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Congratulations to our highly cited board members!

We are proud to announce that 13 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Board members are recognized in Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2019, ranking them among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and publication year.

The board members are:

Editorial Board

Song Gao, South China University of Technology, China
Jun Chen, Nankai University, China
Nanfeng Zheng, Xiamen University, China

Advisory Board

Christopher J Chang, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Xiao-Ming Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Yi Cui, Stanford University, USA
Xile Hu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University, USA
Yadong Li, Tsinghua University, China
Wenbin Lin, University of Chicago, USA
Yi Xie, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Qichun Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hong-Cai Joe Zhou, Texas A&M University, USA

 

Below are a few of our picks from their publications in Frontiers Journals. Access is free to all these highlighted papers until 31 Jan 2020!

Multiple magnetic relaxation pathways in T-shaped N-heterocyclic carbene-supported Fe(i) single-ion magnets
Yin-Shan Meng, Zhengwu Ouyang, Mu-Wen Yang, Yi-Quan Zhang, Liang Deng*, Bing-Wu Wang* and Song Gao*
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1050-1057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00073A

single-molecule magnet
Yin-Shan Meng*, Yu-Sen Qiao, Mu-Wen Yang, Jin Xiong, Tao Liu, Yi-Quan Zhang, Shang-Da Jiang, Bing-Wu Wang* and Song Gao*
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QI01252D

Selective hydrogenation of CO2 over a Ce promoted Cu-based catalyst confined by SBA-15
Xiaosong Hu, Chaoyue Zhao, Qingxin Guan, Xin Hu, Wei Li* and Jun Chen
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1799-1812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00397E

High-performance rechargeable aqueous Zn-ion batteries with a poly(benzoquinonyl sulfide) cathode
Gulbahar Dawut, Yong Lu, Licheng Miao and Jun Chen*
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 1391-1396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QI00197A

N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone as an excellent coordinative additive with a wide operating range for fabricating high-quality perovskite films
Fangwen Cheng, Xiaojing Jing, Ruihao Chen, Jing Cao, Juanzhu Yan, Youyunqi Wu, Xiaofeng Huang, Binghui Wu* and Nanfeng Zheng*
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 2458-2463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00547A

A single palladium site catalyst as a bridge for converting homogeneous to heterogeneous in dimerization of terminal aryl acetylenes
Chao Zhao, Haizhu Yu, Jing Wang, Wei Che, Zhijun Li, Tao Yao, Wensheng Yan, Min Chen, Jian Yang, Shiqiang Wei, Yuen Wu* and Yadong Li
Mater. Chem. Front., 2018,2, 1317-1322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QM00095F

Manganese-mediated reductive amidation of esters with nitroarenes
Chi Wai Cheung*, Ni Shen, Shao-Peng Wang, Asim Ullah, Xile Hu and Jun-An Ma*
Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 756-761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QO01405A

Recent progress in ligand-centered homogeneous electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction
Geng-Geng Luo*, Hai-Lin Zhang, Yun-Wen Tao, Qiao-Yu Wu, Dan Tian and Qichun Zhang*
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 343-354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QI01220B

New synthetic strategies to prepare metal–organic frameworks
Peng Li, Fang-Fang Cheng, Wei-Wei Xiong* and  Qichun Zhang*
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 2693-2708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QI00543E

Cost-effective synthesis and solution processing of porous polymer networks through methanesulfonic acid-mediated aldol triple condensation
Zi-Hao Guo, Chenxu Wang, Qiang Zhang, Sai Che, Hong-Cai Zhou and Lei Fang*
Mater. Chem. Front., 2018,2, 396-401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QM00485K

A flexible thioether-based MOF as a crystalline sponge for structural characterization of liquid organic molecules
Xin-Yu Yang, Shuai Yuan, Jun-Sheng Qin, Christina Lollar, Ali Alsalme* and Hong-Cai Zhou*
Mater. Chem. Front., 2017,1, 1764-1767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7QM00152E

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Hot Article in October 2019

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of October 2019!

