Happy holidays from everyone in the ChemSocRev Editorial Office! Thank you to all our authors, reviewers, readers and editors for their support in 2025 We'll be returning in the New Year to continue to showcase your highly impactful reviews from across the chemical sciences!

Don't miss "Tailoring the dynamic nanocomposite hydrogels through surface-functionalized nanomaterials and interfacial crosslinking chemistry toward multifunctional biomedical and engineering applications" by Yi-Cheun Yeh & co. Read the full review here 👉

Want to learn more about plastic recycling? Don't miss "Advances of rare earth-based catalysts for recycling CO2 and plastic waste" by Liangliang Zhang, Shuyan Song, Hongjie Zhang and Xiao Wang Read the #OpenAccess review here 👉

Don't miss "Electric fields at hydrophobic water interfaces: spectroscopic evidence, physical origin, and implications on reactivity" by Kwing Yeung Chan, Chenjie Zhuang, Vinh Gia Vuong, Naixin Qian, Xin Gao and Wei Min Read the #OpenAccess review here 👉

Interested in tissue-adhesive hydrogels? Be sure to read "Programmable tissue-adhesive hydrogels with temporal and spatial selectivity" by Lei Liang, Hong Zhang, Fanglian Yao and Junjie Li Read the full review here 👉

Don't miss "Particle swarm optimization in the realm of chemistry: from theory to applications" by Megha Rajeevan, Niha, Chris John, Shobhita Mani and Rotti Srinivasamurthy Swathi Featured as part of our 2025 Pioneering Investigators collection! Read the full review here 👉

From our 2025 Pioneering Investigators collection... "Multifunctional nanomaterials for dental photo-theranostics" by Yujia Shi, Xiaolin Sun, Jiao Fang, Chunyan Li, Biao Dong, Manlin Qi and Lin Wang Read the full Tutorial review here 👉

Out now in ChemSocRev! "Electron transfer in catalysis: from fundamentals to strategies" by Xiaoning Li, Xinwei Guan, Zhenxiang Cheng, Tianyi Ma & colleagues Read the full Tutorial review here 👉

Don't miss "Advances in oxide thermoelectric materials: strategies, applications and beyond" by Qing Wang, Zhifang Zhou, Chang Liu, Yunpeng Zheng, Zongmo Shi, Bin Wei, Wenyu Zhang, Ce-Wen Nan and Yuan-Hua Lin Read it here 👉

Want to learn more about metal-ion batteries? Check out "Recent advances in high-entropy materials for efficient alkali metal-ion batteries" by Liping Duan, Yichen Du, Yijiang Liu, Haowei Tang, Chi Zhou, Dong Ha Kim, Zhiqun Lin and Xiaosi Zhou Read the full review here 👉

Be sure to read "Recent advances in asymmetric bimetallic catalysis" by Fang Wei, Jialin Qi, Xiangqing Jia and Zhenghu Xu Read the full review here 👉

Out now in ChemSocRev! "Single-molecule quantum tunnelling sensors" by Long Yi, Yuxin Yang, Biao-Feng Zeng, Xu Liu, Joshua B. Edel, Aleksandar P. Ivanov and Longhua Tang Read the full review here 👉

Happy to share that our review on TICT-based fluorescent probes is now published in @chemsocrev.rsc.org - great working with this team including @chemosensors.bsky.social at @bathchem.bsky.social doi.org/10.1039/D3CS...

Interested in organic luminescent materials? Check out "Combining quantum chemistry, machine learning and rate theory for organic luminescent materials" by Rongrong Li, Qi Ou and Zhigang Shuai Read the full review here 👉

Be sure to read "Multi-site electrocatalysts for hydrogen production under neutral conditions" by Zhouzhou Wang, Jianqing Zhou, Yaran Shi, Li Luo, Haoran Li, Qiancheng Zhou, Chunchun Wang, Zhuo Xing, Ze Yang and Ying Yu Read the full review here 👉

Don't miss this recent Tutorial review, featured in our 2025 Pioneering Investigators collection! "Supramolecular dyes: advancing precision medicine through molecular engineering" by Chonglu Li, Honglin Jin, Chao Yuan, Suhua Wang, Yao Sun & co. Read it here 👉

