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Mercouri G. Kanatzidis of Northwestern University celebrates the 30-year anniversary of his independent career as well as his 60th birthday this year. As a tribute to Kanatzidis’ renowned career, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers and guest editors Qichun Zhang (Nanyang Technological University), Jennifer A. Aitken (Duquesne University) and Gerasimos Armatas (University of Crete) are delighted to publish a special web collection to marks these exciting occasions.

In this themed collection, a selection of articles that have been authored by researchers who have been closely associated with Kanatzidis – as students, post-doctoral researchers and colleagues – are featured, covering a diverse spectrum of topics within the fields of materials science and inorganic chemistry.

The full collection of article is FREE to read upon registration till 30 August 2017. Below is a selection of articles highlighted in the collection. Hope you find them enjoyable to read!

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Thirty years of contributions to materials and inorganic chemistry

Editorial

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis. Thirty years of contributions to materials and inorganic chemistry
Qichun Zhang, Gerasimos S. Armatas and Jennifer A. Aitken
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 1098-1099
DOI: 10.1039/C7QI90018J

Research Article

Li₂CdGeSe4 and Li₂CdSnSe4: biaxial nonlinear optical materials with strong infrared second-order responses and laser-induced damage thresholds influenced by photoluminescence
Jian-Han Zhang, Daniel J. Clark, Ashley Weiland, Stanislav S. Stoyko, Yong Soo Kim, Joon I. Jang and Jennifer A. Aitken
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C7QI00004A

Tuning the optical, electronic and thermal properties of Cu₃NbS_4−xSe_x through chemical substitution
Erica M. Chen, Stanislav S. Stoyko, Jennifer A. Aitken and Pierre F. P. Poudeu
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C7QI00264E

Dynamic structural flexibility of Fe-MOF-5 evidenced by ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy
C. K. Brozek, A. Ozarowski, S. A. Stoian and M. Dincă
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 782-788
DOI: 10.1039/C6QI00584E

Exfoliated clay nanosheets as an efficient additive for improving the electrode functionality of graphene-based nanocomposites
Kanyaporn Adpakpang, Seung Mi Oh, Boyeon Park and Seong-Ju Hwang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 521-529
DOI: 10.1039/C6QI00446F

Ultrathin few layer oxychalcogenide BiCuSeO nanosheets
Manisha Samanta, Satya N. Guin and Kanishka Biswas
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 84-90
DOI: 10.1039/C6QI00435K

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Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers strives to promote multi-disciplinary inorganic chemistry research at the interfaces of other areas, including energy science.

We are delighted to share with you a collection of articles from Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers to showcase the role of inorganic chemistry in energy storage and conversion.

You can read these articles for free till the end of July.

Review Articles

Glimpses of the modification of perovskite with graphene-analogous materials in photocatalytic applications
Saumyaprava Acharya, Satyabadi Martha, Prakash Chandra Sahoo and Kulamani Parida

Crystal facet tailoring arts in perovskite oxides
Keke Huang, Long Yuan and Shouhua Feng

Heteroatom-doped carbons: synthesis, chemistry and application in lithium/sulphur batteries
Sheng S. Zhang

Nanocrystalline iron oxide based electroactive materials in lithium ion batteries: the critical role of crystallite size, morphology, and electrode heterostructure on battery relevant electrochemistry
Andrea M. Bruck, Christina A. Cama, Cara N. Gannett, Amy C. Marschilok, Esther S. Takeuchi and Kenneth J. Takeuchi

High performance electrochemical capacitor materials focusing on nickel based materials
Bing Li, Mingbo Zheng, Huaiguo Xue and Huan Pang

Highlights

CO₂ and ambient air in metal–oxygen batteries: steps towards reality
Shaomao Xu, Sampson Lau and Lynden A. Archer

A new sodium storage mechanism of TiO₂ for sodium ion batteries
Dong Yan and Likun Pan

Research articles

Sandwich-like carbon-anchored ultrathin TiO₂ nanosheets realizing ultrafast lithium storage
Yongfu Sun, Jinbao Zhu, Liangfei Bai, Qiuyang Li, Xing Zhang, Wei Tong and Yi Xie

2,2′-Bis(3-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone)/CMK-3 nanocomposite as cathode material for lithium-ion batteries
Hao Li, Wenchao Duan, Qing Zhao, Fangyi Cheng, Jing Liang and Jun Chen

