We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2022.
We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and have made the selected articles free to access until 20 February 2023! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in CrystEngComm between October – December 2022.
Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!
We are delighted to share with you our latest themed issue New Talent 2022.
This issue celebrates the significant contributions from early career researchers to the field of crystal engineering.
This collection is guest edited by:
Professor Christian Doonan, University of Adelaide, Australia
Professor Kwangyeol Lee, Korea University, Korea
Browse a selection of the articles featured in the issue below:
| Fast and reversible bidirectional photomechanical response displayed by a flexible polycrystalline aggregate of a hydrazone
Poonam Gupta, Suryanarayana Allu, Pragyan J. Hazarika, Nisha R. Ray, Ashwini K. Nangia and Naba K. Nath CrystEngComm, 2022, 24, 7261-7265 |
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| Magnetic order in a metal thiocyanate perovskite-analogue
Matthew J. Cliffe, Oscar Fabelo and Laura Cañadillas-Delgado CrystEngComm, 2022, 24, 7250-7254 |
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| App-based quantification of crystal phases and amorphous content in ZIF biocomposites
Michael R. Hafner, Laura Villanova and Francesco Carraro CrystEngComm, 2022, 24, 7266-7271 |
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| Three-dimensional Cd(II) porphyrin metal–organic frameworks for the colorimetric sensing of Electron donors
Hui Min Tay, Emily J. Goddard and Carol Hua CrystEngComm, 2022,24, 7277-7282 |
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| Hydrogen and halogen bond synergy in the self-assembly of 3,5-dihalo-tyrosines: structural and theoretical insights
Lorenzo Sori, Andrea Pizzi, Nicola Demitri, Giancarlo Terraneo, Antonio Frontera and Pierangelo Metrangolo CrystEngComm, 2022,24, 7255-7260 |
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We hope you enjoy these articles and the rest in the collection
We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2022.
We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and have made the selected articles free to access until 18 November 2022! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in CrystEngComm between July – September 2022.
Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!
Following the Editor’s collection on Computer Aided Solid Form Design published in 2020, we are delighted to share with you a further, recently commissioned collection of articles also focusing on Computer Aided Solid Form Design, again guest edited by Editorial Board Member Susan Reutzel-Edens, The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, UK.
These articles are free to access until February 28th 2022 and we hope you enjoy reading them.
Selected articles:
Crystal structure prediction of energetic materials and a twisted arene with Genarris and GAtor
Imanuel Bier, Dana O’Connor, Yun-Ting Hsieh, Wen Wen, Anna M. Hiszpanski, T. Yong-Jin Han and Noa Marom
CrystEngComm, 2021, 23, 6023-6038. DOI: 10.1039/ D1CE00745A
First global analysis of the GSK database of small molecule crystal structures
Leen N. Kalash, Jason C. Cole, Royston C. B. Copley, Colin M. Edge, Alexandru A. Moldovan, Ghazala Sadiq and Cheryl L. Doherty
CrystEngComm, 2021, 23, 5430-5442. DOI: 10.1039/ D1CE00665G
The trimorphism of 3-hydroxybenzoic acid: an experimental and computational study
Doris E. Braun
CrystEngComm, 2021, 23, 2513-2519. DOI: 10.1039/ D1CE00159K
Meet the Editor
Susan Reutzel-Edens was a senior research advisor in Small Molecule Design & Development at Eli Lilly and Company and adjunct professor at Purdue University. She earned her PhD at the University of Minnesota (1991) under the direction of the late Professor Margaret C. Etter. After, she joined Eli Lilly where she founded the solid form design programme. In 2021, she joined the CCDC as Head of Science.
For two decades she led a team of cross-functional scientists charged with finding commercially-viable crystalline forms for small-molecule drug products. She has contributed to the development of more than 150 compounds, is a named inventor on 12 US patents, and has published over 50 papers and book chapters on key aspects of solid form development.