You can access these publications for free till 31st December 2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

 

A novel multifunction photochromic metal–organic framework for rapid ultraviolet light detection, amine-selective sensing and inkless and erasable prints
Li Li, Zu-Ming Tu, Yang Hua, Xiao-Nan Li, Hai-Yu Wang and Hong Zhang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI01037H

In situ formation of porous LiCuVO4/LiVO3/C nanotubes as a high-capacity anode material for lithium ion batteries
Rong Cui, Jiande Lin, Xinxin Cao, Pengfei Hao, Xuefang Xie, Shuang Zhou, Yaping Wang, Shuquan Liang and Anqiang Pan
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI01040H

 

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Welcome to Issue 10 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

Welcome to issue 10 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online.

The front cover story, Electrochemical exploration of the effects of calcination temperature of a mesoporous zinc vanadate anode material on the performance of Na-ion batteries is contributed by Rasu Muruganantham, Irish Valerie Buiser Maggay, Lyn Marie Z. De Juan, Mai Thanh Nguyen, Tetsu Yonezawa, Chia-Her Lin, Yan-Gu Lin and Wei-Ren Liu .

The inside cover features a story on Disentangling the role of oxygen vacancies on the surface of Fe3O4 and γ-Fe2O3 by Wei Jian, Shi-Ping Wang, Hong-Xing Zhang and Fu-Quan Bai

 

 

 

Following review articles are included in current issue:

Shaping well-defined noble-metal-based nanostructures for fabricating high-performance electrocatalysts: advances and perspectives
Hai-Jing Yin, Jun-Hao Zhou and Ya-Wen Zhang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 2582-2618
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00689C


Recent progress in the application of group 1, 2 & 13 metal complexes as catalysts for the ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters
Jiahao Gao, Dongzhi Zhu, Wenjuan Zhang, Gregory A. Solan, Yanping Ma and Wen-Hua Sun
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 2619-2652
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00855A

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Hot Article in September 2019

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of September 2019!

You can access these publications for free till 30th November 2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

 

Sn nanocrystals embedded in porous TiO2/C with improved capacity for sodium-ion batteries
Wei Xu, Lingjun Kong, Hui Huang, Ming Zhong, Yingying Liu and Xian-He Bu
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00789J

An Fe2O3 nanoparticle-reduced graphene oxide composite for ambient electrocatalytic N2 reduction to NH3
Jian Li, Xiaojuan Zhu, Ting Wang, Yonglan Luo and Xuping Sun
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00968J

Defective crystalline molybdenum phosphides as bifunctional catalysts for hydrogen evolution and hydrazine oxidation reactions during water splitting
Yan Gao, Qiang Wang, Ting He, Jun-Ye Zhang, Hao Sun, Bin Zhao, Bao Yu Xia, Ya Yan and Yuan Chen
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI01005J

A new cluster-based chalcogenide zeolite analogue with a large inter-cluster bridging angle
Mingjun Xia, Fei Liang, Xianghe Meng, Yonggang Wang and Zheshuai Lin
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI01051C

Characterization and high piezoelectric performance of Pb(Fe1/2Nb1/2)O3–Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3–PbTiO3 ternary ceramics
Guanyu Zhu, Hui Liu, Shengdong Sun, Botao Gao and Jun Chen
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI01022J

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Welcome to Issue 9 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

Welcome to issue 9 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online.

The front cover story, Photodetection of DNA mismatches by dissymmetric Ru(II) acridine based complexes is contributed by Martin Gillard, Baptiste Laramée-Milette, Quentin Deraedt, Garry S. Hanan, Fredérique Loiseau, Jérôme Dejeu, Eric Defrancq, Benjamin Elias and Lionel Marcélis.

Following review articles are included in current issue:

Rare earth double perovskites: a fertile soil in the field of perovskite oxides
Xiaoyun Chen, Jun Xu, Yueshan Xu, Feng Luo and Yaping Du
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 2226-2238
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00512A

Hollow multi-shelled structures for energy conversion and storage applications
Hao Ren and Ranbo Yu
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6,2239-2259
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00634F

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Hot articles in August 2019

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT article of August 2019!

You can access these publications for free till 31st October 2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

 

Nanostructured morphology control and phase transition of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks as an ultra-high performance adsorbent for water purification
Chengyuan Yang, Wentao Zhang, Jing Wang, Sihang Li, Xinnan Liu, Leina Dou, Tianli Yue, Jing Sun and Jianlong Wang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00851A

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Welcome to Issue 8 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

Welcome to issue 8 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers for 2019 ! The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online.

