CrystEngComm Blog

Here is this week’s selection of advanced articles of interest to crystal engineers from across the RSC journals.

Articles are chosen from:
 ChemComm,
CrystEngComm,
Dalton Transactions,
Journal of Materials Chemistry,
New Journal of Chemistry,
Nanoscale,
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.

Effect of electrocrystallization medium on quality, structural features, and conducting properties of single crystals of the (BEDT-TTF)₄A^I[Fe^III(C₂O₄)₃]·G family
T. G. Prokhorova, L. I. Buravov, E. B. Yagubskii, L. V. Zorina, S. S. Khasanov, S. V. Simonov, R. P. Shibaeva, A. V. Korobenko and V. N. Zverev
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00095G, Paper

Towards two-dimensional nanoporous networks: crystal engineering at the solid–liquid interface
Shengbin Lei, Kazukuni Tahara, Jinne Adisoejoso, Tanya Balandina, Yoshito Tobe and Steven De Feyter
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00282H, Highlight

Self-assembly of dilacunary building blocks into high-nuclear [Ln₁₆As₁₆W₁₆₄O₅₇₆(OH)₈(H₂O)₄₂]⁸⁰⁻ (Ln = Eu^III, Gd^III, Tb^III, Dy^III, and Ho^III) polyoxotungstates
Firasat Hussain and Greta R. Patzke
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C003489D, Paper

Two 3D coordination assemblies with same cluster configuration showing different magnetic behaviors: a ferromagnetic {[W(CN)₈Co₂(DMF)₈][NO₃]}_n and a paramagnetic {W(CN)₈Cu₂(py)₈}_n
Jun Qian, Huajian Zhao, Hongyang Wei, Jianghua Li, Jinfang Zhang, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Kunio Awaga and Chi Zhang
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00227E, Paper

Study of the mechanochemical formation and resulting properties of an archetypal MOF: Cu₃(BTC)₂ (BTC = 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate)
Wenbing Yuan, Ana Lazuen Garay, Anne Pichon, Rob Clowes, Colin D. Wood, Andrew I. Cooper and Stuart L. James
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00486C, Communication

An ultrafine nanoporous bimetallic Ag–Pd alloy with superior catalytic activity
Hong Ji, Jan Frenzel, Zhen Qi, Xiaoguang Wang, Changchun Zhao, Zhonghua Zhang and Gunther Eggeler
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00293C, Communication

Hydrothermal epitaxy of ferromagnetic cobalt doped titanium dioxide films at 120 °C
Gregory Kia Liang Goh, Kelvin Yong Seng Chan and Tao Liu
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00112K, Paper

Synthesis of Au core Au/Ag alloy shell nanoparticles using branched Au nanoparticles as seeds
Xinling Tang and Masaharu Tsuji
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00018C, Paper

A supramolecular twist to the structures of bis(polyfluorophenyl)mercurials
Glen B. Deacon, Craig M. Forsyth, Peter C. Junk, Ekaterina I. Izgorodina, Timothy J. Ness, Gerd Meyer and Ingo Pantenburg
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00258E, Paper

Surfactant-assisted hydrothermal synthesis and electrochemical properties of nanoplate-assembled 3D flower-like Cu₃V₂O₇(OH)₂·2H₂O microstructures
Xiujuan Sun, Jiawei Wang, Yan Xing, Ying Zhao, Xianchun Liu, Bo Liu and Suying Hou
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00083C, Paper

Controlled assemblies of hepta- and trideca-Co_^II clusters by a rational derivation of salicylalde schiff bases: microwave-assisted synthesis, crystal structures, ESI-MS solution analysis and magnetic properties
Lian-Qiang Wei, Bing-Wen Li, Sheng Hu and Ming-Hua Zeng
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00085J, Paper

Four new coordination polymers constructed from benzene tricarboxylic acid: synthesis, crystal structure, thermal and magnetic properties
Muhammad Arif Nadeem, Mohan Bhadbhade and John Arron Stride
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00600A, Paper

