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Congratulations to the CrystEngComm poster prize winners at the 2nd International Conference on “Crystal Engineering: From Molecule to Crystals” CEFMC 2020

09 Jul 2020

The 2^nd International Conference on Crystal Engineering: From molecule to crystals was held virtually on Friday June 19^th– Saturday June 20^th 2020. This conference series started in India in 2019 with the aim of bringing the Crystal Engineering community together, to discuss both the fundamental concepts and the latest developments in the field. The conference was comprised of invited lectures, short lectures and poster presentations.

CrystEngComm sponsored three poster prizes at this year’s meeting and they were awarded to:

Remya Ramakrishnan, IISER Trivandrum, for the poster entitled: Anomalous Halogen−Halogen Interaction Assists Radial Chromophoric Assembly	Shailabh Tewari, IIT Delhi, India for the poster entitled: Engineering Multidimensional Structures Based on Anderson-Evans Cluster – Inorganic Molecular Ruby	Amit Mondal, IISER Kolkata for the poster entitled: Metal-like Ductility and Malleability in Organic Plastic Crystals

The winners all received a journal certificate and a cash prize.

CrystEngComm sends warmest congratulations to the winners!

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Welcoming Professor Kwangyeol Lee to the CrystEngComm Editorial Board!

09 Jul 2020

By Daphne Houston.

Welcoming Professor Kwangyeol Lee to the CrystEngComm Editorial Board

We are delighted to welcome Professor Kwangyeol Lee (Korea University, Korea) as an Associate Editor for CrystEngComm!

Kwangyeol Lee is Professor of Chemistry at Korea University. He graduated from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1992 and obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1997 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign under the supervision of Professor John R. Shapley. After fulfilling his military obligation of Korea, he joined Korea University in 2003 as an Assistant Professor. During his independent research career Professor Lee has studied nanocrystal growth, phase conversions in nanoscale as well as nanoparticle applications. He has contributed over 180 papers in the fields of organometallic chemistry and nanochemistry. His current research efforts are focused on the development of synthetic methodologies for nanoscale materials and the development of nanotechnologies to support the environment by creating sustainable energy. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Lectureship Award (2007, The Chemical Society of Japan), Wiley-KCS Young Scholar Award (2009, The Korean Chemical Society) and the Excellent Research Award (2019, Inorganic Chemistry Division of The Korean Chemical Society).

Kwangyeol has given his insight and thoughts on the future of the field of crystal engineering and materials chemistry and the role of CrystEngComm:

“The field of crystal engineering is a natural match with nascent machine learning technology. The interlocking of these two would lead to hitherto unobserved speed of material discovery, which would be a boon to people with applications in mind.”

“The salient challenge to synthetic chemists in the field of crystal engineering would be the control of defects in the crystal. How much and where to locate defects and vacancies in a given crystal might lead to excellent material performances.”

“CrystEngComm could be the leading venue for new idea exchange as unprecedented properties can come only from unprecedented materials that are not free of the fundamentals of crystal growth.”

Editor’s Choice: Kwangyeol’s favourite CrystEngComm articles

Below are two publications that Kwangyeol has chosen as his favourite CrystEngComm articles from the themed issue, Crystal engineering of composite materials, which he guest edited for the journal in 2016. Both articles are free to access for a limited time.

“These works attracted considerable interest from the scientists in the fields of photovoltaics and electrolytic water splitting, respectively. I am greatly fond of these two articles.”

Crystal growth engineering for high efficiency perovskite solar cells
Nam-Gyu Park
CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, 5977-5985
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CE00813E

Shape effects of nickel phosphide nanocrystals on hydrogen evolution reaction
Bora Seo, Du San Baek, Young Jin Sa and Sang Hoon Joo
CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, 6083-6089
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CE00985A

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HOT Articles – Online and free to access now

07 Jul 2020

By Daphne Houston.

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 21 August 2020! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in CrystEngComm between April – June 2020.

Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!

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Read our Editors’ Collection: Computer Aided Solid Form Design

05 Jun 2020

By Daphne Houston.

We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Computer Aided Solid Form Design, handpicked by Editorial Board Member Susan Reutzel-Edens, Eli Lilly and Company.

