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Here is July’s batch of HOT articles – remember, these are free to access for 4 weeks only!

Our HOT articles have also been compiled into a collection and are available for viewing on our website.

Water crystallization to create ice spacers between graphene oxide sheets for highly electroactive graphene paper
Kunfeng Chen, Fei Liu, Shuyan Song and Dongfeng Xue
CrystEngComm, 2014, 16, 7771-7776
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE01030B

Free to access until 20^th August 2014

Efficient solvent-controlled crystallization of pure polymorphs of 1-nitro-4-(4-nitrophenylmethylthio)benzene
Chong-Qing Wan, Ai-Min Li, Shaeel A. Al-Thabaiti, El-Sayed H. El-Mosslamy and Thomas C. W. Mak
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00753K

Free to access until 13^th August 2014

Synthesis of Cu_2−xS nanocrystals induced by foreign metal ions: phase and morphology transformation and localized surface plasmon resonance
Haihang Ye, Aiwei Tang, Chunhe Yang, Kai Li, Yanbing Hou and   Feng Teng
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00945B

Free to access until 13^th August 2014

Orthogonal H-bonding synthons, actual and virtual structures in molecular crystals: a case study
Roberto Centore, Mauro Causà, Francesca Cerciello, Fabio Capone and Sandra Fusco
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00956H

Free to access until 7^th August 2014

Evolution of ZnO microstructures from hexagonal disk to prismoid, prism and pyramid and their crystal facet-dependent gas sensing properties
Nan Qin, Qun Xiang, Hongbin Zhao, Jincang Zhang and Jiaqiang Xu
CrystEngComm, 2014, 16, 7062-7073
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00637B

Free to access until 4^th August 2014

Bulk growth and nonlinear optical properties of thulium calcium oxyborate single crystals
Yanqing Liu, Fapeng Yu, Zhengping Wang, Shuai Hou, Lei Yang, Xinguang Xu and Xian Zhao
CrystEngComm, 2014, 16, 7141-7148
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00869C   

Free to access until 4^th August 2014

Take a look at our HOT articles for the month of June and let us know your thoughts below. Remember, these are free to access for four weeks!

Crystal growth, transport phenomena and two-gap superconductivity in the mixed alkali metal (K_1−zNa_z)_xFe_2−ySe₂ iron selenide
Maria Roslova, Svetoslav Kuzmichev, Tatiana Kuzmicheva, Yevgeny Ovchenkov, Min Liu, Igor Morozov, Aleksandr Boltalin, Andrey Shevelkov, Dmitry Chareev and Alexander Vasiliev
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3CE42664E

Free to access until 30^th July 2014

Coordination assembly of Borromean structures
Mei Pan and Cheng-Yong Su
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00616J

Free to access until 30^th July 2014

Weak hydrogen and dihydrogen bonds instead of strong N–HO bonds of a tricyclic [1,2,4,5]-tetrazine derivative. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction, theoretical calculations and Hirshfeld surface analysis
Magdalena Owczarek, Irena Majerz and Ryszard Jakubas
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00571F

Free to access until 15^th July 2014

Electroactive tetrathiafulvalene based pyridine-mono and -bis(1,2,3-triazoles) click ligands: synthesis, crystal structures and coordination chemistry
Thomas Biet and Narcis Avarvari
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00736K

Free to access until 15^th July 2014

A novel azobenzene covalent organic framework
Jian Zhang, Laibing Wang, Na Li, Jiangfei Liu, Wei Zhang, Zhengbiao Zhang, Nianchen Zhou and Xiulin Zhu
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00369A

Free to access until 15^th July 2014

The direct growth of a WO₃ nanosheet array on a transparent conducting substrate for highly efficient electrochromic and electrocatalytic applications
Guo-fa Cai, Jiang-ping Tu, Ding Zhou, Lu Li, Jia-heng Zhang, Xiu-li Wang and Chang-dong Gu
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00404C

Free to access until 15^th July 2014

How to print a crystal structure model in 3D
Teng-Hao Chen, Semin Lee, Amar H. Flood and Ognjen Š. Miljanić
CrystEngComm, 2014, 16, 5488-5493
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00371C 

Free to access until 8^th July 2014

Solid phase microextraction (SPME) combined with TGA as a technique for guest analysis in crystal engineering
Matthew J. Fischer and Alicia M. Beatty
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00419A  