Facile synthesized nanorod structured vanadium pentoxide for high-rate lithium batteries
Anqiang Pan, Ji-Guang Zhang, Zimin Nie, Guozhong Cao, Bruce W. Arey, Guosheng Li, Shu-quan Liang and Jun Liu
J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01306D, Paper

Synthesis of bioactive class II poly(γ-glutamic acid)/silica hybrids for bone regeneration
Gowsihan Poologasundarampillai, Claudia Ionescu, Olga Tsigkou, Muthu Murugesan, Robert G. Hill, Molly M. Stevens, John V. Hanna, Mark E. Smith and Julian R. Jones
J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM00930J, Paper

Selective CO₂ and H₂ adsorption in a chiral magnesium-based metal organic framework (Mg-MOF) with open metal sites
Arijit Mallick, Subhadeep Saha, Pradip Pachfule, Sudip Roy and Rahul Banerjee
J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01125H, Paper

PbSe nanocrystal growth as nanocubes and nanorods on peptide nanotubes via different directed-assembly pathways
Menglu Shi, Wei Su and Hiroshi Matsui
Nanoscale, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00457J, Communication

Microporous polyimide networks with large surface areas and their hydrogen storage properties
Zhonggang Wang, Bufeng Zhang, Hao Yu, Lixian Sun, Chengli Jiao and Wanshuang Liu
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02489A, Communication

Rapid one-pot synthesis of LiMPO4 (M = Fe, Mn) colloidal nanocrystals by supercritical ethanol process
Dinesh Rangappa, Koji Sone, Masaki Ichihara, Tetsuichi Kudo and Itaru Honma
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03034A, Communication

Low-temperature mass production of superconducting MgB2 nanofibers from Mg(BH4)2 decomposition and recombination
Junzhi Yang, Jie Zheng, Xuanzhou Zhang, Yaoqi Li, Rong Yang, Qingrong Feng and Xingguo Li
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02745F, Communication

Here is this week’s selection of advanced articles of interest to crystal engineers from across the RSC journals.

Articles are chosen from:
 ChemComm,
CrystEngComm,
Dalton Transactions,
Journal of Materials Chemistry,
New Journal of Chemistry,
Nanoscale,
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.

Uranyl triazolate formation via an in situ Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction
Karah E. Knope and Christopher L. Cahill
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00231C, Paper

Facile on-demand oriented growth of perovskite oxide thin films: applications of Dion–Jacobson phase as seed layer
Tomohiko Nakajima, Tetsuo Tsuchiya and Toshiya Kumagai
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00220H, Paper

A facile approach to PbS nanoflowers and their shape-tunable single crystal hollow nanostructures: Morphology evolution
Yingnan Wang, Quanqin Dai, Xinyi Yang, Bo Zou, Dongmei Li, Bingbing Liu, Michael Z. Hu and Guangtian Zou
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C004459H, Paper

Self-assembly and solvent-mediated structural transformation of one-dimensional cluster-based coordination polymer
Jian-Jun Zhang, Cynthia S. Day and Abdessadek Lachgar
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C004119J, Paper

Enhanced electrochemical catalytic activity of new nickel hydroxide nanostructures with (100) facet
Xiaojun Zhang, Aixia Gu, Guangfeng Wang, Bin Fang, Qingyu Yan, Jixin Zhu, Ting Sun, Jan Ma and Huey Hoon Hng
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C003791P, Paper

Sonochemical selective synthesis of ZnO/CdS core/shell nanostructures and their optical properties
Jun Geng, Xiang-Dong Jia and Jun-Jie Zhu
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00180E, Paper

Facile synthesis of hierarchically superstructured praseodymium benzenetricarboxylate with controllable morphologies
Kai Liu, Yuhua Zheng, Guang Jia, Mei Yang, Yeju Huang and Hongpeng You
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00211A, Paper