These articles are free to access until July 31^st 2020 and we hope you enjoy reading them.

We invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm and give your work the global visibility it deserves.

Submit your research now

Selected articles:

Naphthalene crystal shape prediction from molecular dynamics simulations
Zoran Bjelobrk, Pablo M. Piaggi, Thilo Weber, Tarak Karmakar, Marco Mazzotti and Michele Parrinello
CrystEngComm, 2019, 21, 3280-3288.
DOI: 10.1039/C9CE00380K

Crystal-energy landscapes of active pharmaceutical ingredients using composite approaches
Luc M. LeBlanc and Erin R. Johnson
CrystEngComm, 2019, 21, 5995-6009.
DOI: 10.1039/C9CE00895K

Cocrystal design by network-based link prediction
Jan-Joris Devogelaer, Sander J. T. Brugman, Hugo Meekes, Paul Tinnemans, Elias Vlieg and René de Gelder
CrystEngComm, 2019, 21, 6875-6885.
DOI: 10.1039/C9CE01110B

Read the full collection here

Meet the Editor

Susan Reutzel-Edens is a senior research advisor in Small Molecule Design & Development at Eli Lilly and Company and adjunct professor at Purdue University. After earning her PhD at the University of Minnesota (1991) under the direction of the late Professor Margaret C. Etter, she joined Eli Lilly, where she founded the solid form design programme and for two decades led a team of cross-functional scientists charged with finding commercially-viable crystalline forms for small-molecule drug products. She has contributed to the development of more than 150 compounds, is a named inventor on 12 US patents, and has published over 50 papers and book chapters on key aspects of solid form development. Her research interests include crystal polymorphism, materials design and engineering, crystal nucleation and growth, structure-property relationships, crystal structure prediction and digital design of drug products. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018, and currently serves on the CrystEngComm Editorial Board, as a topic editor for Crystal Growth and Design, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.

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Outstanding Reviewers for CrystEngComm in 2019

16 Apr 2020

By Daphne Houston.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for CrystEngComm in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Professor Naira Balzaretti, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, ORCiD: 0000-0003-2797-8618

Dr Jubaraj Baruah, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, ORCID: 0000-0003-3371-7529

Dr Liliana Dobrzanska, Nicolaus Copernicus University

Professor Sylvie Ferlay, Institut Le Bel, ORCID: 0000-0002-9707-9514

Professor Linfeng Hu, Fudan University, ORCID: 0000-0002-0640-508X

Dr Kristin Hutchins, Texas Tech University, ORCID: 0000-0001-8792-2830

Dr Hui Jiang, Nanyang Technological University, ORCID: 0000-0002-4577-2886

Professor Chiara Maccato, Padova University, ORCID: 0000-0001-6368-5754

Professor Yuji Matsumoto, Tohoku University, ORCID: 0000-0003-1819-5566

Dr Sharmarke Mohamed, Khalifa University, ORCID: 0000-0002-5195-2533

Dr Stefanos Mourdikoudis, University College London, ORCID: 0000-0001-7187-5128

Dr Sebastian Schwaminger, Technical University of Munich, ORCID: 0000-0002-8627-0807

We would also like to thank the CrystEngComm board and the crystal engineering and crystalline materials community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

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HOT Articles – Online and free to access now

14 Apr 2020

By Daphne Houston.

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 22 May 2020! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in CrystEngComm between January – March 2020.

Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!

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Read our Editor’s Collection on Mechanochemistry by Elena Boldyreva

18 Feb 2020

By Daphne Houston.

We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Mechanochemistry, handpicked by Editorial Board Member Elena Boldyreva.

These articles are free to access until April 13^th 2020 and we hope you enjoy reading them.

We invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm and give your work the global visibility it deserves.