Susan’s research interests include crystal polymorphism, materials design and engineering, crystal nucleation and growth, structure-property relationships, crystal structure prediction and digital design of drug products. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018 and currently serves on the CrystEngComm Editorial Board. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Crystal Growth & Design and Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
About CrystEngComm
Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and with a truly international Editorial Board, CrystEngComm is the forum for the design and understanding of crystalline materials. We welcome studies on the investigation of molecular behaviour within crystals, control of nucleation and crystal growth, engineering of crystal structures, and construction of crystalline materials with tuneable properties and functions.
We invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm and give your work the global visibility it deserves.
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We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2021.
We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and have made the selected articles free to access until 18 February 2022! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in CrystEngComm between October – December 2021.
Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!
We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Rare Earth Materials handpicked by Associate Editor, Dongfeng Xue, Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, China
Rare earth materials play a key role in many practical applications such as catalysts, lasers, luminescence, magnetism, and sensors, which are of great interest to the community. Crystallisation involves two continuous stages (including nucleation and crystal growth) when preparing rare earth materials, therefore, crystal engineering strategies may stimulate much more innovative ideas when using rare earth elements as powerful functional sources or modifiers in the scale of the whole system. Rare earth elements have f-orbitals and f-electrons that possess specific coordination abilities with a wide range of coordination numbers from 2 to 16, which provide many opportunities to create novel structures and functions.
These articles are all free to access until January 31st, 2022 and we hope you enjoy reading them.
We also invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm to give your work the global visibility it deserves.
Selected articles:
| Trends in rare earth thiophosphate syntheses: Rb3Ln(PS4)2 (Ln = La, Ce, Pr), Rb3−xNaxLn(PS4)2 (Ln = Ce, Pr; x = 0.50, 0.55), and RbEuPS4 obtained by molten flux crystal growth
Logan S. Breton, Mark D. Smith and Hans-Conrad zur Loye |
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| From [B6O13]8− to [GaB5O13]8− to [Ga{B5O9(OH)}{BO(OH)2}]2−: synthesis, structure and nonlinear optical properties of new metal borates
Qi-Ming Qiu and Guo-Yu Yang |
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| Bridgman growth and characterization of a HoCa4O(BO3)3 crystal
Xinchao He, Zhigang Sun, Xiaoniu Tu, Sheng Wang, Kainan Xiong, Hongbing Chen, Xiaoyan Zhang, Liming Shen and Yanqing Zheng CrystEngComm, 2021, 23, 4833-4839 |
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Meet the Editor
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Dongfeng Xue is a Professor at the Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He received his PhD in inorganic chemistry at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, in 1998. Following postdoctoral studies at the Universität Osnabrück, University of Ottawa and the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, he was promoted to full professor in 2001 at Dalian University of Technology, China. In 2011, he returned to Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry to assume his professorship in materials chemistry, as the director of State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization during 2015-2019. In 2020, he moved to Shandong University as the director of State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials. In 2021, he created Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology. His research interests focus on multiscale crystallization of inorganic matter for energy and optical applications. He has published more than 500 papers and book chapters, and holds around 20 patents. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Corresponding Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EAASH, Paris). |
About CrystEngComm
Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and with a truly international Editorial Board, CrystEngComm is the forum for the design and understanding of crystalline materials. We welcome studies on the investigation of molecular behaviour within crystals, control of nucleation and crystal growth, engineering of crystal structures, and construction of crystalline materials with tuneable properties and functions.
To keep up to date with the latest articles and other journal news, sign up to the e-alerts.
We are delighted to share with you our latest themed collection Crystal Growth of Nanomaterials. This themed issue is focused on recent advances in the understanding and control of crystal growth mechanisms and processes of nanomaterials and was guest edited by Professor Dongfeng Xue, Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Professor Georg Garnweitner, Institute for Particle Technology and Laboratory for Emerging Nanometrology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany and Professor Kwangyeol Lee, Department of Chemistry, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Korea University, Republic of Korea.