A new family of 3D heterometallic 3d–4f organodisulfonate complexes based on the linkages of 2D [Ln(nds)(H₂O)]⁺ layers and [Cu(ina)₂]⁻ chains
Wenjing Liu, Zhaoyang Li, Ning Wang, Xiaoxu Li, Zhiqiang Wei, Shantang Yue and Yingliang Liu
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00077A, Paper

Mixed-metal complex [Fe(bipe)(Au(CN)₂)₂·MeOH] with gold clusters: a novel two-dimensional polyrotaxane net clipped by aurophilic interaction
Haitao Xu, Gergely Juhász, Kazunari Yoshizawa, Masashi Takahashi, Shinji Kanegawa and Osamu Sato
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00376J, Communication

Room temperature synthesis of zinc hydroxystannate hollow core-shell microspheres and their hydrothermal growth of hollow core-shell polyhedral microcrystals
Hai Fan, Shiyun Ai and Peng Ju
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00050G, Paper

A new shape of gold nanocrystals: singly twinned squashed dodecahedron
Dawei Wang, Yang Liu and Tianyan You
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00096E, Communication

Hydrothermal preparation and photoelectrochemical performance of size-controlled SnO₂ nanorod arrays
Ya-Li Wang, Min Guo, Mei Zhang and Xi-Dong Wang
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00201A, Communication

Unique (H₂O)₁₄ water cages with cyclic (H₂O)₄ tetramer unit trapped in 3D porous lanthanide–cyclohexanetetracarboxylate frameworks
Yong-Cong Ou, Zhuo-jia Lin and Ming-Liang Tong
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C004258G, Communication

Shape controlled synthesis of tadpole-like and heliotrope seed-like AgInS₂ nanocrystals
Xiaomin Li, Jin Zhong Niu, Huaibin Shen, Weiwei Xu, Hongzhe Wang and Lin Song Li
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00025F, Paper

Towards polymorphism control in coordination networks and metallo-organic salts
Christopher J. Adams, Amy L. Gillon, Matteo Lusi and A. Guy Orpen
CrystEngComm, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00230E, Paper

Directing semiconductor nanorod assembly into 1D or 2D supercrystals by altering the surface charge
Ajay Singh, Robert D. Gunning, Ambarish Sanyal and Kevin M. Ryan
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC01455A, Communication

A novel surfactant-free route to MnCO₃ steep rhombohedra crystals and their large-scale assembly into regular elongated patterns in a mixed solvent
Xiaochuan Duan, Jianmin Ma, Jiabiao Lian, Tongil Kim and Wenjun Zheng
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC01363C, Communication

Self-assembled organic–inorganic hybrid silica with ionic liquid framework: a novel support for the catalytic enantioselective Strecker reaction of imines using Yb(OTf)₃–pybox catalyst
Babak Karimi, Aziz Maleki, Dawood Elhamifar, James H. Clark and Andrew J. Hunt
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC01426E, Communication

Controlled production of polymer microspheres from microgel-stabilized high internal phase emulsions
Zifu Li, Xiaoling Wei and To Ngai
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02106G, Communication

Controlled growth of inorganic nanocrystals: size and surface effects of nuclei
Shuling Shen and Xun Wang
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC00900H, Feature Article

First Fe(II)-based cyano-bridged single molecule magnet [CrIIIFeII₂] with a large anisotropy
Yuan-Zhu Zhang, Bing-Wu Wang, Osamu Sato and Song Gao
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC01581D, Communication

Chromium-assisted synthesis of platinum nanocube electrocatalysts
Rameshwori Loukrakpam, Paul Chang, Jin Luo, Bin Fang, Derrick Mott, In-Tae Bae, H. Richard Naslund, Mark H. Engelhard and Chuan-Jian Zhong
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC01379J, Communication

