Publications

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2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021

13. Dihydrobenzofuro [3, 2-b] benzofuran: a light-driven molecular switch with fluorescence switching, bistability, and intrinsic chirality

Fathy Hassan, Nivedha Velmurugan, Jingyun Tan, Yuan-Qiu-Qiang Yi, Yury Torubaev, Sile Nic Chormaic, Akimitsu Narita, Christine Luscombe

Chemical Science, 2026, Newly published. DOI: 10.1039/d6sc04288k

A chemical reaction is drawn on screen, with a molecule containing four ring structures shown on the left. On the right is the molecule after irradiation with 285 nm light. A carbon-oxygen bond breaks to result in a fluorescent compound, containing 3 rings within its structure.

The molecular scaffold ‘opens’ when under 285 nm wavelength light, with one carbon-oxygen bond breaking. In this ‘open’ state (B-OH), the molecule exhibits fluorescence, so it’s easy to detect this structural change. The reaction reverses under 325 nm light. The molecule on the left side of the reaction (DHB) is intrinsically chiral, with the two enantiomers (mirror image forms of the molecule) showing opposite circular dichroism (CD) spectra, which measures the difference in absorption of left or right circularly polarized light.

12. Outstanding Reviewers for Polymer Chemistry in 2025

Christine Luscombe and Maria Southall

Polymer Chemistry, 2026, 17, 2897.

11. From Chaos to Innovation: The Evolution and Promise of Semiconducting Polymers

Neil Gussman and Christine Luscombe

Chemistry International, 2026, 48, 19-21. DOI: 10.1515/ci-2026-0305

10. Basic classification and definitions of polymerization reactions (IUPAC Recommendations 2025)

Wesley S. Farrell, Daniel J. Keddie, Christine K. Luscombe, John B. Matson, Jan Merna, Graeme Moad, Gregory T. Russell, Lydia Sosa Vargas, Patrick Théato and Paul D. Topham

Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2026 DOI: 10.1515/pac-2025-0490

9. The effect of weathering environments on microplastic chemical identification with Raman and IR spectroscopy: Part II. polystyrene, polyethylene terephthalate, and nylon 6

Samantha Phan, Jonathan J Ramtahal and Christine K Luscombe

Soft Matter, 2026, 22, 3403-3419. DOI: 10.1039/D5SM01102G

8. Significant Thickness Dependence of In-Plane Thermal Conductivity in Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) Thin Films

Jiyoung Kim, Lorenzo Guio, Takahiko Kawai, Shunsuke Murayama, Tomonaga Okabe, Haruki Meguro, Jinghang Dai, Samuel Kielar, Jinha Kwon, Christine Luscombe and Zhiting Tian

ACS Materials Lett, 2026, 8, 1358–1365. DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.5c01197

TOC Graphic 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.5c01197

7. Evolution of catalyst transfer polymerization toward complex conjugated polymer architectures

Isha Sanskriti and Christine K. Luscombe

Polymer Journal, 2026, 58, 609-628. DOI: 10.1038/s41428-026-01146-9

6. Chloroform outperforms chlorobenzene for enhanced mobility in amphiphilic polymer OFETs

Preeti Yadav, Shunsuke Yamamoto, Kodai Yamanaka, Hengyuan Wang, Nadege Bonnet, Yabing Qi, Itaru Osaku and Christine K. Luscombe

RSC Appl. Polym., 2026, 4, 716-724. DOI: 10.1039/D5LP00320B

5. Additive-Induced Morphology Change of Polymer Film Enables Enhanced Charge Mobility and Faster Organic Electrochemical Transistor Switching

Yuan-Qiu-Qiang Yi, Nadege Bonnet, Kodai Yamanaka, Katherine Lei, Arianna Magni, Alberto Salleo, Itaru Osaka and Christine K. Luscombe

ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2026, 8, 2077-2085. DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.5c04176

4. Uncovering a radical-mediated mechanism in the Kumada catalyst transfer polymerization of glycolated polythiophenes

Abdulrahman Bakry, Preeti Yadav, Wissem Khelifi, Julia Khusnutdinova and Christine Luscombe

Polymer Chemistry, 2026, 17, 584-592. DOI: 10.1039/D5PY01139F

3. Solvent-Tuned Aggregation and Its Limited Functional Impact in a Rigid-Rod Indacenodithiophene-Benzothiadiazole Copolymer

Lorenzo Guio, Parker Sommerville, Lilo D. Pozzo, Christine K. Luscombe

ACS Polymers Au, 2026, 6, 388-398. DOI: 10.1021/acspolymersau.5c00155

2. A brief guide to polymer terminology (IUPAC Technical Report)

Roger C. Hiorns, Jiří Vohlídal, Ray Boucher, Chin H. Chan, Christopher M. Fellows, Michael Hess, Richard G. Jones, Pavel Kratochvíl, Christine K. Luscombe, John B. Matson, Graeme Moad, Olga E. Philippova, Stan Slomkowski, Natalie Stingelin, Patrick Théato, Jean-Pierre Vairon and Michel Vert

Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2026, 98, 1-8. DOI: 10.1515/pac-2023-0304

1. IUPAC 通信: 第６回IUPACの未来：変革と科学絵の再焦点

Christine Luscombe

化学と工業, 2026, 79, 049-050.