Surface Charge and PEGylation of Biocompatible Polymers for Efficient Delivery of Nucleic Acid or Adenoviral Vector

Joung-Woo Choi, Jaesung Kim, Quang Nam Bui, Yi Li, Chae-Ok Yun, Doo Sung Lee, and Sung Wan Kim
Bioconjugate Chemistry 2015 26 (8), 1818-1829
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.5b00357
Design and Synthesis of Amphiphilic and Luminescent Tris-Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes Containing Cationic Peptides as Inducers and Detectors of Cell Death via a Calcium-Dependent Pathway

Yosuke Hisamatsu, Ai Shibuya, Nozomi Suzuki, Toshihiro Suzuki, Ryo Abe, and Shin Aoki
Bioconjugate Chemistry 2015 26 (5), 857-879
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.5b00095
Biomacromolecules
In Vitro Study of Electroactive Tetraaniline-Containing Thermosensitive Hydrogels for Cardiac Tissue Engineering

Haitao Cui, Yadong Liu, Yilong Cheng, Zhe Zhang, Peibiao Zhang, Xuesi Chen, and Yen Wei
Biomacromolecules 2014 15 (4), 1115-1123
DOI: 10.1021/bm4018963
Enzyme-Degradable Self-Assembled Nanostructures from Polymer–Peptide Hybrids

Daniel Bacinello, Elisabeth Garanger, Daniel Taton, Kam Chiu Tam, and Sébastien Lecommandoux
Biomacromolecules 2014 15 (5), 1882-1888
DOI: 10.1021/bm500296n
Chemical Research in Toxicology
Culture Medium-Associated Physicochemical Insights on the Cytotoxicity of Carbon Nanomaterials

Huating Kong, Lihua Wang, Ying Zhu, Qing Huang, and Chunhai Fan
Chemical Research in Toxicology 2015 28 (3), 290-295
DOI: 10.1021/tx500477y
Heme-Regulated eIF2α Kinase Plays a Crucial Role in Protecting Erythroid Cells against Pb-Induced Hemolytic Stress

Xiaoyan Wang, Lixin Wang, and Sijin Liu
Chemical Research in Toxicology 2015 28 (3), 460-469
DOI: 10.1021/tx500422q
Chemistry of Materials
NMR Techniques for Noble Metal Nanoparticles

Lauren E. Marbella and Jill E. Millstone
Chemistry of Materials 2015 27 (8), 2721-2739
DOI: 10.1021/cm504809c
The Rise of Organic Bioelectronics

Jonathan Rivnay, Róisín M. Owens, and George G. Malliaras
Chemistry of Materials 2014 26 (1), 679-685
DOI: 10.1021/cm4022003
Crystal Growth & Design
4,6-Connected fsb Topology Networks Obtained through Two-Step Crystal Engineering of Decorated Trigonal Prismatic Nodes

Alexander Schoedel, Michael Jaquier, Wesley Boyette, Lukasz Wojtas, Mohamed Eddaoudi, and Michael J. Zaworotko
Crystal Growth & Design 2014 14 (5), 2115-2117
DOI: 10.1021/cg500205f
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Mass Transport in Hybrid PTMSP/Silica Membranes

Michele Galizia, Maria Grazia De Angelis, Massimo Messori, and Giulio C. Sarti
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2014 53 (22), 9243-9255
DOI: 10.1021/ie4035225
Computational Screening of Metal Catecholates for Ammonia Capture in Metal–Organic Frameworks

Ki Chul Kim, Peyman Z. Moghadam, David Fairen-Jimenez, and Randall Q. Snurr
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2015 54 (13), 3257-3267
DOI: 10.1021/ie504945w
Inorganic Chemistry
Crystal Growth of Four Oxovanadium(IV) Tartrates Prepared via a Mild Two-Step Hydrothermal Method: Observation of Spin-Dimer Behavior and Second Harmonic Generation

Anthony J. Cortese, Branford Wilkins, Mark D. Smith, Jeongho Yeon, Gregory Morrison, T. Thao Tran, P. Shiv Halasyamani, and Hans-Conrad zur Loye
Inorganic Chemistry 2015 54 (8), 4011-4020
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00275
A Route to Metal-Organic Frameworks through Framework Templating

Zhangwen Wei, Weigang Lu, Hai-Long Jiang, and Hong-Cai Zhou
Inorganic Chemistry 2013 52 (3), 1164-1166
DOI: 10.1021/ic3019937
Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data
Measurement of High-Pressure Densities and Atmospheric Viscosities of Ionic Liquids: 1-Hexyl-3-methylimidazolium Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide and 1-Hexyl-3-methylimidazolium Chloride