A facile two step synthesis of novel chrysanthemum-like mesoporous silica nanoparticles for controlled pyrene release
Haijiao Zhang, Zhiyong Li, Panpan Xu, Ruofei Wu and Zheng Jiao
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC01673J, Communication

A rod packing microporous metal–organic framework with open metal sites for selective guest sorption and sensing of nitrobenzene
Zhangjing Zhang, Shengchang Xiang, Xingtang Rao, Qian Zheng, Frank R. Fronczek, Guodong Qian and Banglin Chen
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC01236J, Communication

Aqueous-phase synthesis of monodisperse plasmonic gold nanocrystals using shortened single-walled carbon nanotubes
Jin-Woo Kim, Hyung-Mo Moon, Mourad Benamara, Joshua Sakon, Gregory J. Salamo and Vladimir P. Zharov
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC00218F, Communication

Mystery of the transformation from amorphous calcium phosphate to hydroxyapatite
Haihua Pan, Xiang Yang Liu, Ruikang Tang and Hong Yao Xu
Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC00971G, Communication

Large pore phenylene-bridged mesoporous organosilica with bicontinuous cubic Iad (KIT-6) mesostructure
Wanping Guo, Freddy Kleitz, Kanghee Cho and Ryong Ryoo
J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01518K, Paper

Controlling zeolite structures and morphologies using polymer networks
Jianfeng Yao, Yi Huang and Huanting Wang
J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01003K, Highlight

Lithium storage in a metal organic framework with diamondoid topology – a case study on metal formates
Kuppan Saravanan, Mangayarkarasi Nagarathinam, Palani Balaya and Jagadese J. Vittal
J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01671C, Paper

Assembly of magnetite nanocrystals into spherical mesoporous aggregates with a 3-D wormhole-like pore structure
Byong Yong Yu and Seung-Yeop Kwak
J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01274B, Paper

Visible light responsive bismuth niobate photocatalyst: enhanced contaminant degradation and hydrogen generation
Lu Wang, Wenzhong Wang, Meng Shang, Songmei Sun, Wenzong Yin, Jia Ren and Jing Zhou
J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01669A, Paper

Layer-by-layer assembly of freestanding thin films with homogeneously distributed upconversion nanocrystals
Ying Bao, Quoc Anh N. Luu, Cuikun Lin, John M. Schloss, P. Stanley May and Chaoyang Jiang
J. Mater. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01602K, Paper

Controlled synthesis of PbS–Au nanostar–nanoparticle heterodimers and cap-like Au nanoparticles
Nana Zhao, Lianshan Li, Teng Huang and Limin Qi
Nanoscale, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00385A, Paper

Aqueous-based route toward noble metal nanocrystals: morphology-controlled synthesis and their applications
Qiang Yuan and Xun Wang
Nanoscale, 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00342E, Review

Design of 3-D europium(III)–organic frameworks based on pyridine carboxylate N-oxide and acyclic binary carboxylate: syntheses, structures, and luminescence properties
Lijuan Zhang, Donghua Xu, Yunshan Zhou and Fei Jiang
New J. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00373E, Paper

Metalla-macro-tricyclic cryptands: anion encapsulation and selective separation of sulfate via in situ crystallization
N. N. Adarsh, Derek A. Tocher, Joan Ribas and Parthasarathi Dastidar
New J. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/B9NJ00556K, Paper

The effect of the conformation of flexible carboxylate ligands on the structures of metal–organic supramolecules
Fangna Dai, Shuwen Gong, Peipei Cui, Guoqing Zhang, Xiaoliang Qiu, Fei Ye, Daofeng Sun, Zhijian Pang, Lei Zhang, Guilin Dong and Changqiao Zhang
New J. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00328J, Paper

Moisture-saturated zeolites – A new strategy for releasing nitric oxide
Feng Wei, Jia Yuan Yang, Qian Hou and Jian Hua Zhu
New J. Chem., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00445F, Paper