Out now in ChemSocRev! "Advanced Ah-level zinc metal batteries" by Zequan Zhao, Qingquan Ye, Yangyang Liu, Bingan Lu, Shuquan Liang and Jiang Zhou Read the full Tutorial review here 👉

Be sure to read "Advances in triple-phase catalysis for energy and environmental applications" by Xiaoying Li, Jinwei Xu, Yusheng Ye, Baoliang Chen and Xin Xiao Read the full review here 👉

Included in our collection on Zeolite Catalysis... "Confinement effects on molecular diffusion in zeolites: mechanisms and perspectives" by Lei Zhao, Jiamin Yuan, Youdong Xing, Ji Qi, Peng Peng, Zhiqiang Liu and Anmin Zheng Read the full review here 👉

From our 2025 #PioneeringInvestigators collection... "Catalytic redox-neutral carboxylation with CO2" by Si-Shun Yan, Tian-Yu Gao, Yi Liu, Yi-Fei Chen, Jun-Ze Zuo, Qin-Fang Zhang, Lei Song, Wei Zhang, Jian-Heng Ye and Da-Gang Yu Read the full review here 👉

Don't miss the latest #OpenAccess review by Jia Li, Hai-Hao Han, Xiao-Peng He, Simon E. Lewis, Hanafy M. Ismail, Tony D. James, & co! "Twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) based fluorescent probes and imaging agents" Read the full review here 👉

From our collection on Halide Perovskites! "Layered tin halide perovskites in photovoltaics" by Mengqiong Zhu, Bhumika Chaudhary, Anamika Mishra, Michael Saliba and Jovana V. Milić Read the full review article here 👉

Interested in green chemical synthesis? Check out this 2 part Review by Gianvito Vile & co. "Towards greener-by-design fine chemicals. Part 1: synthetic frontiers" 👉

Don't miss "Chemical tools for discriminating single nucleotide variants: from design principles to clinical applications" by Dan Huang, Yao Liu, Guan Alex Wang, Sitong Lv, Yun Tan and Feng Li Part of our #PioneeringInvestigators collection 👉

From our 2025 #PioneeringInvestigators collection... "Hydrogen-bonded π-conjugated supramolecular polymers" by Pedro Ximenis, Daniel Martínez, Llorenç Rubert and Bartolome Soberats Read the #OpenAccess review here 👉🔓

Out now in ChemSocRev... "Chemiresistive gas sensors for intelligent sensing: design strategies, emerging applications and future challenges" by Chencheng Hu, Wei Zhang, Jiaqi Yang, Yuehan Pei, Xiaoyi Tan, Biao Dong, Hongwei Song and Lin Xu Read the full review here 👉

Check out "Twenty years after: scaling relations in oxygen electrocatalysis and beyond" by Vladislav Ivanistsev, Ritums Cepitis, Jan Rossmeisl and Nadezda Kongi Read the full Tutorial review here 👉🔓

Be sure to read "Ab initio electronic structure calculations of lanthanide single-molecule magnets; a practical guide" by @nfchilton.bsky.social Read the #OpenAccess Tutorial review here 👉🔓

From our 2025 #PioneeringInvestigators collection... "Formaldehyde and its surrogates as a C1 platform for defossilised modern societies" by Andrea Rodil, Jan Deska and Martin H. G. Prechtl Read the #OpenAccess Tutorial review here 👉

Don't miss this new #OpenAccess review by Francisco Foubelo, Carmen Nájera, M. Gracia Retamosa, José M. Sansano, Ana Sirvent and Miguel Yus "Decarboxylative photocatalytic transformations" Read the full review here 👉🔓

From our 2025 Pioneering Investigators collection... "Activatable covalent labeling probes: design, mechanism, and biological applications" by Yinxing Miao, Yuyang Tian and Deju Ye Read the full review here 👇

Be sure to read "Emerging applications of stimulated Raman scattering microscopy for medicinal chemistry and drug discovery" by Henry J. Braddick, William J. Tipping, Emma K. Grant, Nicholas C. O. Tomkinson, Karen Faulds and Duncan Graham Read the #OpenAccess review here 👇

Interested in flexible biosensing platforms? Check out "Electrochromic-based visualised flexible biosensing platforms: from single device to multifunctional device integration" by Yuxiao Zhang, Rongrong Bao, Jianbei Qiu, Yue Liu, Zhengwen Yang and Caofeng Pan Read it here👇

