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We are delighted to announce a CrystEngComm themed issue to be published in 2021

We are delighted to announce a CrystEngComm themed issue to be published in 2021:

 

Crystal Growth of Nanomaterials:

Guest Editors: Professor Dongfeng Xue (Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of CAS, China),  Professor Dr Georg Garnweitner (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) and Professor Kwangyeol Lee (Korea University, Korea).

Deadline: 31st May 2021

Does your research fit into this subject area? If so, we would welcome your contribution. For further details on issue scope and on how to submit, see below:

 

 

 

Issue scope

The field of nanomaterials continues to be highly dynamic, with more and more complex products being synthesized in highly defined form. For many applications, crystalline materials with tailored properties are desired, necessitating an adjustment of size or morphology. It is imperative to understand the growth mechanisms and processes of these materials, which enables their facile tailoring by thermodynamic and kinetic control. For many systems, a host of synthesis strategies have been reported, but the actual growth processes and mechanisms remain elusive.

Therefore, in this themed issue, we intend to specifically shed a light on recent advances on the understanding and control of crystal growth mechanisms and processes of nanomaterials. Thereby, all kinds of materials as well as all possible synthesis strategies and growth theories, both in the liquid phase or gas phase, at room temperature or high temperatures, are covered.

How to submit

All types of manuscript – communications, full papers and highlights, will be considered for publication. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes as necessary, and inclusion in the themed issue will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. Please indicate in your submission that you are submitting to the themed issue.

 

Interested in submitting a paper? Please contact us for more information

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Read our Editors’ Collection: Bioapplications of MOFs

We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Bioapplications of MOFs, handpicked by Associate Editor, Professor Christian Doonan, The University of Adelaide, Australia.

All of these articles are free to access until March 31st, 2021 and we hope you enjoy reading them.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm and give your work the global visibility it deserves.

Submit your research now

Selected articles:

Mechanochemical approaches towards the in situ confinement of 5-FU anti-cancer drug within MIL-100 (Fe) metal–organic framework
Barbara E. Souza and Jin-Chong Tan
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 4526-4530

Fabrication of a dual-emitting RhB@Zn-1 composite as a recyclable luminescent sensor for sensitive detection of nitrofuran antibiotics
Qian-Qian Tu, Ling-Ling Ren, Ai-Ling Cheng and  En-Qing Gao
CrystEngComm, 2021,23, 629-637

Synthesis of fluorescent MOFs: live-cell imaging and sensing of a herbicide
Aurobinda Mohanty, Udai P. Singh, R. J. Butcher, Neeladrisingha Das and  Partha Roy
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 4468-4477

Read the full collection here

Meet the Editor

Christian Doonan is Professor of chemistry at the University of Adelaide. He received his PhD at the University of Melbourne and carried out post-doctoral work with Professor Omar Yaghi at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research group focuses on the design and synthesis of Metal-organic Framework materials for application to biotechnology and catalysis.

Christian is a member of the international MOF commission and his research has been recognised through several awards including, an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, a distinguished lectureship award from the Chemical Society of Japan and a Double Hundred Talent Professorship at Qingdao University.

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HOT Articles – Online and free to access now

CrystEngComm

We have updated our reviewer recommend ‘HOT articles’ for 2020.

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and have made the selected articles free to access until 18 February 2021! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in CrystEngComm between October – December 2020.

Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!

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Read our Editors’ Collection: MOF based catalysts for water splitting and CO2 reduction

We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Metal Organic Framework based catalysts for water splitting and CO2 reduction, handpicked by Editorial Board Member Professor Tong-Bu Lu, Tianjin University of Technology, China.

All of these articles are free to access until December 31st, 2020 and we hope you enjoy reading them.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm and give your work the global visibility it deserves.

Submit your research now

Selected articles:

Covalently anchoring cobalt phthalocyanine on zeolitic imidazolate frameworks for efficient carbon dioxide electroreduction
Zhongjie Yang, Xiaofei Zhang, Chang Long, Shuhao Yan, Yanan Shi, Jianyu Han, Jing Zhang, Pengfei An, Lin Chang and Zhiyong Tang
CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 1619-1624.

Polymorphs of a copper coordination compound: interlinking active sites enhance the electrocatalytic activity of the coordination polymer compared to the coordination complex
Pandi Muthukumar, Mehboobali Pannipara, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi, Dohyun Moon and Savarimuthu Philip Anthony
CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 425-429.

