In this CrystEngComm Hot Article, Anne-Lise Daltin and colleagues show that high magnetic field can modify crystal morphology. Read their paper to discover how the influence of forces generated by the magnetic field effects the mechanism of Cu2O growth.
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Morphology of magneto-electrodeposited Cu2O microcrystals
Anne-Lise Daltin, Ahmed Addad, Patrick Baudart and Jean-Paul Chopart
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00691B, Paper
The Editorial Board and team at CrystEngComm would like to wish all their readers a very merry Christmas.
We are looking forward to an exciting time next year, with 24 issues of high quality crystal engineering research to appear in 2011. Following on from a fantastic year, where CrystEngComm acheived a 2009 impact factor of 4.18, we are expecting great things in 2011. Read the CrystEngComm editorial for more information.
The RSC Publishing office will be closed over Christmas, from 25th December until 4th January. We look forward to receiving your submission in the New Year. Submit your paper online now.
Best wishes and have a safe and happy holiday,
CrystEngComm Editorial Office
The scientists in this CrystEngComm Hot article have developed an impressive way to seperate carboxylic acids from fuels.
This is especially important with fuels produced from renewable biomass, where product removal enhances microbial growth and production. But the conventionally used technique to remove products by inducing crystallisation, does not work efficiently for carboxylic acids.
Johan Urbanus and colleagues based in the Netherlands, used electrochemistry to manipulate the pH to obtain neutral carboxylic acids, and used co-crystals to control the solubility to remove them. As the referees of this paper commented, this is an elegant use of electrochemical principles in cocrystallisation and product removal.
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Electrochemically induced co-crystallization for product removal
Johan Urbanus, C. P. Mark Roelands, Jaroslaw Mazurek, Dirk Verdoes and Joop H. ter Horst
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00284D, Communication
In keeping with the festive season, December’s Crystal Clear is a fantastic tinsel-like CdS nanostructure. The christmassy nanowires were created on Cd-coated copper foils via a solvothermal reaction combined with electroplating.
This eyecatching image is taken from an article in Issue 1 2011, by Xiangmin Meng and co-workers at Hefei University of Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Magnificent CdS three-dimensional nanostructure arrays: the synthesis of a novel nanostructure family for nanotechnology
Xinzheng Lan, Yang Jiang, Huangming Su, Shanying Li, Di Wu, Xinmei Liu, Tingting Han, Ling Han, Kaixuan Qin, Honghai Zhong and Xiangmin Meng
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 145-152
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00093K, Paper
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In this CrystEngComm Hot article, (001)-oriented BaTiO3/LaNiO3 superlattics are made by a radio frequency sputtering method.
Liang Qiao and Xiaofang Bi noticed a dielectric anomaly in their superlattices; they observed that the dielectric maxima shifted towards higher temperatures with an increase in frequency. Read on to see how they explain their results, and to find out more about the dielectric properties and phase transition characteristics of their BaTiO3/LaNiO3 superlattices.
Dielectric phase transition and relaxor behavior in BaTiO3/LaNiO3 superlattice
Liang Qiao and Xiaofang Bi
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00665C, Paper
Here is this week’s selection of advanced articles of interest to crystal engineers from across the RSC journals.
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Articles are chosen from: ChemComm, CrystEngComm, Dalton Transactions, Journal of Materials Chemistry, New Journal of Chemistry, Nanoscale, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. |
Soon there will be twice as much CrystEngComm for readers to get their teeth in to! From Issue 1 CrystEngComm will be published fortnightly, with 24 issues appearing in 2011.
This great news for our authors as well as our readers, as articles appear more frequently in issues, and you get your page numbers much quicker.
As can be seen from the massive 600% growth the journal has experienced over the last 5 years, and the accompanying rise in impact factor to 4.2, CrystEngComm is very much THE journal in which to publish cutting-edge crystal engineering research.
To be part of this exciting journal, submit your latest research to CrystEngComm today:
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In this CrystEngComm Hot article, scientists at Harbin Normal University, China, made ZnO nanoplates by introducing Al3+ to change the growth and thickness of the nanostructures. Their method is particularly interesting as they do not use a template or surfactant.
One-step hydrothermal synthesis and optical properties of aluminium doped ZnO hexagonal nanoplates on a zinc substrate
Jia Liu, Lingling Xu, Bo Wei, Wei Lv, Hong Gao and Xitian Zhang
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00704H, Communication
In this CrystEngComm Hot Article, Lee Brammer and colleagues look at making crystalline copper compounds mechanochemically, examining both solid-solid and solid-gas systems. The solid-gas reaction was monitored in situ using synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction and a specially designed gas-handling rig meaning that polymorphs formed during the reaction could be identified!
Synthesis and polymorphism of (4-ClpyH)2[CuCl4]: solid–gas and solid–solid reactions
Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, Rachel A. Sullivan, Stephen L. Purver, Caroline Curfs, Chiu C. Tang and Lee Brammer
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00628A, Paper
In this month’s issue of CrystEngComm the outside cover showcases work by Xinling Tang and Masaharu Tsuji from Kyushu University, Japan. The image shows nanoparticles with a gold core and a gold/silver alloy shell, prepared via a two-step reduction method using dendritic branched gold nanoparticles as seeds.
The inside cover was produced by J. Griesbauer and co-workers at the University of Augsburg and University of Bonn, Germany, and shows the ablation of thin YIG films on SiO2 substrates using pulsed laser deposition, to form crystallised garnet thin films.
View the issue online here: CrystEngComm Issue 1, 2011
Outside Cover Article
Synthesis of Au core Au/Ag alloy shell nanoparticles using branched Au nanoparticles as seeds
Xinling Tang and Masaharu Tsuji
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 72-76
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00018C, Paper
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Inside Cover Article
Mechano- and magneto-optical sensitivity of YIG buffer systems
J. Griesbauer, T. Körner, T. Wehlus, A. Heinrich, B. Stritzker, J. Simon and W. Mader
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 77-82
DOI: 10.1039/C003533E, Paper
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