Masayuki Iguchi, Yuya Hiraga, Yoshiyuki Sato, Taku Michael Aida, Masaru Watanabe, and Richard L. Smith, Jr.
Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data 2014 59 (3), 709-717
DOI: 10.1021/je4007844
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
Soluble Diazaiptycenes: Materials for Solution-Processed Organic Electronics

Philipp Biegger, Sebastian Stolz, Sebastian N. Intorp, Yexiang Zhang, Jens U. Engelhart, Frank Rominger, Kenneth I. Hardcastle, Uli Lemmer, Xuhong Qian, Manuel Hamburger, and U. H. F. Bunz
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015 80 (1), 582-589
DOI: 10.1021/jo502564w
High-Spin Organic Molecules

Nolan M. Gallagher, Arnon Olankitwanit, and Andrzej Rajca
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015 80 (3), 1291-1298
DOI: 10.1021/jo502505r
Langmuir
Multicore Iron Oxide Mesocrystals Stabilized by a Poly(phenylenepyridyl) Dendron and Dendrimer: Role of the Dendron/Dendrimer Self-Assembly

David Gene Morgan, Bethany S. Boris, Nina V. Kuchkina, Ekaterina Yu. Yuzik-Klimova, Svetlana A. Sorokina, Barry D. Stein, Dmitri I. Svergun, Alessandro Spilotros, Athanasia Kostopoulou, Alexandros Lappas, Zinaida B. Shifrina, and Lyudmila M. Bronstein
Langmuir 2014 30 (28), 8543-8550
DOI: 10.1021/la502409r
Macromolecules
Reinforcement of Optically Healable Supramolecular Polymers with Cellulose Nanocrystals

Souleymane Coulibaly, Anita Roulin, Sandor Balog, Mahesh V. Biyani, E. Johan Foster, Stuart J. Rowan, Gina L. Fiore, and Christoph Weder
Macromolecules 2014 47 (1), 152-160
DOI: 10.1021/ma402143c
The Copolymer Blending Method: A New Approach for Targeted Assembly of Micellar Nanoparticles

Daniel B. Wright, Joseph P. Patterson, Anaïs Pitto-Barry, Annhelen Lu, Nigel Kirby, Nathan C. Gianneschi, Christophe Chassenieux, Olivier Colombani, and Rachel K. O’Reilly
Macromolecules 2015 48 (18), 6516-6522
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01426
Molecular Pharmaceutics
Charge-Conversional PEG-Polypeptide Polyionic Complex Nanoparticles from Simple Blending of a Pair of Oppositely Charged Block Copolymers as an Intelligent Vehicle for Efficient Antitumor Drug Delivery

Shixian Lv, Wantong Song, Zhaohui Tang, Mingqiang Li, Haiyang Yu, Hua Hong, and Xuesi Chen
Molecular Pharmaceutics 2014 11 (5), 1562-1574
DOI: 10.1021/mp4007387
Nano Letters
Solution-Processed Dielectrics Based on Thickness-Sorted Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanosheets

Jian Zhu, Joohoon Kang, Junmo Kang, Deep Jariwala, Joshua D. Wood, Jung-Woo T. Seo, Kan-Sheng Chen, Tobin J. Marks, and Mark C. Hersam
Nano Letters 2015 15 (10), 7029-7036
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03075
3D Printed Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes
Yong Lin Kong, Ian A. Tamargo, Hyoungsoo Kim, Blake N. Johnson, Maneesh K. Gupta, Tae-Wook Koh, Huai-An Chin, Daniel A. Steingart, Barry P. Rand, and Michael C. McAlpine

Nano Letters 2014 14 (12), 7017-7023
DOI: 10.1021/nl5033292
Organometallics
CCC–Pincer–NHC Osmium Complexes: New Types of Blue-Green Emissive Neutral Compounds for Organic Light-Emitting Devices (OLEDs)

Roberto G. Alabau, Beatriz Eguillor, Jim Esler, Miguel A. Esteruelas, Montserrat Oliván, Enrique Oñate, Jui-Yi Tsai, and Chuanjun Xia
Organometallics 2014 33 (19), 5582-5596
DOI: 10.1021/om500905t
Highly Quantum Efficient Phosphorescent Sky Blue Emitters Based on Diastereomeric Iridium(III) Complexes of Atropisomeric 5-Aryl-4H-1,2,4-triazole Ligands

Jerald Feldman, Giang D. Vo, Charles D. McLaren, Troy C. Gehret, Kyung-Ho Park, Jeffrey S. Meth, Will J. Marshall, Joseph Buriak, Lois M. Bryman, Kerwin D. Dobbs, Thomas H. Scholz, and Steve G. Zane
Organometallics 2015 34 (15), 3665-3669
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00198