Magnetic Bistability in the Crystaline Fullerene Radical Salt

Compounds with magnetic bistability is highly attractive for the construction of switches,thermal sensors,information-storage media and memory devices.Herein,we report a crystalline fullerene radical anion salt[Na(THF)_(5)]C_(60)(1),obtained by the reduction of C_(60) with Na in solution,which exhibits magnetic bistability accompanied with one magnetostructural transition,giving low temperature(LT),high temperature(HT)phases and a metastable phase.

The genome of the recretohalophyte Limonium bicolor provides insights into salt gland development and salinity adaptation during terrestrial evolution

Halophytes have evolved specialized strategies to cope with high salinity.The extreme halophyte sea lavender(Limonium bicolor)lacks trichomes but possesses salt glands on its epidermis that can excrete harmful ions,such as sodium,to avoid salt damage.Here,we report a high-quality,2.92-Gb,chromosome-scale L.bicolor genome assembly based on a combination of Illumina short reads,single-molecule,real-time long reads,chromosome conformation capture(Hi-C)data,and Bionano genome maps,greatly enriching the genomic information on recretohalophytes with multicellular salt glands.Although the L.bicolor genome contains genes that show similarity to trichome fate genes from Arabidopsis thaliana,it lacks homologs of the decision fate genes GLABRA3,ENHANCER OF GLABRA3,GLABRA2,TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA2,and SIAMESE,providing a molecular explanation for the absence of trichomes in this species.We identified key genes(LbHLH and LbTTG1)controlling salt gland development among classical trichome homologous genes and confirmed their roles by showing that their mutations markedly disrupted salt gland initiation,salt secretion,and salt tolerance,thus offering genetic support for the long-standing hypothesis that salt glands and trichomes may share a common origin.In addition,a whole-genome duplication event occurred in the L.bicolor genome after its divergence from Tartary buckwheat and may have contributed to its adaptation to high salinity.The L.bicolor genome resource and genetic evidence reported in this study provide profound insights into plant salt tolerance mechanisms that may facilitate the engineering of salt-tolerant crops.

Stable Boron-Containing Blue-Photoluminescent Radicals

It is highly urgent to develop synthetic strategies to make new category of stable luminescent radicals with desired emission wavelength.In this study,we have isolated two dioxoborocyclic radicals(3 and 4)by a direct synthetic route.They were characterized by UV,EPR spectroscopy and SQUID measurements.Their structures were obtained by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.Both radicals produce blue-photoluminescence(458 nm for 3 and 478 nm for 4)by radiative decay from higher excited states(D_(2)/D_(3))to the ground state(D_(0))based on theoretical calculation,breaking Kasha rule.The work records a new kind of radical emitters and the first stable radicals with blue emission bands.

Simultaneous red-green-blue electroluminescent enhancement directed by surface plasmonic ＂far-field＂ of facile gold nanospheres

Based on the ＂far-field＂ effect of surface plasma resonance, simultaneous red-green-blue electroluminescence enhancement by facile synthesized gold nanospheres were realized in this work, which would be difficult and complex to attain using wavelength-selected localized surface plasma resonance. The plasmonic ＂far-field＂ effect can simultaneously enhance the whole emission region in the white light range, because the enhancing regions from blue to red emission are largely overlapped. By doping gold nanospheres embedded in a poly（3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene）：polystyrene sulfonic acid （PEDOT：PSS） layer, yield enhancement is achieved in more than 95% devices with the best enhancing ratio of 60% and the commission International de UEclairage （CIE） coordinate is stable at approximately （0.33, 0.36）. The plasmonic ＂far-field＂ effect requires an ultra-low working concentration of Au NPs in picomolar magnitude, and shows little negative effect on the electronic process and light scattering, which has big potential in realizing highly efficient white organic light emitting diodes.

Room-Temperature Reversibleσ-Dimerization of a Phenalenyl Radical

Phenalenyl derivatives have been of tremendous interest due to their reversible dimerization in response to the external stimuli such as temperature.However,most of PLY derivatives only show the reversibility dependent on temperature.Herein,we report a unique PLY-based radical anionic salt with reversibleσ-dimerization controlled by solvent rather than temperature.The structure and reversibility of this PLY anion system have been spectroscopically,crystallographically,and theoretically investigated.The molecule exists mainly as theσ-dimer form of K2[σ-12]in toluene,while it can be broken into the monomeric radical anion 1•–by re-dissolving in THF.Moreover,when THF is replaced with toluene,radical 1•–could beσ-dimerized back again.Theoretical calculations reveal that the potassium ions are necessary for the formation of theσ-dimer and the solvent polarity controls theσ-dimerization by regulating the presence of K+.