Check out "Metalloporphyrin- and metallocorrole-based catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction: from molecules to materials" by Haitao Lei, Jinxiu Han, Qian Zhao, Jinkun Liu, Long Yan, Wei Zhang and Rui Cao Read the full review here 👇

Don't miss this new #OpenAccess Tutorial Review by Kai Zhu, David R. Spring, Bing-Feng Shi and Fengzhi Zhang! "Recent progress towards catalytic asymmetric construction of inherently chiral scaffolds" Read the full review here👇

Be sure to read "Bilayer nanographenes: structure, properties, and synthetic challenges" by Patricia Izquierdo-García, Juan Lión-Villar, Jesús M. Fernández-García and Nazario Martín Read the #OpenAccess review here 👇

Out now in ChemSocRev! "Mechanistic and thermodynamic insights into binding and activation of small molecules on metallozeolites – relevance for adsorption and catalysis" by Filip Zasada, Piotr Pietrzyk, Mariusz Radoń and Zbigniew Sojka Read it here 👉

From our 2025 Pioneering Investigators collection! "Curium(iii) luminescence spectroscopy as a tool for species determination" by Moritz Schmidt, Andrej Skerencak-Frech, Petra J. Panak and Nina Huittinen Read the #OpenAccess Tutorial review here 👇

Be sure to read this new #OpenAccess Tutorial review by Melanie E. Hoffmann and Fritz E. Kühn "Au NHC complexes as anticancer agents: milestones, strategies and future developments" Read the full Tutorial review here 👇

Interested in near-infrared fluorescence imaging? Check out "Construction and optimization of organic fluorophores in NIR-II fluorescence imaging" by Xiaozhen Li, Yanlong Yang, Ruohan Zhang and Wei Huang Read the full review here 👇

Check out "Current developments and future perspectives on the formation of luminescent lanthanide supramolecular self-assembly architectures with a focus on nitrogen-based donor ligands" by Sandra Fernández-Fariña, Oxana Kotova, Shauna R. Donohoe and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson

Don't miss this new Tutorial Review by @weisslab-unicaen.bsky.social "Organoantimony: a versatile main-group platform for pnictogen-bonding and redox catalysis" by Elisa Chakraborty and Robin Weiss Read the #OpenAccess review here 👇

Check out this #OpenAccess review by Prakash Kafle, Deacon Herndon and Indrajeet Sharma "Sulfenylcarbenes and sulfenylnitrenes in organic synthesis" Read the full Tutorial Review here 👇

Out now in ChemSocRev... "Modeling protein–ligand interactions for drug discovery in the era of deep learning" by Yuzhe Wang, Yibo Li, Jiaxiao Chen and Luhua Lai Read the full review article here 👇

Be sure to read "Radical retrosynthesis: a powerful strategy for modern assembly of terpenoid natural products" by Yong Zhang, Yanbo Zhang and Chao Li Read the full review article here 👇

From our 2025 Pioneering Investigators collection... "Supramolecular catalysis with emerging, functional organic macrocycles and cages" by Rui Ning and Qi-Qiang Wang Read the full review here 👇

Be sure to read "Photothermal methane dry reforming: catalyst architectures, mechanistic pathways, and future challenges" by Ruijie Yang, Chengxuan He, Yuan Dong, Weihao Chen, Lingyun Chen, Zhihan Wang, Miao Kan, Shiqun Wu and Jinlong Zhang Read the full review here 👇

New in ChemSocRev! "Rational structural design of aromatic Azo photoactive small molecules for biomedical applications" by Junjie Ding, Ze Huang, Duoteng Zhang, Yunwei Qu, Shiji Zhang, Congcong Zhang, Bin Fang, Lin Li and Wei Huang Read the full review here 👇

Want to learn more about CO2 electroreduction? Check out "Optimizing CO2 electroreduction: theoretical insights for enhancing efficiency across elementary steps" by Hengan Wang, Xinchen Kang and Buxing Han Read the full review here 👇

Out now in ChemSocRev! "Emerging inorganic–organic hybrid photocatalysts for solar-driven overall water splitting: progress and perspectives" by De-Shan Zhang, Lei Wang, Xiaodong Zhang, Xu-Bing Li, Hangxun Xu, Chen-Ho Tung and Li-Zhu Wu Read the full review here👇