Archive for 2010
Hot Article: Stilbazolium organic optical crystals
06 Oct 2010
In their CrystEngComm Hot Article, O-Pil Kwon and colleagues have developed a new cation core structure, N-benzyl stilbazolium nonlinear optical chromophore with a non-polar benzyl group to achieve acentric molecular ordering in the crystalline state.
Acentric nonlinear optical N-benzyl stilbazolium crystals with high environmental stability and enhanced molecular nonlinearity in solid state
Pil-Joo Kim, Jae-Hyeok Jeong, Mojca Jazbinsek, Seong-Ji Kwon, Hoseop Yun, Jong-Taek Kim, Yoon Sup Lee, In-Hyung Baek, Fabian Rotermund, Peter Günter and O-Pil Kwon
CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00456A
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Flowery magnetic microspheres clean water
06 Oct 2010
Chinese scientists reveal an easy and effective synthetic method to obtain iron oxide microspheres to treat contaminated water.
Industrial wastewater containing toxic metal ions and organic pollutants has become a serious threat to the environment and public health. So the synthesis of three-dimensional micro and nanomaterials with the capability of absorbing undesired water contaminants in a straightforward and effective manner is a priority for environmental scientists.
Now Hongjie Zhang and colleagues at Changhun Institute of Applied Chemistry, have designed an easy method to synthesise flower-shaped Fe3O4 microspheres with magnetic properties, which can be used as absorbents to treat wastewater. Unlike previous synthetic routes, Zhang’s hydrothermal method avoids the use of surfactants and copolymers that would need to be removed from solution.
Find out more about this article in Lorena Tomas Laudo’s story here Hierarchically structured Fe3O4 microspheres: morphology control and their application in wastewater treatment
Xiyan Li, Zhenjun Si, Yongqian Lei, Xiaona Li, Jinkui Tang, Shuyan Song and Hongjie Zhang,
CrystEngComm, 2010 DOI: 10.1039/c0ce00217h
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Len MacGillivray appointed as new CrystEngComm Editorial Board Chair
05 Oct 2010
Professor Len MacGillivray
I am delighted to announce that Professor Len MacGillivray has been appointed as the new Chair of the CrystEngComm Editorial Board, from January 2011.
Based at the University of Iowa, Len, who has been a member of the Editorial Board since 2008, has research interests in the areas of molecular recognition, self assembly and supramolecular chemistry. In particular, Len’s work involves the use of template controlled synthesis in the solid state, using rigid bifunctional molecules as linear templates, to direct the formation of C-C bonds covalent bonds.
Len will become Chair of the Editorial Board in January, when Neil Champness (The University of Nottingham) ends his term as Chair. Neil has been Chair of the Editorial Board since 2007, and a member of the Editorial Board for 10 years.
We very much look forward to working with Len in his new role.
Top Ten most-read CrystEngComm articles
01 Oct 2010
Read the most-read CrystEngComm articles of August 2010, listed below:
C. Malla Reddy, G. Rama Krishna and Soumyajit Ghosh, CrystEngComm, 2010, 12, 2296-2314
DOI: 10.1039/C003466E
DOI: 10.1039/C003466E
Qinhe Pan, Qiang Chen, Wei-Chao Song, Tong-Liang Hu and Xian-He Bu, CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C002658A
DOI: 10.1039/C002658A
Joseph G. Nguyen, Kristine K. Tanabe and Seth M. Cohen, CrystEngComm, 2010, 12, 2335-2338
DOI: 10.1039/C000154F
DOI: 10.1039/C000154F
Xiao-Qiang Liang, Jiang-Tao Jia, Tao Wu, Dong-Ping Li, Lei Liu, Guang-Shan Zhu CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00329H
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00329H
Lei Hou, Wen-Juan Shi, Yao-Yu Wang, Bo Liu, Wen-Huan Huang and Qi-Zhen Shi, CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00167H
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00167H
Massimiliano Massi, Mark I. Ogden, Tomoko Radomirovic and Franca Jones, CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00263A
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00263A
Deyun Ma, Weixia Wang, Yingwei Li, Jing Li, Carole Daiguebonne, Guillaume Calvez and Olivier Guillou, CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00135J
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00135J
Di Sun, Qin-Juan Xu, Chun-Yin Ma, Na Zhang, Rong-Bin Huang and Lan-Sun Zheng, CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00017E
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00017E
Eue-Soon Jang, Jung-Hee Won, Young-Woon Kim, Xiaoyuan Chen and Jin-Ho Choy, CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C001001D
DOI: 10.1039/C001001D
Gautam R. Desiraju, CrystEngComm, 2003, 5, 466-467
DOI: 10.1039/B313552G
DOI: 10.1039/B313552G
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Renal failure culprit: growth of melamine–cyanuric acid crystals
29 Sep 2010
Daniele Musumeci and Michael D. Ward study the growth of melamine-cyanuric acid crystals using real time in situ atomic force microscopy. Read more about their research in this CrystEngComm Hot Communication which reveals that hydrophobic interactions between 2D hydrogen-bonded planar sheets play a dominant role in the crystal growth of this material, which has been shown to cause renal failure.
Elucidation of the crystal growth mechanism of melamine-cyanuric acid by using real time in situ atomic force microscopy
Daniele Musumeci and Michael D. Ward
CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/c0ce00364f
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Optimising garnet films for magneto-optical sensors
29 Sep 2010
In this Hot Article Griesbauer and colleagues attempt to deposit magneto-optical materials such as Bi3Fe5O12 onto non-garnet substrates, such readily available cheap SiO2. using an additional buffer layer of annealed Y3Fe5O12.
Mechano- and magneto-optical sensitivity of YIG buffer systems
J. Griesbauer, T. Körner, T. Wehlus, A. Heinrich, B. Stritzker, J. Simon and W. Mader
CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C003533E
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Polycrystal peacocks
29 Sep 2010
Polycrystalline patterns are complex and often difficult to distinguish by eye alone. Erica Gunn, Bart Kahr and colleagues use extinction mapping techniques to study the development of polycrystalline patterns from solution, carefully controlling the crystallization driving force. Read more about their study and check out the beautiful and mesmerising patterns in their CrystEngComm Hot Article!
Extinction mapping of polycrystalline patterns
Erica Gunn, Liana Wong, Charles W. Branham, Brian Marquardt and Bart Kahr
CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/c0ce00359j
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In the ‘metastable’ zone: crystal nucleation investigated
29 Sep 2010
Crystallization from solutions is used for the separation and purification of industrial chemicals and for controlling the shape and size of final crystalline products. The efficiency of these processes is determined by the nucleation of crystals and their development in the liquid phase, and is intimately connected with the metastable zone width of the liquid phase. In this CrystEngComm articles Keshra Sangwal investigates the metastable zone width of various systems using the polythermal method to further the understanding of these important processes.
Some features of metastable zone width of various systems determined by polythermal method
Keshra Sangwal
CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/c0ce00065e
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Smart seeding to create gold-silver alloy shell nanoparticles
29 Sep 2010
In this CrystEngComm Hot Article, Xinling Tang and Masaharu Tsuji from Kyushu University, Japan study the effects of shapes of Au cores on the growth of Ag shells using dendritic branched Au nanoparticles as Au seeds in DMF. They succeeded in the preparation of Au core Au/Ag alloy denoted as Au@Au/Ag particles.
Synthesis of Au core Au/Ag alloy shell nanoparticles using branched Au nanoparticles as seeds
Xinling Tang and Masaharu Tsuji
CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/c0ce00018c
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