Selected articles from the issue:
| Colloidal chemical bottom-up synthesis routes of pnictogen (As, Sb, Bi) nanostructures with tailored properties and applications: a summary of the state of the art and main insights Stefanos Mourdikoudis and Zdeněk Sofer https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE01766C |
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| Surface-directed ZnGa2O4 and β-Ga2O3 nanofins coated with a non-polar GaN shell based on the Kirkendall effect Babak Nikoobakht, Aaron C. Johnston-Peck, David Laleyan, Ping Wang and Zetian Mi https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CE00744K |
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| Spin crossover crystalline materials engineered via single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformations Shufang Xue, Yunnan Guo and Yann Garcia https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CE00234A |
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About CrystEngComm
Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and with a truly international Editorial Board, CrystEngComm is the forum for the design and understanding of crystalline materials. We welcome studies on the investigation of molecular behaviour within crystals, control of nucleation and crystal growth, engineering of crystal structures, and construction of crystalline materials with tuneable properties and functions.
We invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm and give your work the global visibility it deserves.
To keep up to date with the latest articles and other journal news, sign up to the e-alerts.
We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Imperfect nanocrystals for perfect catalysis handpicked by Associate Editor, Kwangyeol Lee, Korea University, Korea.
Vacancies, dopants, and defects are synonymous with imperfect atom ordering in crystalline materials. While dopants have been extensively exploited to fine-tune the material properties of semiconductors, the relevance of atom vacancies and defects to the activity and stability of nanoparticle-based catalysts has been recognized only recently. Intentional disturbance in the atom ordering in nanocatalysts has led to the development of nanocatalysts with exceptional catalytic activity and stability. However, the ability for controlled introduction of defects and vacancies to the desired locations and amounts, while maintaining the nanoparticle material phase is only at the fledgling stage, not to mention our understanding of the true origin of the superb catalytic performance of them. This selection of articles would point to the importance of imperfect nanocrystals to the development of perfect nanocatalysts.
These articles are all free to access until September 30th, 2021 and we hope you enjoy reading them.
We also invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm to give your work the global visibility it deserves.
Selected articles:
| Recent advances in transition metal based compound catalysts for water splitting from the perspective of crystal engineering Min Ju, Xiaoting Wang, Xia Long and Shihe Yang CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 1531-1540 |
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| Cu-Deficient plasmonic Cu2−xS nanocrystals induced tunable photocatalytic activities Xiao Shao, Tianyong Zhang, Bin Li, Yue Wu, Xiaoyuan Ma, Jingchao Wang and Shuang Jiang CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 678-685 |
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| Few-layered CuInP2S6 nanosheet with sulfur vacancy boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution Peng Yu, Fengmei Wang, Jun Meng, Tofik Ahmed Shifa, Marshet Getaye Sendeku, Ju Fang, Shuxian Li, Zhongzhou Cheng, Xiaoding Lou and Jun He CrystEngComm, 2021,23, 591-598 |
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Meet the Editor
Kwangyeol Lee is Professor of chemistry at Korea University. He graduated from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (1992) and obtained a PhD degree (1997) in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign under the supervision of Professor John R. Shapley. After fulfilling his Korean military obligations he joined Korea University in 2003 as an Assistant Professor. During his independent research career, he has studied nanocrystal growth, phase conversions in nanoscale as well as nanoparticle applications. He has contributed over 180 papers to the fields of Organometallic Chemistry and Nanochemistry. His current research efforts are focused on the development of synthetic methodologies for nanoscale materials and the development of nanotechnologies to support the environment by creating sustainable energy. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Lectureship Award (2007, The Chemical Society of Japan), Wiley-KCS Young Scholar Award (2009, The Korean Chemical Society) and the Excellent Research Award (2019, Inorganic Chemistry Division of The Korean Chemical Society).