Understanding metal–organic frameworks for photocatalytic solar fuel production
J. G. Santaclara, F. Kapteijn, J. Gascon and M. A. van der Veen
CrystEngComm, 2017, 19, 4118-4125.

Read the full collection here

Meet the Editor

Tong-Bu Lu was born in 1964. He graduated in Chemistry from Lanzhou University in 1993, and then moved to Sun Yat-Sen University as a Postdoc. joining the Faculty and then becoming Professor of Chemistry in 2000. He moved to Tianjing University of Technology in 2016. He worked as a postdoc. in F. Albert Cotton’s group at Texas A&M University in 1998 and 2002. His research interests focus on crystal engineering, including macrocyclic chemistry, MOFs and pharmaceutical polymorphs and co-crystals. He currently focuses on the study on homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for water splitting and CO2 reduction. He obtained the National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth Scholar award in 2006. He has over 200 scientific publications and an h-index of 43. He is currently a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), is on the Editorial Board of CrystEngComm, the Editorial Advisory Board of Current Green Chemistry and Current Pharmaceutical Design and is a co-editor of Acta Crystallographica Section C.

 

 

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CrystEngComm 2020 publications in the field of Crystal Growth

We are pleased to let you know that we have collated all the articles published in CrystEngComm this year to date, in the field of Crystal Growth, into one collection. Please enjoy browsing the full collection here:

https://rsc.li/ce-crystalgrowth

A few select examples of the articles in this collection are shown below and are all free to access until September 30th 2020.

Chemical bath deposition of transparent ZnO films incorporated with erythrosine B molecules and their synergetic electro/photochromic properties
Ryousuke Yumiyama, Daiki Hyakutake, Manabu Hagiwara, Eiji Hosono, Hirofumi Matsuda and Shinobu Fujihara
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 2447-2453
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00167H
The different magnetic relaxation behaviors in [Fe(CN)6]3− or [Co(CN)6]3− bridged 3d–4f heterometallic compounds
Ruirui Wang, Haili Wang, Juan Wang, Feifei Bai, Yue Ma, Licun Li, Qinglun Wang, Bin Zhao and Peng Cheng
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 2998-3004
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00039F
New pronounced progress in the synthesis of group 5 polyoxometalates
Joanna Dopta, Lisa K. Mahnke and Wolfgang Bensch
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3254-3268
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00315H
Tailoring the preferable orientation relationship and shape of α-FeSi2 nanocrystals on Si(001): the impact of gold and the Si/Fe flux ratio, and the origin of α/Si boundaries
Ivan A. Tarasov, Tatiana E. Smolyarova, Ivan V. Nemtsev, Ivan A. Yakovlev, Mikhail N. Volochaev, Leonid A. Solovyov, Sergey N. Varnakov and Sergey G. Ovchinnikov
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3943-3955
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00399A
Recent experimental explorations of non-classical nucleation
Biao Jin, Zhaoming Liu and Ruikang Tang
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 4057-4073
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00480D

 

We would be delighted if you decided to submit your primary research  to CrystEngComm! – CrystEngComm is the forum for the design and understanding of crystalline materials. We welcome hypothesis driven studies on the exploration/investigation of molecular behaviour within crystals, the control of nucleation and crystal growth, the engineering of crystal structures, and the construction of crystalline materials with desired properties. See our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

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Congratulations to the CrystEngComm Poster Prize Winner at ACA 70th American Crystallographic Association

The ACA 70th American Crystallographic Association meeting took place virtually on Sunday, 2nd to Friday, 7th August 2020. This year’s annual meeting included a special COVID-19 session, plenary lectures from 2020 ACA Award winners, invited and contributed talks, poster presentations, and practical workshops.  The conference featured the latest research results and instructional presentations, across topics of interest to all scientists who need to understand the arrangement of atoms in matter. Scientists interested in molecular and materials structure, with specialties in biology, chemistry, geosciences, materials science and more participated to exchange scientific research findings and technique know-how.

CrystEngComm sponsored a poster prize and congratulations go to the winner David Villaman, Pontifica Universidad Catolica Valparaiso, Chile “Structural Studies of Manganese(III) Complex with Spin-Crossover and Thermochromic Properties”

Congratulations also go to the CrystEngComm Poster Prize Honorable Mention, Lana Hiscock, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Controlling π-Stacking Interactions in a Series of Novel Heteroacene Derivatives”

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CrystEngComm 2020 publications in the fields of Supramolecular & Polymorphism

We are pleased to let you know that we have collated all the articles published in CrystEngComm this year to date, in the fields of Supramolecular chemistry and Polymorphism, into one collection. Please enjoy browsing the full collection here:

https://rsc.li/ce-supra-poly

A few select examples of the articles in this collection are shown below and are all free to access until September 30th 2020.

