CrystEngComm Blog

From 1st May 2011, researchers working in the area of nanocrystals will have a new option for submitting their articles to CrystEngComm.

Professor Shu-Hong Yu, based at the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei and the National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, China, has recently been appointed as a CrystEngComm Associate Editor, with his Editorial Office opening 1st May.

Associate Editor, Professor Shu-Hong Yu

Shu-Hong  studied chemistry at the Hefei University of Technology and received his first degree in 1988. He studied at the Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry (SRICI), and then moved to the University of Science and Technology of China, where he was awarded his PhD. From 1999 to 2001, he worked in Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and was later awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (2001-2002) in the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany, working with Prof. Dr. Markus Antonietti and PD Habil Dr. Helmut Cölfen. He joined the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale (HFNL) in 2003.

Currently, he leads the Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, HFNL, and also is the acting Deputy Dean of the School of Chemistry & Materials, University of Science and Technology of China.

Shu-Hong’s research interests include bio-inspired synthesis and self-assembly of advanced inorganic materials; templated-directed organization of nanoparticles; novel inorganic synthesis; the synthesis of biominerals and their applications; and the optical, electronic, magnetic, and catalytic properties of low dimensional nanostructured materials.  Find out more about Shu-Hong’s research at his website and check out some of his recent papers below:

Confined crystallization of polycrystalline high-magnesium calcite from compact Mg-ACC precursor tablets and its biological implications

Jun Jiang, Min-Rui Gao, Yun-Hao Qiu, Guang-Sheng Wang, Lei Liu, Guo-Bin Cai and Shu-Hong Yu

CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 952-956, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00153H

From (Cd₂Se₂)(pa) (pa = propylamine) hybrid precursors to various CdSe nanostructures: structural evolution and optical properties

Hong-Bin Yao, Xiao Zhang, Xiao-Han Wang, Shu-Hong Yu and Jing Li

Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 3191-3197, DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01351J

Mineralization of calcite ribbons on an Allium fistulosum L. bulb inner membrane in an ethanol–water mixed solvent under control of polyacrylic acid by a double diffusion method

Lei Liu, Bo Hu, Shao-Feng Chen, Shu-Juan Liu, Jun Jiang, Guo-Bin Cai and Shu-Hong Yu

CrystEngComm, 2010, 12, 3593-3598, DOI: 10.1039/C002697B

Controlled crystallization of hierarchical and porous calcium carbonate crystals using polypeptide type block copolymer as crystal growth modifier in a mixed solution

Xiaohui Guo, Lei Liu, Wanv Wang, Ji Zhang, Yaoyu Wang and Shu-Hong Yu

CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 2054-2061, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00202J

Hierarchical assembly of micro-/nano-building blocks: bio-inspired rigid structural functional materials

Hong-Bin Yao, Hai-Yu Fang, Xiao-Han Wang and Shu-Hong Yu

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0CS00121J

Shu-Hong joins the journal’s two existing Associate Editors, Professor Christer Aakeroy based at Kansas State University, USA and Professor Song Gao at Peking University, China.

Articles for consideration by Shu-Hong Yu can be submitted here.

I am delighted to announce that CrystEngComm has a new Associate Editor, Professor Song Gao from Peking University, China.

Song Gao is a Cheung Kong Professor, Dean of the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University, Deputy Director of Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Song has been a member of the CrystEngComm Editorial Board for the last three years in his previous role as Regional Associate Editor for China. He will be delighted to receive your papers in his new role as Associate Editor. Submit a manuscript to Song.

 Song’s research interests are magnetic ordered coordination polymers, molecular nanomagnets, molecular and crystal engineering, and multifunctional molecular materials. You can find out more about Professor Gao and his research into the mysterious world of molecular magnetism on his website. 

To celebrate Song’s appointment we have made some of his recent CrystEngComm articles FREE to read until the 22nd December! Hurry, find out more about his latest research now:

M2(N3)4(hmt)(H2O) (M = Co2+ and Ni2+, hmt = hexamethylenetetramine): mixed azide-hmt bridged 3D metal frameworks with long-range magnetic ordering
Ru-Yin Li, Zhe-Ming Wang and Song Gao
CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, 2096-2101 DOI: 10.1039/B906694M, Paper 

Four 2D metal–organic networks incorporating Cd-cluster SUBs: hydrothermal synthesis, structures and photoluminescent properties
Shuangquan Zang, Yang Su, Yi-Zhi Li, Jianguo Lin, Xianying Duan, Qingjin Meng and Song Gao
CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, 122-129 DOI: 10.1039/B806899B, Paper

Transition metal coordination frameworks with bridges of 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane-N,N′-dioxide incorporating anions of different size
Hao-Ling Sun, Zhe-Ming Wang, Song Gao and Stuart R. Batten
CrystEngComm, 2008, 10, 1796-1802 DOI: 10.1039/B810245G, Paper

Three-dimensional metal–organic frameworks constructed from bix and 1,2,4-benzenetricarboxylate
Jing Yao, Zhen-Da Lu, Yi-Zhi Li, Jian-Guo Lin, Xian-Ying Duan, Song Gao, Qing-Jin Meng and Chang-Sheng Lu
CrystEngComm, 2008, 10, 1379-1383 DOI: 10.1039/B805263H, Paper

An IUPAC task group has recently published their recommendations for the definition for the hydrogen bond.

“The hydrogen bond is an attractive interaction between a hydrogen atom from a molecule or a molecular fragment X–H in which X is more electronegative than H, and an atom or a group of atoms in the same or a different molecule, in which there is evidence of bond formation.”

The recommendations continue with a list of experimental and theoretical criteria that can be used as evidence for the presence of the hydrogen bond, and finish with characteristics that are typical of hydrogen bonded systems.

The task group membership includes Professor Gautam Desiraju (Bangalore, India), founding Editorial Board member, and current Advisory Board member of CrystEngComm.

For more information on the task group and to view the provisional recommendation see the IUPAC report.

Follow the links below to read two CrystEngComm Highlights with a focus on hydrogen bonding:

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.