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In this HOT article, scientists from Dublin, Ireland have directed their research towards integrating crystal structure analyses with computational (ab initio) modelling methods and exploring the influence and positional influence of different functional groups e.g. N/F/Cl/Br/I atoms, Me/OMe in semi-rigid drug-like molecules on inter- and intramolecular interactions, conformations and solid-state packing.

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Structural systematics and conformational analyses of a 3 × 3 isomer grid of nine N-(tolyl)pyridinecarboxamides and three chlorinated relatives
Pavle Mocilac and John F. Gallagher
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05169E

In this CrystEngComm Hot article, Co₃O₄ thin films are synthesised on MgO and MgAl₂O₄ single crystal substrates.

The authors manage to keep the growth temperature quite low while still obtaining high quality films, which will be particularly useful for device fabrication.

Read the full article to find out more about the low temperature deposition technique they used…

Strongly oriented Co3O4 thin films on MgO(100) and MgAl2O4(100) substrates by PE-CVD
Davide Barreca, Anjana Devi, Roland A. Fischer, Daniela Bekermann, Alberto Gasparotto, Marco Gavagnin, Chiara Maccato, Eugenio Tondello, Elza Bontempi, Laura E. Depero and Cinzia Sada
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05280B, Communication