Wenrui Chai

ORCID: 0000-0002-5801-0135
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Research Areas
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Hydrogen Storage and Materials
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Thin-Film Transistor Technologies

The University of Texas at Austin
2017-2025

Education and Research Institute
2019

Doping of a strong-binding single-atom element into inert close-packed substrates leads to highly active and selective initial dehydrogenation at the α-C–H site adsorbed ethanol.

10.1039/c9ta04572d article EN Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2019-01-01

PCM-101 is a phosphine coordination material comprised of tris(p-carboxylato)triphenylphosphine and secondary pillaring groups coordinated to [M3 (OH)]5+ nodes (M=Co, Ni). has unique topology in which R3 P: sites are arranged directly trans one another, with P⋅⋅⋅P separation distance dictated by the pillars. Post-synthetic soft metals proceeds at room temperature provide X-ray quality crystals that permit full structural resolution. Addition AuCl forces large distortion parent framework. In...

10.1002/anie.201802402 article EN Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2018-05-11

The growth of Sn and Pt–Sn clusters on TiO2(110) has been studied by scanning tunneling microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), low energy ion scattering (LEIS), density functional theory (DFT). At coverages (0.02 ML), single-layer high SnOx are formed with a narrow size distribution uniform spatial distribution. XPS experiments indicate that these consist oxidized Sn, the corresponding reduction in TiO2 substrate is observed. higher coverages, surface still dominated...

10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c03338 article EN The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2021-08-10

Sn clusters have been grown on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surfaces and investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), density functional theory (DFT) calculations. At low coverages ranging from 0.02 to 0.25 ML, grows as small that nucleate uniformly the terraces. This behavior is in contrast with growth of transition metals such Pd, Pt, Re HOPG, given these form large preferential nucleation for Pd Pt at favored low-coordination...

10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c08215 article EN The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2024-02-19

Abstract PCM‐101 is a phosphine coordination material comprised of tris(p‐carboxylato)triphenylphosphine and secondary pillaring groups coordinated to [M 3 (OH)] 5+ nodes (M=Co, Ni). has unique topology in which R P: sites are arranged directly trans one another, with P⋅⋅⋅P separation distance dictated by the pillars. Post‐synthetic soft metals proceeds at room temperature provide X‐ray quality crystals that permit full structural resolution. Addition AuCl forces large distortion parent...

10.1002/ange.201802402 article EN Angewandte Chemie 2018-05-11

Hydrogen-bonding motifs of proteins are deciphered by ultraviolet photodissociation mass spectrometry.

10.1039/c7cp04073c article EN Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2017-01-01

The precise control of mechanochemical activation within deep tissues via non-invasive ultrasound holds profound implications for advancing our understanding fundamental biomedical sciences and revolutionizing disease treatments. However, a theory-guided mechanoresponsive materials system with well-defined has yet to be explored. Here we present the concept using porous hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) as toolkits focused programmably triggered drug specific cellular events in...

10.1101/2023.12.08.570721 preprint EN bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023-12-09

A set of bioinspired carbamoyl CNP pincer complexes are reported that relevant to [Fe]-hydrogenase (Hmd). The dicarbonyl species [(CNHNNHPR2)Fe(CO)2I] [R = Ph, 1; R iPr, 2] undergoes ligand deprotonation, resulting in the dearomatized formulas [(CNHNN=PR2)Fe(CO)2] (5 and 6). crystal structure 1H{31P} NMR spectroscopy iodide-bound [Na(18-crown-6)][(CNHNN=PPh2)Fe(CO)2I] (7) showed deprotonated moiety was phosphoramine N(H) linkage. Separately, monocarbonyl [(CNHNNHPR2)Fe(CO)(MeCN)2](BF4) (8 9)...

10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03476 article EN Inorganic Chemistry 2020-02-04
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