Carbon aerogels electrode with reduced graphene oxide additive for capacitive deionization with enhanced performance
Yong Liu, Chunyang Nie, Likun Pan, Xingtao Xu, Zhuo Sun and Daniel H. C. Chua

Hetero-nuclear coordinated compounds for use in high-performance supercapacitor electrode material design
Liwei Mi, Yang Gao, Shizhong Cui, Hongwei Hou and Weihua Chen

Hierarchical nanoarray materials for advanced nickel–zinc batteries
Zhiyi Lu, Xiaochao Wu, Xiaodong Lei, Yaping Li and Xiaoming Sun

Nickel hydroxide–nickel nanohybrids indirectly from coordination microfibers for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes
Junhong Zhao, Junzhi He, Mengjun Sun, Meijiao Qu and Huan Pang

Porous ZnCo₂O₄ nanoparticles derived from a new mixed-metal organic framework for supercapacitors
Siru Chen, Ming Xue, Yanqiang Li, Ying Pan, Liangkui Zhu, Daliang Zhang, Qianrong Fang and Shilun Qiu

Nanosheet-assembled MoSe₂ and S-doped MoSe_2−x nanostructures for superior lithium storage properties and hydrogen evolution reactions
Yong Yang, Shitong Wang, Jingchao Zhang, Haoyi Li, Zilong Tang and Xun Wang

A soil/Vulcan XC-72 hybrid as a highly-effective catalytic cathode for rechargeable Li–O₂ batteries
Xiaofei Hu, Xiaorui Fu and Jun Chen

Multichromophoric di-anchoring sensitizers incorporating a ruthenium complex and an organic triphenyl amine dye for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells
Pei-Yang Su, Jun-Min Liu, Xue-Lian Lin, Yi-Fan Chen, Yong- Shen, Li-Min Xiao, Dai-Bin Kuang and Cheng-Yong Su

Cation reduction and comproportionation as novel strategies to produce high voltage, halide free, carborane based electrolytes for rechargeable Mg batteries
Scott. G. McArthur, Linxiao Geng, Juchen Guo and Vincent Lavallo 

A surfactant-thermal method to prepare crystalline thioantimonate for high-performance lithium-ion batteries
Lina Nie, Yu Zhang, Wei-Wei Xiong, Teik-Thye Lim, Rong Xu, Qingyu Yan and Qichun Zhang

Multi-shelled LiMn₂O₄ hollow microspheres as superior cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries
Feng Wang, Jiangyan Wang, Hao Ren, Hongjie Tang, Ranbo Yu and Dan Wang

Electrochemical fabrication of one-dimensional porphyrinic wires on electrodes
Suzaliza Mustafar, Kuo-Hui Wu, Ryojun Toyoda, Kenji Takada, Hiroaki Maeda, Mariko Miyachi, Ryota Sakamoto and Hiroshi Nishihara

MoS₂ with an intercalation reaction as a long-life anode material for lithium ion batteries
Zhe Hu, Qiannan Liu, Weiyi Sun, Weijie Li, Zhanliang Tao, Shu-Lei Chou, Jun Chen and Shi-Xue Dou

Molecular photo-charge-separators enabling single-pigment-driven multi-electron transfer and storage leading to H₂ evolution from water
Kyoji Kitamoto, Makoto Ogawa, Gopalakrishnan Ajayakumar, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz and Ken Sakai

Cut-and-stack nanofiber paper toward fast transient energy storage
Zhen Liu, Kun Fu, Zhengyang Wang, Yujie Zhu, Jiayu Wan, Yonggang Yao, Jiaiqi Dai, Myeongseob Kim, Laura Swafford, Chunsheng Wang and Liangbing Hu

Water-soluble, heterometallic chalcogenide oligomers as building blocks for functional films
J. Y. Chane-Ching, L. Perrin, P. Puech, V. Bourdon, V. Foncrose, A. Balocchi, X. Marie and P. Lavedan

A Co₃O₄@MnO₂/Ni nanocomposite as a carbon- and binder-free cathode for rechargeable Li–O₂ batteries
Xiaopeng Han, Fangyi Cheng, Chengcheng Chen, Fujun Li and Jun Chen

