This week’s CrystEngSelects

01 Nov 2010

Here is this week’s selection of advanced articles of interest to crystal engineers from across the RSC journals.

Articles are chosen from:
ChemComm,
CrystEngComm,
Dalton Transactions,
Journal of Materials Chemistry,
New Journal of Chemistry,
Nanoscale,
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.

Two luminescent enantiomorphic 3D metal–organic frameworks with 3D homochiral double helices

Qilong Zhu, Tianlu Sheng, Ruibiao Fu, Chunhong Tan, Shengmin Hu and Xintao Wu

Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02550J, Communication

Confined crystallization of polycrystalline high-magnesium calcite from compact Mg-ACC precursor tablets and its biological implications

Jun Jiang, Min-Rui Gao, Yun-Hao Qiu, Guang-Sheng Wang, Lei Liu, Guo-Bin Cai and Shu-Hong Yu

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00153H, Paper

Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Metal–Organic Frameworks

Jacek Klinowski, Filipe A. Almeida Paz, Patrícia Silva and João Rocha

Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00708K, Perspective

Science as art: self-assembly of hybrid SiO₂-coated nanocrystals

Ping Yang, Zhimin Yuan, Jie Yang, Aiyu Zhang, Yongqiang Cao, Qinghui Jiang, Ruixia Shi, Futian Liu and Xin Cheng

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00350F, Paper

A series of complexes based on biphenyl-2,5,2′,5′-tetracarboxylic acid: syntheses, crystal structures, luminescent and magnetic properties

Dan Tian, Yu Pang, Yan-Hong Zhou, Li Guan and Hong Zhang

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00281J, Paper

Synthesis of anti-reflective and hydrophobic Si nanorod arrays by colloidal lithography and reactive ion etching

K. Y. Lai, Yi-Ruei Lin, Hsin-Ping Wang and Jr-Hau He

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00168F, Paper

Tuning the porosity of lanthanide MOFs with 2,5-pyrazinedicarboxylate and the first in situ hydrothermal carboxyl transfer

Bin Cai, Ping Yang, Jing-Wei Dai and Jian-Zhong Wu

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00340A, Paper

Synthesis and characterization of single-crystalline α-MoO₃ nanofibers for enhanced Li-ion intercalation applications

Khemchand Dewangan, Nupur Nikkan Sinha, Prashant K. Sharma, Avinash C. Pandey, N. Munichandraiah and N. S. Gajbhiye

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00271B, Paper

Spontaneous crystal growth of co-crystals: the contribution of particle size reduction and convection mixing of the co-formers

Asim Y. Ibrahim, Robert T. Forbes and Nicholas Blagden

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C004371K, Paper

Synthesis, photoluminescence, catalysis and multilayer film assembly of an ethynylpyridine platinum compound

Xing Li, Mei-Qin Zha, Shui-Ying Gao, Paul J. Low, Yuan-Zhao Wu, Ning Gan and Rong Cao

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00382D, Paper

Shape controlled synthesis of palladium nanocrystals by combination of oleylamine and alkylammonium alkylcarbamate and their catalytic activity

Baoji Hu, Kunlun Ding, Tianbin Wu, Xiaosi Zhou, Honglei Fan, Tao Jiang, Qian Wang and Buxing Han

Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03485A, Communication

Novel quadridentate salen type triple-decker sandwich ytterbium complexes with near infrared luminescence

Peng-Fei Yan, Shuo Chen, Peng Chen, Ju-Wen Zhang and Guang-Ming Li

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00553C, Communication

Growth and reductive transformation of a gold shell around pyramidal cadmium selenide nanocrystals

Michaela Meyns, Neus G. Bastus, Yuxue Cai, Andreas Kornowski, Beatriz H. Juárez, Horst Weller and Christian Klinke

J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM03004J, Communication

Crystalline gas of 1,1,1-trichloroethane

Maciej Bujak, Marcin Podsiadło and Andrzej Katrusiak

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00493F, Communication

Mesoporous SiO₂ and Nb₂O₅ thin films with large spherical mesopores through self-assembly of diblock copolymers: unusual conversion to cuboidal mesopores by Nb₂O₅ crystal growth

Norihiro Suzuki, Masataka Imura, Yoshihiro Nemoto, Xiangfen Jiang and Yusuke Yamauchi

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00507J, Communication

Metal–organic frameworks based on transition-metal carboxylate clusters as secondary building units: synthesis, structures and properties

Li-Min Zhao, Zhen-Jie Zhang, Shi-Yuan Zhang, Ping Cui, Wei Shi, Bin Zhao, Peng Cheng, Dai-Zheng Liao and Shi-Ping Yan

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00315H, Paper

Two cationic metal–organic frameworks based on cadmium and α,ω-alkanedisulfonate anions and their photoluminescent properties

Honghan Fei and Scott R. J. Oliver

Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01064B, Paper

One-step synthesis, growth mechanism and photoluminescence properties of hollow GeO₂ walnuts

Xu Zou, Bingbing Liu, Quanjun Li, Zepeng Li, Bo Liu, Wei Wu, Qiang Zhao, Yongming Sui, Dongmei Li, Bo Zou, Tian Cui, Guangtian Zou and Ho-Kwang Mao

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00170H, Paper

Linear aggregation and liquid-crystalline order: comparison of Monte Carlo simulation and analytic theory

Tatiana Kuriabova, M. D. Betterton and Matthew A. Glaser

J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02355H, Paper

Insights into self-assembling nanoporous peptide and in situ reducing agent

Poulami Jana, Sibaprasad Maity and Debasish Haldar

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00143K, Paper

Size- and shape-controlled synthesis of ZnSe nanocrystals using SeO₂ as selenium precursor

Huaibin Shen, Jin Zhong Niu, Hongzhe Wang, Xiaomin Li, Lin Song Li and Xia Chen

Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00709A, Paper

Mononuclear discrete complexes and coordination polymers based on metal(II) chelidonate complexes with aromatic N,N-chelating ligands

Ana Belén Lago, Rosa Carballo, Nuria Fernández-Hermida and Ezequiel M. Vázquez-López

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00330A, Paper

Lysine-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of urchin-like ordered arrays of mesoporous Co(OH)₂ nanowires and their application in electrochemical capacitors

Changzhou Yuan, Xiaogang Zhang, Linrui Hou, Laifa Shen, Diankai Li, Fang Zhang, Chuangang Fan and Jiamao Li

J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02174A, Paper

Electrochemically assisted deposition on TiO₂ scaffold for Tissue Engineering: an apatite bio-inspired crystallization pathway

Alberto Naldoni, Alessandro Minguzzi, Alberto Vertova, Vladimiro Dal Santo, Laura Borgese and Claudia L. Bianchi

J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02446E, Paper

When a host becomes a guest—competition between decreasing hydrophobic spaces and supramolecular synthon propagation

Agata Białońska and Zbigniew Ciunik

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00388C, Paper

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