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Inorganic materials and nanoparticles are being applied to many of the most pressing challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. They are currently being investigated for their applications in batteries, solar cells, photocatalysts for water splitting and pollutant degradation, and medical theragnostics. Here are some of the most impactful papers in solid state inorganic chemistry from Dalton Transactions in 2017.

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These Frontier and Perspective articles are receiving a lot of attention online, reviewing the advances and trends that are making waves in the solid-state inorganic chemistry community.

Thioborates: potential nonlinear optical materials with rich structural chemistry 

Yu-kun Lian, Li-Ming Wu and Ling Chen

Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 4134-4147 DOI: 10.1039/C6DT04767J   This review summarizes thioborates and their structural motifs ranging from zero-dimension to three-dimension. The most commonly observed building units of these examples are planar-triangle BS3 and tetrahedron BS4. Thioborates possess advantages with respect to their structural diversity, optical nonlinearity, laser-induced damage threshold and transparency range, and represent potentially a rich supply of new nonlinear optical materials.

A chemical approach to perovskite solar cells: control of electron-transporting mesoporous TiO₂ and utilization of nanocarbon materials

Tomokazu Umeyama and Hiroshi Imahori

Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 15615-15627 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT02421E   This Perspective highlights recent chemical approaches to perovskite solar cells, including the control of electron-transporting mesoporous TiO2 and the utilization of nanocarbon materials.

Engineering transition metal phosphide nanomaterials as highly active electrocatalysts for water splitting

Yanmei Shi and Bin Zhang

Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 16770-16773 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT03648E   This Frontier article will highlight recent advances in engineering the composition and structure of TMPs for higher water electrolysis performances.

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This original research is off to a great start, as some of our most cited work these papers and communications are already being recognized by the nanomaterials and solid-state chemistry community.

Novel p–n heterojunction BiOI/CeO₂photocatalyst for wider spectrum visible-light photocatalytic degradation of refractory pollutants

Xiao-Ju Wen, Cheng-Gang Niu, Lei Zhang and Guang-Ming Zeng

All-inorganic perovskite quantum dot/mesoporous TiO₂ composite-based photodetectors with enhanced performance

Lin Zhou, Kai Yu, Fan Yang, Jun Zheng, Yuhua Zuo, Chuanbo Li, Buwen Cheng and Qiming Wang

Na_2.32Co_1.84(SO₄)₃ as a new member of the alluaudite family of high-voltage sodium battery cathodes

Debasmita Dwibedi, Ritambhara Gond, Allumolu Dayamani, Rafael B. Araujo, Sudip Chakraborty, Rajeev Ahuja and Prabeer Barpanda

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