We are delighted to welcome Professor Christian Doonan to the CrystEngComm team as one of our Associate Editors!

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.
Christian also recently guest-edited a themed issue of CrystEngComm with Christopher J. Sumby on Metal-Organic Framework Catalysis.
Browse a selection of Christian’s latest work:
Degradation of ZIF-8 in phosphate buffered saline media
Miriam de J. Velásquez-Hernández, Raffaele Ricco, Francesco Carraro, F. Ted Limpoco, Mercedes Linares-Moreau, Erich Leitner, Helmar Wiltsche, Johannes Rattenberger, Hartmuth Schröttner, Philipp Frühwirt, Eduard M. Stadler, Georg Gescheidt, Heinz Amenitsch, Christian J. Doonan and Paolo Falcaro
CrystEngComm, 2019, 21, 4538-4544
DOI: 10.1039/C9CE00757A, Paper
Carbohydrates@MOFs
Efwita Astria, Martin Thonhofer, Raffaele Ricco, Weibin Liang, Angela Chemelli, Andrew Tarzia, Karen Alt, Christoph E. Hagemeyer, Johannes Rattenberger, Hartmuth Schroettner, Tanja Wrodnigg, Heinz Amenitsch, David M. Huang, Christian J. Doonan and Paolo Falcaro
Mater. Horiz., 2019, 6, 969-977
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01611A, Communication
Influence of nanoscale structuralisation on the catalytic performance of ZIF-8: a cautionary surface catalysis study
Oliver M. Linder-Patton, Thomas J. de Prinse, Shuhei Furukawa, Stephen G. Bell, Kenji Sumida, Christian J. Doonan and Christopher J. Sumby
CrystEngComm, 2018, 20, 4926-4934
DOI: 10.1039/C8CE00746B, Paper
Study of iron oxide nanoparticle phases in graphene aerogels for oxygen reduction reaction
Ramesh Karunagaran, Campbell Coghlan, Tran Thanh Tung, Shervin Kabiri, Diana N. H. Tran, Christian J. Doonan and Dusan Losic
New J. Chem., 2017, 41, 15180-15186
DOI: 10.1039/C7NJ02979A, Paper

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We are delighted to welcome Susan Reutzel-Edens to the CrystEngComm team as an Editorial Board member






Susan Bourne is the Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cape Town. Her PhD, obtained at the University of Cape Town, was a study of organic inclusion compounds undertaken under the supervision of Professor Luigi Nassimbeni.
Professor C. Malla Reddy (Hyderabad, India, 09 Feb 1975) works in the Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata (2008 – present). He received his PhD in Crystal Engineering in 2006 from University of Hyderabad, and took up Post-Doctoral Research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (2007 – 2008). He has been an Honorary Visiting Scientist at the University of Bradford (2015 – 18), a recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Mobility Grant, the Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan (2017) and the Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, India. He is a Co-editor of Acta Crystallogr. B and has served as an Associate Editor for RSC Advances during 2015-16 as well as part of our Advisory Board here at CrystEngComm. He also served on the Local Organizing Committee of IUCr2017@Hyderabad, India.