Free to access until 8^th July 2014

Li₂CO₃ thin films fabricated by sputtering techniques: the role of temperature on their properties
Lander Rojo, Irene Castro-Hurtado, María C. Morant-Miñana, Gemma G. Mandayo and Enrique Castaño
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00476K 

Free to access until 8^th July 2014

Glycine homopeptides: the effect of the chain length on the crystal structure and solid state reactivity
Aaron J. Smith, Farukh I. Ali and Dmitriy V. Soldatov
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00630E

Free to access until 8^th July 2014

A study of the step-flow growth of the PVT-grown AlN crystals by a multi-scale modeling method
Wei Guo, Julia Kundin, Matthias Bickermann and Heike Emmerich
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00175C

Free to access until 8^th July 2014

Synthesis of ferromagnetic cobalt nanoparticle tipped CdSe@CdS nanorods: critical role of Pt-activation
Lawrence J. Hill, Nathaniel E. Richey, Younghun Sung, Philip T. Dirlam, Jared J. Griebel, In-Bo Shim, Nicola Pinna, Marc-Georg Willinger, Walter Vogel, Kookheon Char and Jeffrey Pyun
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00680A

Free to access until 8^th July 2014

Check out our new HOT articles for May and keep on checking as these are updated every week and more importantly – free to access for 4 weeks!

The influence of ZnO-binding 12-mer peptides on bio-inspired ZnO formation
Johannes Baier, Nina J. Blumenstein, Jan Preusker, Lars P. H. Jeurgens, Udo Welzel, Tuan A. Do, Jürgen Pleiss and Joachim Bill
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00520A

Free to access until 10^th June 2014

Influence of the anion nature on styryl dye crystal packing and feasibility of the direct and back [2 + 2] photocycloaddition reactions without single crystal degradation
Lyudmila G. Kuz’mina, Artem I. Vedernikov, Andrei V. Churakov, Elmira Kh. Lermontova, Judith A. K. Howard, Michael V. Alfimov and Sergey P. Gromov
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00266K

Free to access until 10^th June 2014

Illuminating host–guest cocrystallization between pyrogallol[4]arenes and the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulfate
Drew A. Fowler, Constance R. Pfeiffer, Simon J. Teat, Christine M. Beavers, Gary A. Baker and Jerry L. Atwood
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00359D

Free to access until 3^rd June 2014

Weakening of the π*–π* dimerisation in 1,2,3,5-dithiadiazolyl radicals: structural, EPR, magnetic and computational studies of dichlorophenyl dithiadiazolyls, Cl₂C₆H₃CNSSN
Christos P. Constantinides, Dana J. Eisler, A. Alberola, Emma Carter, Damien M. Murphy and Jeremy M. Rawson
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00308J

Free to access until 3^rd June 2014

Experimental evidence of negative linear compressibility in the MIL-53 metal–organic framework family
Pablo Serra-Crespo, Alla Dikhtiarenko, Eli Stavitski, Jana Juan-Alcañiz, Freek Kapteijn, François-Xavier Coudert and Jorge Gascon
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00436A

Free to access until 29^th May 2014

Which intermolecular interactions have a significant influence on crystal packing?
Robin Taylor
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00452C

Free to access until 29^th May 2014

Modulating the solubility of sulfacetamide by means of cocrystals
N. Rajesh Goud, Ronaq Ali Khan and Ashwini Nangia
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00103F

Free to access until 23^rd May 2014

Nucleation and crystal growth of amorphous nilutamide – unusual low temperature behavior
Niraj S. Trasi and Lynne S. Taylor
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00118D

Free to access until 15^th May 2014

Tröger’s base quasiracemates and crystal packing tendencies
Jacob T. Cross, Nicholas A. Rossi, Mateusz Serafin and Kraig A. Wheeler
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00323C

Free to access until 15^th May 2014

When two symmetrically independent molecules must be different: “Crystallization-induced diastereomerization” of chiral pinanyl sulfone
Olga A. Lodochnikova, Valeriya A. Startseva, Liliya E. Nikitina, Andrei V. Bodrov, Alexander E. Klimovitskii, Evgenii N. Klimovitskii and Igor A. Litvinov
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3CE42642D   

Free to access until 15^th May 2014

Pressure-induced isostructural phase transition of a metal–organic framework Co₂(4,4′-bpy)₃(NO₃)₄·xH₂O
Mi Zhou, Kai Wang, Zhiwei Men, Chenglin Sun, Zhanlong Li, Bingbing Liu, Guangtian Zou and Bo Zou
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3CE42607F

Free to access until 15^th May 2014