It has been an exciting year at CrystEngComm, as you’ll see with a few of the highlights we’ve picked out for you in this Christmas inspired post. There were our themed issues ‘Crystal Growth’, ‘Reactions in molecular solids and host–guest systems’, ‘Dynamic behaviour and reactivity in crystalline solids’, the online themed issue ‘Fluorine Chemistry’ and the themed issue on ‘2D Crystal Engineering’. These specialised topics between them saw the publication of over 100 articles in these exciting research areas and we owe many thanks to the authors and editors who helped make these issues the success they were.
At various conferences across the globe we awarded young crystal engineers prizes for their work including at the ‘Midwest Organic Solid-State Chemistry Symposium XXI’, USA, ‘IUCr Madrid 2011’, Spain and ‘ICCOSS XX’, India, well done to those and all the other 2011 CrystEngComm prize winners!
In May there was the opening of the CrystEngComm editorial office in China and Professor Shu-Hong Yu was appointed Associate Editor. Also this summer Nicola Pinna joined the Editorial Board. Dan Shechtman gave an insightful interview in October which is still available to read on the blog, as well several other interviews from our board members and authors. Also with Christmas looming make sure you check out December’s Crystal Clear, which looks very much like a crystal Christmas Tree!
It’s difficult to cover the entire year in one blog post so feel free to browse the CrystEngComm blog and facebook page or keep up to date with events real time by following us on twitter or signing up to e-alerts
A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at CrystEngComm
