Dalton Transactions Blog

We are delighted to share with you our Spotlight Collection on MOF Sensors.

This Spotlight Collection is guest edited by Dalton Transactions Associate Editor Takashi Uemura (University of Tokyo).

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About the Spotlight Collection

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), comprised of metal ions and bridging organic ligands, have emerged as an important family of porous materials. Owing to their highly porous structures with functional properties, MOFs are considered as one of the most ideal materials for chemical sensors as the sensing properties are strongly influenced by surface interaction between analyte molecules and pore walls of MOFs. The application of MOFs covers the fields of sensing toward a variety of target compounds, including gases, solvents, explosives, ions, pollutions, and biological molecules. This spotlight collection focuses on the latest studies on MOF-based sensors published in Dalton Transactions, showing highly sensitive detections and the future research directions using MOFs with respect to general sensing principles and analytical performance.

Articles will be added to this open and on-going spotlight collection as soon as possible after they are published. You can find a selection of the articles below and check out the growing collection online here:

First Ln-MOF as a trifunctional luminescent probe for the efficient sensing of aspartic acid, Fe³⁺ and DMSO
Dongdong Yang, Liping Lu,* Sisi Feng and Miaoli Zhu*
Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 7514-7524

Engineering design toward exploring the functional group substitution in 1D channels of Zn–organic frameworks upon nitro explosives and antibiotics detection
Zhan Zhou, Min-Le Han, Hong-Ru Fu, Lu-Fang Ma,* Feng Luo and Dong-Sheng Li*
Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 5359-5365

The effect of functional groups in the aqueous-phase selective sensing of Fe(III) ions by thienothiophene-based zirconium metal–organic frameworks and the design of molecular logic gates
Rana Dalapati, Ülkü Kökçam-Demir, Christoph Janiak and Shyam Biswas*
Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 1159-1170

How to submit:

All types of manuscript – communications, full papers, perspective, frontiers and comments – will be considered for publication. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes as necessary, and inclusion in the Spotlight Collection will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. Please indicate in your submission that you are submitting to the Spotlight Collection.

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We are delighted to share with you our Spotlight Collection on 2D Materials Chemistry.

This Spotlight Collection is guest edited by Dalton Transactions Associate Editor Li-Min Zheng (Nanjing University) alongside Eugenio Coronado (University of Valencia) and Hua Zhang (City University of Hong Kong).

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About the Spotlight Collection

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have fascinated scientists for more than a decade. While most work has been devoted to inorganic systems, there has been a distinct increase in metal-organic 2D materials. This themed collection will provide a brief overview of the latest developments of the inorganic and metal-organic 2D materials. It covers everything from synthetic strategies, chemical design, the variety of electronic, chemical and optical properties to applications in catalysis, sensors, energy storage and conversion, electronics and other related areas.

Articles will be added to this open and on-going spotlight collection as soon as possible after they are published. You can find a selection of the articles below and check out the growing collection online here:

Two-dimensional MAX-derived titanate nanostructures for efficient removal of Pb(II)
Pengcheng Gu, Sai Zhang, Chenlu Zhang, Xiangxue Wang, Ayub Khan,  Tao Wen,* Baowei Hu,* Ahmed Alsaedi, Tasawar Hayat and Xiangke Wang*
Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 2100-2107

Few-layered MoSe₂ nanosheets as an advanced electrode material for supercapacitors
Suresh Kannan Balasingam, Jae Sung Lee and Yongseok Jun*
Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 15491-15498

Neutral ligand TIPA-based two 2D metal–organic frameworks: ultrahigh selectivity of C₂H₂/CH₄ and efficient sensing and sorption of Cr(VI)
Hong-Ru Fu, Ying Zhao, Zhan Zhou, Xiao-Gang Yang and Lu-Fang Ma*
Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 3725-3732

How to submit:

All types of manuscript – communications, full papers, perspective, frontiers and comments – will be considered for publication. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes as necessary, and inclusion in the Spotlight Collection will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. Please indicate in your submission that you are submitting to the Spotlight Collection.

Interested in submitting a paper? Please contact us for more information.

We are delighted to share with you our Spotlight Collection on Lanthanide and transition metal complexes as molecular magnets.

This Spotlight Collection is guest edited by Dalton Transactions Associate Editor Vadapalli Chandrasekhar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur).

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About the Spotlight Collection

The research area of molecule-based magnets encompassing single-molecule magnets (SMMs), single-ion magnets (SIMs) and single-chain magnets (SCMs) has been extremely active in recent years. This field is truly interdisciplinary and the advances in this field have been possible only due to a concerted effort from synthetic coordination- and organometallic chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and theoreticians. Research in this field is driven by both academic curiosity as well as the possibility of finding exotic applications such as high-density information to quantum computation. While many challenges remain to be overcome before the potential of these new materials can be realized, there has been substantial progress both in the design and assembly of these new systems as well as in understanding of their properties. This appears to be an appropriate time to bring out a special edition of Dalton Transactions on this multi-disciplinary subject.

Articles will be added to this open and on-going spotlight collection as soon as possible after they are published. You can find a selection of the articles below and check out the growing collection online here:

Conducting single-molecule magnet materials
Goulven Cosquer, Yongbing Shen, Manuel Almeida and Masahiro Yamashita*
Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 7616-7627

Slow magnetic relaxation in penta-coordinate cobalt(ii) field-induced single-ion magnets (SIMs) with easy-axis magnetic anisotropy
Salah S. Massoud,* Zoe E. Perez, Jessica R. Courson, Roland C. Fischer, Franz A. Mautner, Ján Vančo, Michal Čajan and Zdeněk Trávníček*
Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 11715-11726

A new class of Dy^III-SIMs associated with a guanidine-based ligand
Basharat Ali, Xiao-Lei Li, Frédéric Gendron, Boris Le Guennic* and Jinkui Tang*
Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 5146-5143

How to submit:

All types of manuscript – communications, full papers, perspective, frontiers and comments – will be considered for publication. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes as necessary, and inclusion in the Spotlight Collection will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. Please indicate in your submission that you are submitting to the Spotlight Collection.

Interested in submitting a paper? Please contact us for more information.