Submit your research now

Selected articles:

Dynamic behaviour in nonporous hybrid metal–organic materials via mechanochemical and gas–solid reactions
Fang Guo, Hao-Cheng Wang, Antonino Famulari, Hai-Dong Lu and Javier Martí-Rujas
CrystEngComm, 2018, 20, 6721-6726. DOI: 10.1039/C8CE01287C

On the kinetics of solvate formation through mechanochemistry
Dritan Hasa, Mariana Pastore, Mihails Arhangelskis, Benjamin Gabriele, Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza, Gabriela Schneider Rauber, Andrew D. Bond and William Jones
CrystEngComm, 2019, 21, 2097-2104. DOI: 10.1039/C8CE00871J

Cocrystal formation by ionic liquid-assisted grinding: case study with cocrystals of caffeine
Arijit Mukherjee, Robin D. Rogers and A. S. Myerson
CrystEngComm, 2018, 20, 3817-3821. DOI: 10.1039/C8CE00859K

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Meet the Editor

Editorial Board Member Professor Dr Elena Boldyreva is currently employed by Boreskov Institute of Catalysis Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences and is the Head of the Chair of Solid State Chemistry of the Novosibirsk State University. Elena Boldyreva is an Honorary Doctor of Sciences of the University of Edinburgh, a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Slovenia and a Member of the Academia Europea. She was a Humboldt Fellow and has spent many research terms in Germany, UK, Italy, France. She served as a member of the Executive Committee of the IUCr in 2008–2014.

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HOT Articles – Online and free to access now

07 Feb 2020

By Daphne Houston.

We have updated our reviewer recommend ‘HOT articles’ for 2019.

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and have made the selected articles free to access until 11 March 2020! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in CrystEngComm between October – December 2019.

Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!

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03 Jan 2020

By Karina Webster.

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

Christian Doonan, CrystEngComm, Royal Society of Chemistry

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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Read our Editor’s Collection on Chromism in Frameworks by Susan Bourne

20 Nov 2019

By Karina Webster.

We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Chromism in Frameworks handpicked by Associate Editor Susan Bourne.

These articles are free to access until December 31^st 2019 and we hope you enjoy reading them.

We invite you to submit your research to CrystEngComm and give your work the global visibility it deserves.

Submit your research now

Featured articles:

Two novel multichromic coordination polymers based on a new flexible viologen ligand exhibiting photocontrolled luminescence properties and sensitive detection for ammonia
Hai Yu Wang, Shuang Liu, Chen Fu and Hong Zhang
CrystEngComm, 2019, 21, 1635-1641 DOI: 10.1039/C8CE01948G

Solvatomorphism of Reichardt’s dye
Sarah J. Pike, Andrew D. Bond and Christopher A. Hunter
CrystEngComm, 2018, 20, 2912-2915 DOI: 10.1039/C8CE00480C

The thermo-responsive behavior in molecular crystals of naphthalene diimides and their 3D printed thermochromic composites
Madushani Dharmarwardana, Bhargav S. Arimilli, Michael A. Luzuriaga, Sunah Kwon, Hamilton Lee, Gayan A. Appuhamillage, Gregory T. McCandless, Ronald A. Smaldone and Jeremiah J. Gassensmith
CrystEngComm, 2018, 20, 6054-6060 DOI: 10.1039/C8CE00798E

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CrystEngComm Associate Editor Susan Bourne Royal Society of Chemistry

Meet the Editor

Associate Editor 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. Her research interests include the application of physicochemical methods to inclusion compounds and crystal engineering of metal-organic materials, all with the aim of correlating solid-state structure with physical properties and reactivity. She has published over 120 papers and has supervised 20 postgraduate students. She is the chair of the Structural Chemistry Commission of the International Union of Crystallography, and is a Fellow of the University of Cape Town.

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Congratulations to the CrystEngComm poster prize winners at the 2nd International Conference on “Crystal Engineering: From Molecule to Crystals” CEFMC 2020

Welcoming Professor Kwangyeol Lee to the CrystEngComm Editorial Board!

HOT Articles – Online and free to access now

Read our Editors’ Collection: Computer Aided Solid Form Design

Outstanding Reviewers for CrystEngComm in 2019

HOT Articles – Online and free to access now

Read our Editor’s Collection on Mechanochemistry by Elena Boldyreva

HOT Articles – Online and free to access now

Read our Editor’s Collection on Chromism in Frameworks by Susan Bourne

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