The front cover story, Ethylene glycol-assisted fabrication and superb adsorption capacity of hierarchical porous flower-like magnesium oxide microspheres for phosphate is contributed by Saeed Ahmed, Jingsong Pan, Muhammad Naeem Ashiq, Dianqing Li, Pinggui Tang and Yongjun Feng Pietzsch and Constantin Mamat.

The inside cover features a story on A proof-of-concept application of water-soluble ytterbium(III) molecular probes in in vivo NIR-II whole body bioimaging by Yingying Ning, Si Chen, Hao Chen, Jing-Xiang Wang, Shuqing He, Yi-Wei Liu, Zhen Cheng and Jun-Long Zhang.

 

Following review articles are included in current issue:

Metal–organic framework-based materials for the recovery of uranium from aqueous solutions
Weiting Yang, Qinhe Pan, Shuyan Song and Hongjie Zhang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1924-1937
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00386J


Chiral zeolite beta: structure, synthesis, and application
Tingting Lu, Wenfu Yan and Ruren Xu
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 1938-1951
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00574A

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Hot articles in July 2019

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of July 2019!

You can access these publications for free till 30th September 2019 by logging into your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account (http://pubs.rsc.org).

 

A study of crack formation and propagation in LaZrCeO/YSZ thermal barrier coatings at different temperatures
Zaoyu Shen, Limin He, Rende Mu, Zhenhua Xu and Guanghong Huang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00580C

Hollow multi-shell structured SnO2 with enhanced performance for ultraviolet photodetectors
Meng Li, Dan Mao, Jiawei Wan, Fakun Wang, Tianyou Zhai and Dan Wang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00490D

Intrinsic zero thermal expansion in cube cyanurate K6Cd3(C3N3O3)4
Mingjun Xia, Fei Liang, Xianghe Meng, Yonggang Wang and Zheshuai Lin
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, Advance Article
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QI00709A

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Welcome to Issue 1 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2019

The latest InorgChemFront issue 1 is published online.

The front cover story, From ZIF nanoparticles to hierarchically porous carbon: toward very high surface area and high-performance supercapacitor electrode materials, is contributed by Fangfang Wang, Liangkui Zhu, Ying Pan, Zhan Li, Pingping Yang, Mingqiu Song, Zhuangzhuang Gao, Qianrong Fang, Ming Xue and Shilun Qiu.

The inside cover features a story on Dinuclear lanthanide–lithium complexes based on fluorinated β-diketonate with acetal group: magnetism and effect of crystal packing on mechanoluminescence, by Denis N. Bazhin, Yulia S. Kudyakova, Artem S. Bogomyakov, Pavel A. Slepukhin, Grigory A. Kim, Yanina V. Burgart and Victor I. Saloutin.

 

Following review article is included in current issue:

Ultrafast synthesis of zeolites: breakthrough, progress and perspective
Zhendong Liu, Jie Zhu, Toru Wakihara and Tatsuya Okubo
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 14-31
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QI00939B

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Welcome to Issue 11 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2018

The latest InorgChemFront issue 11 is published online.

 

The front cover story, Achieving photocatalytic hydrogen production from alkaline solution upon a designed mesoporous TiO2–Ni hybrid employing commonly used paper as a sacrificial electron donor, is contributed by Yi Wei, Jinyan Xiong, Weijie Li, Ravichandran H. Kollarigowda and Gang Cheng.

The inside cover features a story on Unveiling controlled breaking of the mirror symmetry of Eu(fod)3 with α-/β-pinene and BINAP by circularly polarised luminescence (CPL), CPL excitation, and 19F-/31P{1H}-NMR spectra and Mulliken charges by Abd Jalil Jalilah, Fumio Asanoma and Michiya Fujiki.

 

Following review article is included in current issue:

New synthetic strategies to prepare metal–organic frameworks
Peng Li, Fang-Fang Cheng, Wei-Wei Xiong and Qichun Zhang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2018,5,2693-2708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QI00543E

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