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Molecular persistently luminescent materials have received recent attention due to their promising applications in optical displays, biological imaging, chemical sensing, and security systems. In this review, we systematically summarize recent advances in establishing persistently luminescent materials-specifically focusing on materials composed of molecular hybrids for the first time. We describe the main strategies for synthesizing these hybrid materials, namely (i) inorganics/organics, (ii) organics/organics, and (iii) organics/polymer systems and demonstrate how molecular hybrids provide synergistic effects, while improving luminescence lifetimes and efficiencies. These hybrid materials promote new methods for tuning key physical properties such as singlet-triplet excited state energies by controlling the chemical interactions and molecular orientations in the solid state. We review new advances in these materials from the perspective of examining experimental and theoretical approaches to room-temperature phosphorescence and thermally-activated delayed fluorescence. Finally, this review concludes by summarizing the current challenges and future opportunities for these hybrid materials.Different Pd-complexes containing orthometallated push-pull oxazolones were inserted by supramolecular Pd-amino acid coordination on two genetically engineered modified variants of the thermoalkalophilic Geobacillus thermocatenolatus lipase (GTL). Pd-lipase conjugation was performed on the solid phase in the previously immobilized form of GTL under mild conditions, and soluble conjugated Pd-GTL complexes were obtained by simply desorbing by washing with an acetonitrile aqueous solution. Three different Pd complexes were incorporated into two different genetically modified enzyme variants, one containing all the natural cysteine residues changed to serine residues, and another variant including an additional Cys mutation directly in the catalytic serine (Ser114Cys). The new Pd-enzyme conjugates were fluorescent even at ppm concentrations, while under the same conditions free Pd complexes did not show fluorescence at all. The Pd conjugation with the enzyme extremely increases the catalytic profile of the corresponding Pd complex from 200 to almost 1000-fold in the hydrogenation of arenes in aqueous media, achieving in the case of GTL conjugated with orthopalladated 4a an outstanding TOF value of 27 428 min-1. Also the applicability of GTL-C114 conjugated with orthopalladated 4b in a site-selective C-H activation reaction under mild conditions has been demonstrated. Therefore, the Pd incorporation into the enzyme produces a highly stable conjugate, and improves remarkably the catalytic activity and selectivity, as well as the fluorescence intensity, of the Pd complexes.Inorganic salts with multiple anions have recently received increasing interest in view of their structural diversity and multifunctional properties, and oxysulfides are one type of such salts. Here, three novel oxysulfides Y2Zr2S3O4 (1), Y2Hf2S3O4 (2), and Tm2Z2S3O4 (3) are obtained by high-temperature solid-state reactions. this website They crystallize with the orthorhombic space group Pbam and their three-dimensional structures featuring MS3O4 (M = Zr, Hf) motifs built an unprecedented [M2S3O4]8-∞ wrinkle layer. Their optical band gaps are determined and 3 shows antiferromagnetic-like behavior. Theoretical calculations suggest their direct band gaps and the electron transfer between the frontier orbitals mainly occurred from S-3p and O-2p, to Y-4d and Zr-4d/Hf-5d orbitals.Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a rapid, no-sample preparation, remote detection method that has been applied widely in the area of heavy metal detection in the soil. However, the promotion of LIBS is limited by its disadvantages, such as low precision analysis, a high detection limit, and so on. In recent years, many studies have been conducted to improve the LIBS spectral intensity. The double-pulse LIBS (DP-LIBS) is a representative technology in this area. Most of the research work focuses on the analytical methods of DP-LIBS, including the spatial configuration, the inter-pulse time, and the effect of signal enhancement of the DP-LIBS. However, there are few reports about the effect of the energy proportion of the two lasers and the contribution of different laser energies on the signal enhancement, and the inter-pulse time under the conditions of different laser energies. Moreover, DP-LIBS is mostly evaluated by the enhancement factor of the spectral signal, and there are few reports on the quantitative analysis of double-pulse LIBS. This study, which mainly detects Cu, Ni, and Pb in the soil, focuses on the contribution of the signal enhancement by adjusting the energy ratio of the two lasers and the best inter-pulse time under the conditions of different laser energies. Then, quantitative analysis of spectral signals obtained by single-pulse LIBS (SP-LIBS) and DP-LIBS are performed based on the random forest (RF) model. The results demonstrate that DP-LIBS shows better analytical performance than SP-LIBS, the coefficients of determination (R2) of the test have great improvement, the root-mean-squared error (RMSE) is much decreased and the relative error is much improved. Thus, this study shows that DP-LIBS is an effective method for the quantitative analysis of heavy metals in the soil.A metal-free 2-selenylation of tryptophan derivatives is reported, where the use of iodide as the catalyst and oxone as the oxidant is key to obtain high yields. Various functional groups within the di-seleny and the indole ring are tolerated, and no racemization is generally observed.In photosynthetic complexes, tuning of chlorophyll light-absorption spectra by the protein environment is crucial to their efficiency and robustness. Recombinant type II water soluble chlorophyll-binding proteins from Brassicaceae (WSCPs) are useful for studying spectral tuning mechanisms due to their symmetric homotetramer structure, and the ability to rigorously modify the chlorophyll's protein surroundings. Our previous comparison of the crystal structures of two WSCP homologues suggested that protein-induced chlorophyll ring deformation is the predominant spectral tuning mechanism. Here, we implement a more rigorous analysis based on hybrid quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics calculations to quantify the relative contributions of geometrical and electrostatic factors to the absorption spectra of WSCP-chlorophyll complexes. We show that when considering conformational dynamics, geometry distortions such as chlorophyll ring deformation accounts for about one-third of the spectral shift, whereas the direct polarization of the electron density accounts for the remaining two-thirds.