Shrimp-shell derived carbon nanodots as precursors to fabricate Fe,N-doped porous graphitic carbon electrocatalysts for efficient oxygen reduction in zinc–air batteries
Xian Zhang, Rongrong Liu, Yipeng Zang, Guoqiang Liu, Shengwen Liu, Guozhong Wang, Yunxia Zhang, Haimin Zhang and Huijun Zhao

Facile synthesis of amorphous aluminum vanadate hierarchical microspheres for supercapacitors
Yan Yan, Hao Xu, Wei Guo, Qingli Huang, Mingbo Zheng, Huan Pang and Huaiguo Xue

Chemical modification of gold electrodes via non-covalent interactions
Brian R. Lydon, Alex Germann and Jenny Y. Yang

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To celebrate the international collaboration between China and Europe on advancing chemical sciences, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to announce a themed collection for Sino-European international collaborators.

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Sino-European Collaborative Research

Submission Deadline: 30^th May 2016

Guest Editor: Dr. Rong CHEN (Department of Chemical Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China)

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This collection aims to highlight the recent important work developed under mutual cooperation between the Chinese and European chemical communities, reflecting the active interaction among those international collaborators in modern inorganic chemistry research.

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is very pleased to invite Dr. Rong Chen from Department of Chemical Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China to guest edit this themed collection. Both research and review articles are welcome. If you are interested in contributing to the themed collection, please be aware the following instructions that apply to this issue:

• Each manuscript should at least include one Chinese research institute and one European institution in affiliation information.
• Invited authors should ideally submit a brief description of the international collaborative researching project or of the cooperation history between Chinese and European laboratories.

Any questions, please contact the editorial office: InorgChemFrontiersED@rsc.org.

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Emerging Investigators themed collection of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers.

This special collection is dedicated to researchers who are in the early stages of their independent academic career.

A broad range of subjects will be covered — studies falling into the scope of the journal are all welcome, especially interdisciplinary researches between inorganic chemistry and relevant areas, such as nano science, materials, energy, biochemistry, etc.

Research Articles and Reviews are considered for publication —. If you are interested in contributing a Review, please contact the Editorial Office for further information.

This Emerging Investigators collection will be a web-based thematic issue — Articles will be published in the most recent regular issue to enable timely distribution of the work; in the meanwhile, papers are being assembled as a web theme on the journal homepage to highlight their contribution to the special topic.

We hope this themed collection will feature many up-and-coming, early-career scientists whose work has the potential to influence future directions in science or result in new and exciting developments.

If you are interested in contributing to the themed collection, please mention the intention in “Comments to Editors” upon online submission.

We are delighted to announce a new themed collection to be published in 2015 on Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers:

Molecular Magnetism

Deadline: 31 May 2015

Guest Editors: Hitoshi Miyasaka (Tohoku University) and Lapo Bogani (Universität Stuttgart)

This themed collection is dedicated to highlighting recent important progresses on synthesis, theoretical investigations, property studies and potential applications of molecular-based magnets. All types of manuscripts — Research articles, Reviews and Chemistry Frontiers will be considered for publication. Submissions will be subject to normal peer review. Accepted articles will be published and included into recent journal issues without delay to permit the timely dissemination of the work.

Please note in “comments to the editors” field in the online submission system if your manuscript is dedicated to this themed collection. We look forward to your contribution!

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We are delighted to announce an exciting and high profile web theme to be published on Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers:

Crystal Engineering for Molecular Materials

Open for submissions NOW!

Submission Deadline: 30 October 2014

Guest Editors Professor Xiaoming Chen (Sun Yat-Sen University), Professor Masahiro Yamashita from (Tohoku University) and Professor Wenbin Lin (University of Chicago) welcome reviews, research articles, methods and notes in celebration of the current achievements and future perspectives of this researching field.

Every submission to this themed issue must meet the high standard of the journal via rigorous peer-review.  Accepted articles will be published and included into recent journal issues without delay to permit the timely dissemination of the work. Meanwhile, all contributions to this special topic are being assembled and presented as a web-based thematic issue on the journal webpage, in accompany with active promotions to ensure the widest possible impact of reported research.

Please note in “comments to the editor” field in the online submission system if your submission is dedicated to this themed collection. We look forward to your contribution!

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Publish with Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, benefit from rapid publication, free journal cover and free access to 2014 & 2015 content!