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