A Two-Step Synthesis of Covalent Genetically Encoded Libraries of Peptide-Derived Macrocycles Enables the Use of Electrophiles with Diverse Reactivity

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• Chemistry & materials/Catalysis & reactionsSep 28, 2026

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  This work establishes an interfacial pathway-regulation strategy for decoupling activity and stability in alkaline ORR catalysis.

  Canhui Zhang, Xiaofan Li, Ning Wang and 9 more — Journal of the American Chemical Society

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• Chemistry & materials/Catalysis & reactionsSep 28, 2026

  Nonmonotonic Charging, Overscreening, and Ion Competition in the Electric Double Layer of Platinum Quantified by X-ray Spectroscopy

  From a systematic analysis of ten electrolytes (including ions such as ClO4–, SO42–, K+, and Ca+), we show that adsorbates alter the surface free charge, resulting in nonmonotonic charging and overscreening.

  Alfred Larsson, Doğukan Yılmaz, Jan Sebastian Dominic Rodriguez and 8 more — Journal of the American Chemical Society

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• Chemistry & materials/Catalysis & reactionsSep 28, 2026

  Activating Basal Planes in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for CO2 Reduction to CO through Alloying

  In this work, we show that sulfur vacancies activate the basal plane of 1H-TMDCs, while concurrent solid-solution alloying provides a mechanism to broadly tune intermediate adsorption energies.

  Eric Montufar-Morales, Daniel Rinder, Pravan Omprakash and 2 more — arXiv

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• Chemistry & materials/Catalysis & reactionsSep 28, 2026

  Assessing the Transferability of General-Purpose MachineLearning Interatomic Potentials for Heterogeneous Catalysis with HetCat26

  Evaluating fifteen foundation models, we find that performance on existing general materials benchmarks is only weakly predictive of performance on HetCat26; transferability to heterogeneous catalysis cannot be inferred from these general benchmarks.

  Alexandre Peuch, Giaan Kler-Young, Kaifeng Niu and 4 more — arXiv

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• Chemistry & materials/Catalysis & reactionsSep 28, 2026

  Discovery and Mechanistic Investigation of a Bacteria-Derived Sesquiterpene Ether Synthase AceS Catalyzing Syn -Protoetherification

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