This week’s CrystEngSelects

09 Dec 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.

Surface oxygen triggered size change of palladium nano-crystals impedes catalytic efficacy

Jianli Zou, Scott G. Stewart, Colin L. Raston and K. Swaminathan Iyer

Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03182H, Communication

An unprecedented 2D → 3D metal–organic polyrotaxane framework constructed from cadmium and a flexible star-like ligand

Hua Wu, Hai-Yan Liu, Ying-Ying Liu, Jin Yang, Bo Liu and Jian-Fang Ma

Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC04724D, Communication

A facile synthesis of anatase TiO₂ nanosheets-based hierarchical spheres with over 90% {001} facets for dye-sensitized solar cells Weiguang Yang, Jianming Li, Yali Wang, Feng Zhu, Weimin Shi, Farong Wan and Dongsheng Xu

Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03312J, Communication

Gas and liquid phase adsorption in isostructural Cu₃[biaryltricarboxylate]₂ microporous coordination polymers

Tae-Hong Park, Katie A. Cychosz, Antek G. Wong-Foy, Anne Dailly and Adam J. Matzger

Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03482G, Communication

Synthesis of gold(I) fluoroalkyl and fluoroalkenyl-substituted phosphine complexes and factors affecting their crystal packing

Nicholas A. Barnes, Alan K. Brisdon, F. R. William Brown, Wendy I. Cross, Ian R. Crossley, Cheryl Fish, Christopher J. Herbert, Robin G. Pritchard and John E. Warren

Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01014F, Paper

Distinct structures of coordination polymers incorporating flexible triazole-based ligand: topological diversities, crystal structures and property studies

Chen Ren, Lei Hou, Bin Liu, Guo-Ping Yang, Yao-Yu Wang and Qi-Zhen Shi

Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00894J, Paper

Thermally, photochemically and electrically switchable reflection colors from self-organized chiral bent-core liquid crystals

Manoj Mathews, Rafael S. Zola, Deng-ke Yang and Quan Li

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM03479G, Paper

Ionic liquids and ionic liquid crystals of vinyl functionalized imidazolium salts

Shih-Ci Luo, Shaowen Sun, Amol R. Deorukhkar, Jung-Tang Lu, Amitabha Bhattacharyya and Ivan J. B. Lin

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02875D, Paper

Fabrication and characterization of electrodeposited antimony telluride crystalline nanowires and nanotubes

D. Pinisetty, M. Gupta, A. B. Karki, D. P. Young and R. V. Devireddy

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01969K, Paper

Discovery of two new phases of zirconium tetrakis(8-hydroxyquinolinolate): synthesis, crystal structure and their electron transporting characteristics in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs)

Poopathy Kathirgamanathan, Sivagnanasundram Surendrakumar, Juan Antipan-Lara, Seenivasagam Ravichandran, Vanga R. Reddy, Subramaniam Ganeshamurugan, Muttulingam Kumaraverl, Vincent Arkley, Alexander J. Blake and Daniel Bailey

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02644A, Paper

Amplifying fluorescence sensing based on inverse opal photonic crystal toward trace TNT detection

Heng Li, Jingxia Wang, Zelin Pan, Liying Cui, Liang Xu, Rongming Wang, Yanlin Song and Lei Jiang

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02554B, Paper

Dual [proton]/[hole] mixed valence in a molecular metal: balancing chemical activity in the solid state by tapping into a molecular hole reservoir

Youssef Lakhdar, Cécile Mézière, Leokadiya Zorina, Michel Giffard, Patrick Batail, Enric Canadell, Pascale Auban-Senzier, Claude Pasquier, Denis Jérome, Bálint Náfrádi and László Fórró

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02897E, Paper

Polymorphs of aromatic thiolato 1, 2 or 1,4-naphthoquinones

Bigyan R. Jali, Marjit W. Singh and J. B. Baruah

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00591F, Communication

Novel BaTeMo₂O₉ fine particles synthesized via a supercritical water route

Qingxin Zheng, Bo Li and Xutang Tao

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00778A, Communication

Syntheses, structures and properties of coordination polymers of cadmium(II) with 4-methyl-1,2,4-triazole-3-thiol ligand

Yun-Liang Jiang, Yu-Ling Wang, Jing-Xiang Lin, Qing-Yan Liu, Zhang-Hui Lu, Na Zhang, Jia-Jia-Wei and Li-Qin Li

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00431F, Paper

Ligand geometry-driven formation of different coordination polymers from Zn(NO₃)₂, 1,4-bpeb and phenylenediacetic acids

Dong Liu, Yu-Jie Chang and Jian-Ping Lang