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New Journal of Chemistry publishes a range of manuscript types, including concise articles that report results of immediate interest to the chemistry community. Manuscripts of this type are currently called “Letter”. After reviewing this article type, the New Journal of Chemistry Editorial Board agreed to change the name of these articles to “Communication”. This aligns New Journal of Chemistry with other Royal Society of Chemistry journals and the Editorial Board hope this change will reduce any confusion for our authors and readers. The manuscript description, editorial standards and process are not changing. These can be found here.

This change will apply to manuscripts published in NJC from Issue 1, 2021 (Volume 45). Authors seeking to submit a manuscript on or after November 16, 2020, will no longer have the option to submit a Letter, and will instead be given the option to submit a Communication.

For any questions, please contact the NJC editorial team using the links on the journal webpage. 

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

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and make the selected articles free to access for 4 weeks! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in NJC in 2019. Please note that only the HOT articles from October – December 2019 have been made free to access, this will be updated quarterly to reflect our latest HOT articles.

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

This month saw the occasion of the 50th Inorganic Discussion Weekend (IDW) held in Toronto from November 3^rd – 5^th. The conference was chaired by Dr Bryan Koivisto of Ryerson University and NJC was on-hand to award a poster prize to the best young researcher.

The winner of the NJC Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation was Jeanette Adjei for her poster entitled ‘Nickel & Palladium (N,O)-Donor Ligand Complexes: Structure & Catalysis‘. Jeanette is currently in the final year of her bachelor of science in chemistry at Ryerson University, Canada, and is working her undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Dr. Robert Gossage. Her research focuses on the development of a library of oxazoline ligands and explores coordination chemistry via N,O chelation to nickel and palladium metals.

	NJC poster prize winner Jeanette Adjei (right) being presented her award by conference chair Dr Bryan Koivisto (left).

The IDW is a perennial fall meeting that has become part of the fabric of the Canadian inorganic chemistry community for 50 years. Originally initiated by Dr. Barry Lever (Emeritus, York University & Founding Editor of Coordination Chemistry Reviews) in 1968, this has become one of the biggest regional meetings in Canadian Chemistry. This year it featured internationally renowned keynote speakers Dr Ian Manners (Bristol University, UK), Dr Chris Orvig (University of British Columbia, Canada), Dr Cathleen Crudden (Queen’s University, Canada), and Dr Martin Albrecht (University of Bern, Switzerland). More information can be found at the event website.

NJC offers a huge congratulations to Jeanette Adjei for her outstanding poster presentation!

In celebration of Peer Review Week, with the theme of Recognition for Review – we would like to highlight the top 10 reviewers for New Journal of Chemistry in 2016, as selected by the editor for their significant contribution to the journal.

We would like to say a massive thank you to these reviewers as well as the New Journal of Chemistry board and all of the research community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

From October – December 2015, our most downloaded NJC articles were:

Ultra-sensitive in situ detection of silver ions using a quartz crystal microbalance

Advances in spinel Li4Ti5O12 anode materials for lithium-ion batteries

Xu Lu, Yohei Ishida and Tetsu Yonezawa

New J. Chem., 2015, 39, 6267-6273

DOI: 10.1039/C5NJ00909J, Paper

Applications of graphene and related nanomaterials in analytical chemistry

Shenguang Ge, Feifei Lan, Feng Yu and Jinghua Yu

New J. Chem., 2015, 39, 2380-2395

DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ01783H, Perspective

Crystal faces of rutile and anatase TiO2 particles and their roles in photocatalytic reactions

Teruhisa Ohno, Koji Sarukawa and Michio Matsumura

New J. Chem., 2002, 26, 1167-1170

DOI: 10.1039/B202140D, Paper

Preparation of graphene–TiO2 composites with enhanced photocatalytic activity

Kangfu Zhou, Yihua Zhu, Xiaoling Yang, Xin Jiang and Chunzhong Li

New J. Chem., 2011, 35, 353-359

DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00623H, Paper

Advances in the chemistry of dendrimers

Marta Sowinska and Zofia Urbanczyk-Lipkowska

New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 2168-2203

DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ01239E, Perspective

Carbazole–corrole and carbazole–prophyrin dyads: synthesis, fluorescence and electrochemical studies

Naresh Balsukuri, Sudipta Das and Iti Gupta

New J. Chem., 2015, 39, 482-491

DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ01086H, Paper

Au@SiO2 colloids: effect of temperature on the surface plasmon absorption

Luis M. Liz-Marzán and Paul Mulvaney

New J. Chem., 1998, 22, 1285-1288

DOI: 10.1039/A801214H, Paper

Star-shaped isoindigo-based small molecules as potential non-fullerene acceptors in bulk heterojunction solar cells

Xin Liu, Yuan Xie, Haobin Zhao, Xinyi Cai, Hongbin Wu, Shi-Jian Su and Yong Cao

New J. Chem., 2015, 39, 8771-8779

DOI: 10.1039/C5NJ01893E, Paper

Chain of dimers to assembly of trimers: temperature and ligand influenced formation of novel supramolecular assemblies of Cu(II) with isomeric (aminomethyl) pyridines and azide

Sailaja S. Sunkari, Bhagwan Kharediya, Satyen Saha, Bahjat Elrez and Jean-Pascal Sutter

New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 3529-3539

DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ00374H, Paper

Enhanced activity of a hydrothermally synthesized mesoporous MoS2 nanostructure for high performance supercapacitor applications

Ananthakumar Ramadoss, Taehyun Kim, Gui-Shik Kim and Sang Jae Kim

New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 2379-2385

DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ01558K, Paper

Chiral thiouronium salts: synthesis, characterisation and application in NMR enantio-discrimination of chiral oxoanions

Magdalena B. Foreiter, H. Q. Nimal Gunaratne, Peter Nockemann, Kenneth R. Seddon, Paul J. Stevenson and David F. Wassell

New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 515-533

DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40632B, Paper

Hollow micro/nanostructured materials prepared by ion exchange synthesis and their potential applications

Chenglin Yan and Federico Rosei

New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 1883-1904

DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00888F, Perspective