Supramolecular association of M2+π induced by different electrostatic properties using naphthyl substituted β-diketonate complexes (metal = Cu, Pd, Pt)
Takumi Kusakawa, Takayuki Goto and Akiko Hori
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3090-3094
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00416B
The axial chirality hidden in vitamin D and its application in cocrystal prediction
Mengfei Guo, Zaiyong Zhang, Zhaoqiang Chen, Qiaoce Ding, Liye Lu, Qi Zhang, Jian-Rong Wang and Xuefeng Mei
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3095-3099
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00229A
Enhanced near-infrared luminescence in Ln2Cd2 (Ln = Nd, Yb) heterotetranuclear complexes
Yue Qi, Ou Sun, Yanyan Zhou, Yuan Yao, Zhenyu Cheng, Ting Gao and Hongfeng Li
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3287-3293
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00341G
Relevant π-hole tetrel bonding interactions in ethyl 2-triazolyl-2-oxoacetate derivatives: Hirshfeld surface analysis and DFT calculations
Muhammad Naeem Ahmed, Khawaja Ansar Yasin, Shahid Aziz, Saba Urooge Khan, Muhammad Nawaz Tahir, Diego Mauricio Gil and Antonio Frontera
CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 3567-3578
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00335B
Halogen bonded metal bis(dithiolene) 2D frameworks
Hadi Hachem, Olivier Jeannin, Marc Fourmigué, Frédéric Barrière and Dominique Lorcy
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3579-3587
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00512F

 

We would be delighted if you decided to submit your primary research  to CrystEngComm! – CrystEngComm is the forum for the design and understanding of crystalline materials. We welcome hypothesis driven studies on the exploration/investigation of molecular behaviour within crystals, the control of nucleation and crystal growth, the engineering of crystal structures, and the construction of crystalline materials with desired properties. See our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

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CrystEngComm 2020 publications in the field of Nanomaterials

We are pleased to let you know that we have collated all the articles published in CrystEngComm this year to date, in the field of Nanomaterials, into one collection. Please enjoy browsing the full collection here:

https://rsc.li/ce-nano

A few select examples of the articles in this collection are shown below and are all free to access until September 30th 2020.

Defective crystal plane-oriented induced lattice polarization for the photocatalytic enhancement of ZnO
Xiaojuan Bai, Boxuan Sun, Xuyu Wang, Tianshuo Zhang, Qiang Hao, Bing-Jie Ni, Ruilong Zong, Ziyang Zhang, Xiaoran Zhang and Haiyan Li
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 2709-2717
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CE01966A
Designed synthesis of unique ZnS@CdS@Cd0.5Zn0.5S-MoS2 hollow nanospheres for efficient visible-light-driven H2 evolution
Bowen Sun, Hui Wang, Jiakun Wu, Yanling Geng, Jixiang Xu, Yaowei Wang, Yanyan Li, Haifeng Lin and Lei Wang
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 2743-2755
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00064G
Lanthanide-doped bismuth-based fluoride nanoparticles: controlled synthesis and ratiometric temperature sensing
Pengpeng Lei, Ran An, Chengyu Li, Jing Feng and Hongjie Zhang
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3432-3438
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00435A
MIL-88A@polyoxometalate microrods as an advanced anode for high-performance lithium ion batteries
Xiangchen Zhao, Guiling Niu, Hongxun Yang, Jiaojiao Ma, Mengfei Sun, Minghang Xu, Weiwei Xiong, Tongyi Yang, Lizhuang Chen and Changhua Wang
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3588-3597
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00197J
Controlled synthesis of three dimensional hierarchical graphene nanostructures from metal complexes as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries
Xiuli Li, Feng Zhang, Ban Fei, Yu Song, Bin Zhai and Xiuying Wang
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3608-3617
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00492H

 

We would be delighted if you decided to submit your primary research  to CrystEngComm! – CrystEngComm is the forum for the design and understanding of crystalline materials. We welcome hypothesis driven studies on the exploration/investigation of molecular behaviour within crystals, the control of nucleation and crystal growth, the engineering of crystal structures, and the construction of crystalline materials with desired properties. See our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

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Read Our Editor’s Collection: Zirconium based MOFs for catalysis

We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Zirconium based MOFs for catalysis, handpicked by Editorial Board Member Omar K. Farha, Northwestern University, USA.

