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本期封面文章来自卜显和院士、庞建东研究员团队的综述文章：Recent progress in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for electrocatalysis。该图以MOFs为主体，其中流过的闪电效果代表电催化作用，MOFs将N₂和H₂O小分子原料通过电催化在孔道、金属、配体或整体框架位点转化成NH₃，H₂和O₂等高价值产物。激光效果由弱变强，代表了电子转移大大增强，传质速率加快以及导电性的提升，这与文章所表达的如何从微观上提升MOFs电催化性能的理念相呼应。该综述为MOFs在电催化领域的应用提供了新思路，加深了对MOFs和电催化之间构效关系的认识。

See Jiandong Pang, Xian-He Bu et al., https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00063F.

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Introducing Industrial Chemistry & Materials

Highlight: Editor-in-Chief Suojiang Zhang introduces the first issue of the new journal, Industrial Chemistry & Materials.

Recent progress in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for electrocatalysis

Highlight: Recent progress of metal–organic framework (MOF) based catalysts in the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction, hydrogen oxidation reaction, oxygen evolution reaction, oxygen reduction reaction and nitrogen reduction reaction is summarized.

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Ionic liquid/poly(ionic liquid)-based electrolytes for lithium batteries

Highlight: Lithium batteries have received a lot of attention in recent years. This comment reviewed the application of ionic liquid and poly(ionic liquid)-based electrolytes in lithium batteries.

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Recent progress in non-fused ring electron acceptors for high performance organic solar cells

Highlight: The recent progress in non-fused ring electron acceptor-based organic solar cells has been reviewed from the perspective of material design strategies.

Recent advances in the detection and removal of heavy metal ions using functionalized layered double hydroxides: a review

Highlight: Recent advances in the detection and removal of heavy metal ions using layered double hydroxide-based nanosensors and nanosorbents are summarized.

Multicomponent catalyst design for CO₂/N₂/NO_x electroreduction

Highlight: The recent progress in multicomponent catalyst design for CO₂/N₂/NO_x electroreduction is summarized from three models.

Hierarchically ordered porous carbon with atomically dispersed cobalt for oxidative esterification of furfural

Highlight: Co-SA/3DOM-NC catalysts with a three-dimensional ordered macropore structure and highly dispersed CoN₄ sites are successfully fabricated, and show high catalytic activity and selectivity in the oxidative esterification of furfural.

Co and Ni single sites on the (111)n surface of γ-Al₂O₃ – a periodic boundary DFT study

Highlight: Coordination of Co and Ni single-atom on the most active tri-coordinated Al/Metal single-site (111)n surface of γ-Al₂O₃ leads to stable electron configuration of d⁷ for Co and d⁸ for Ni on the surface of γ-Al₂O₃.

Poly(alkyl-biphenyl pyridinium) anion exchange membranes with a hydrophobic side chain for mono-/divalent anion separation

Highlight: Poly(alkyl-biphenyl pyridinium) AEMs with a hydrophobic side chain were fabricated for mono-/divalent anion separation.

Supercritical CO₂-induced room-temperature ferromagnetism in two-dimensional MoO_3−x

Highlight: With the use of supercritical CO₂, two-dimensional defective MoO_3−x can achieve ideal ferromagnetic responses with the Curie temperature reaching over 380 K.