About CrystEngComm
Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and with a truly international Editorial Board, CrystEngComm is the forum for the design and understanding of crystalline materials. We welcome studies on the investigation of molecular behaviour within crystals, control of nucleation and crystal growth, engineering of crystal structures, and construction of crystalline materials with tuneable properties and functions.
To keep up to date with the latest articles and other journal news, sign up to the e-alerts.
We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Halogen Bonding in Crystal Engineering, handpicked by Chair of the Editorial Board, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
The halogen bond is the attractive interaction between an electrophilic region associated with a halogen atom in a molecular entity and a nucleophilic region in another, or the same, molecular entity. Since its rediscovery in the early 2000s, the field of halogen bonding has boomed, becoming one of the most used chemical interactions in crystal engineering. This Editor’s collection highlights recent contributions to CrystEngComm that are broadly focused on halogen bonding in crystal engineering. The selection of articles showcases how the field has developed from the design of crystal structures to the development of functional materials. The wide range of halogen bond applications covers phosphorescent materials, pharmaceutical co-crystals and peptides, organic electronics, coordination frameworks, where the halogen bonds either drive the formation of the network, or stabilize it as a secondary interaction, or is used to bind hosted guests. Halogen bonding has become a mature field of research but its rediscovery has sparked interest towards other lesser known interactions, which are anticipated to become more prominent in the future, such as chalcogen, pnictogen, and tetrel bonds.
All of these articles are free to access until June 30th 2021 and we hope you enjoy reading them.
We also invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm to give your work the global visibility it deserves.
Selected articles:
| Halogen bonded metal bis(dithiolene) 2D frameworks Hadi Hachem, Olivier Jeannin, Marc Fourmigué, Frédéric Barrière and Dominique Lorcy CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 3579-3587 |
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| Two-dimensional halogen-bonded organic frameworks based on the tetrabromobenzene-1,4-dicarboxylic acid building molecule Nucharee Chongboriboon, Kodchakorn Samakun, Thitirat Inprasit, Filip Kielar, Winya Dungkaew, Lawrence W.-Y. Wong, Herman H.-Y. Sung, Dragan B. Ninković, Snežana D. Zarić and Kittipong Chainok CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 24-34 |
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| Halogen bonding in 5-iodo-1-arylpyrazoles investigated in the solid state and predicted by solution 13C-NMR spectroscopy Marcel Mirel Popa, Isabela Costinela Man, Constantin Draghici, Sergiu Shova, Mino R. Caira, Florea Dumitrascu and Denisa Dumitrescu CrystEngComm, 2019, 7085-7093 |
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Meet the Editor
Pierangelo Metrangolo (Lecce, 16 April 1972) has been a full Professor at the Politecnico di Milano since 2011. He also holds a part-time position at the VTT-Technical Research Centre of Finland and from 2015 has been a visiting professor at the Aalto University, Finland. He is co-editor of Acta Crystallographica, section B and is Chair of the Editorial Board of CrystEngComm and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Crystal Growth and Design.
He is author of 185 publications with 9266 citations (h-index: 49), 10 chapters in international books and holds 11 patents. He has given 45 invited lectures at national and international meetings and 26 invited seminars at universities and research institutes. He is currently Titular Member of the Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division of the IUPAC. Since 2013 he is the holder of a European Research Council grant to carry with the project “FOLDHALO – Folding with Halogen Bonding”.
About CrystEngComm
Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and with a truly international Editorial Board, CrystEngComm is the forum for the design and understanding of crystalline materials. We welcome studies on the investigation of molecular behaviour within crystals, control of nucleation and crystal growth, engineering of crystal structures, and construction of crystalline materials with tuneable properties and functions.
To keep up to date with the latest articles and other journal news, sign up to the e-alerts.
We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2021.
We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and have made the selected articles free to access until 24 May 2021! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in CrystEngComm between January – March 2021.
Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!