These articles are free to access until September 30th, 2020 and we hope you enjoy reading them.

We are very pleased to invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm and give your work the global visibility it deserves.

Submit your research now

Selected articles:

Single crystal structure and photocatalytic behavior of grafted uranyl on the Zr-node of a pyrene-based metal–organic framework
Julia G. Knapp, Xuan Zhang, Tatyana Elkin, Laura E. Wolfsberg, Sylvia L. Hanna, Florencia A. Son, Brian L. Scott and Omar K. Farha
CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 2097-2102

Ferrocenecarboxylic acid: a functional modulator for UiO-66 synthesis and incorporation of Pd nanoparticles
Zheng Deng, Xinsheng Peng and Yu-Jia Zeng
CrystEngComm, 2019, 21, 1772-1779

Synthesis, characterization, and post-synthetic modification of a micro/mesoporous zirconium–tricarboxylate metal–organic framework: towards the addition of acid active sites
Carolina Ardila-Suárez, Ana M. Díaz-Lasprilla, Laura A. Díaz-Vaca, Perla B. Balbuena, Víctor G. Baldovino-Medrano and Gustavo E. Ramírez-Caballero
CrystEngComm, 2019, 21, 3014-3030

Read the full collection here

Meet the Editor

Omar K. Farha is an associate professor of chemistry at Northwestern University, Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University, president of NuMat Technologies, and Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. His research accomplishments have been recognized by several awards and honours including the Royal Society of Chemistry “Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Early Career” Award; the American Chemical society “The Satinder Ahuja Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science; and an award established by the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in his honour: the Omar Farha Award for Research Leadership “awarded for stewardship, cooperation and leadership in the finest pursuit of research in chemistry” and given annually to an outstanding research scientist working in the department. His current research spans diverse areas of chemistry and materials science ranging from energy to defence related challenges. Specifically, his research focuses on the rational design of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous-organic polymers for sensing, catalysis, storage, separations and light harvesting. Professor Farha has more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, holds 13 patents, and has been named a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thomson Reuters in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

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CrystEngComm 2020 publications in the field of Crystal Engineering Techniques

We are pleased  to let you know that we have collated all the articles published in CrystEngComm this year to date, in the field of Crystal Engineering Techniques, into one collection. Please enjoy browsing the full collection here:

https://rsc.li/crystengtech

A few select examples of the articles in this collection are shown below and are all free to access until September 30th 2020.

Phase transitions and photoluminescence switching in hybrid antimony(III) and bismuth(III) halides
Nannan Shen, Zeping Wang, Jiance Jin, Liaokuo Gong, Zhizhuan Zhang and Xiaoying Huang
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3395-3405
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00057D
Doping of metal-free molecular perovskite with hexamethylenetetramine to create non-centrosymmetric defects
Hagino Morita, Ryo Tsunashima, Sadafumi Nishihara and Tomoyuki Akutagawa
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 2279-2282
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00173B
Mesoporogen-free synthesis of hierarchical HZSM-5 for LDPE catalytic cracking
Yunhao Zang, Jinying Wang, Jianfeng Gu, Jiangying Qu and Feng Gao
CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 3598-3607
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00255K
Achievement of enhanced solubility and improved optics in molecular complexes based on a sulfonate–pyridinium supramolecular synthon
Ishtiyaq Ahmad, Arshid A. Ganie and Aijaz A. Dar
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3933-3942
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00346H
Substituent effects on the crystallization mechanisms of 7-chloro-4-substituted-quinolines
João P. P. Copetti, Paulo R. S. Salbego, Tainára Orlando, Jéssica M. L. Rosa, Gabriela F. Fiss, João P. G. de Oliveira, Mário L. A. A. Vasconcellos, Nilo Zanatta, Helio G. Bonacorso and Marcos A. P. Martins
CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 4094-4107
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CE00214C

We would be delighted if you decided to submit your primary research  to CrystEngComm! – CrystEngComm is the forum for the design and understanding of crystalline materials. We welcome hypothesis driven studies on the exploration/investigation of molecular behaviour within crystals, the control of nucleation and crystal growth, the engineering of crystal structures, and the construction of crystalline materials with desired properties. See our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

 

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