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Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of February 2016!

Rapid, green and inexpensive synthesis of high quality UiO-66 amino-functionalized materials with exceptional capability for removal of hexavalent chromium from industrial waste
Sofia Rapti, Anastasia Pournara, Debajit Sarma, Ioannis T. Papadas, Gerasimos S. Armatas, Youssef S. Hassan, Mohamed H. Alkordi, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and Manolis J. Manos
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00303B

Hollow mesoporous SiO₂ sphere nanoarchitectures with encapsulated silver nanoparticles for catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol
Weiqiang Li, Xiao Ge, Hao Zhang, Qianqian Ding, Hualin Ding, Yunxia Zhang, Guozhong Wang, Haimin Zhang and Huijun Zhao
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6QI00002A

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of January 2016!

Effects of hydroxyl group variations on a flavonoid backbone toward modulation of metal-free and metal-induced amyloid-β aggregation
Hyuck Jin Lee, Richard A. Kerr, Kyle J. Korshavn, Jeeyeon Lee, Juhye Kang, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Brandon T. Ruotolo and Mi Hee Lim
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00219B

Cu₂O clusters grown on TiO₂ nanoplates as efficient photocatalysts for hydrogen generation
Kun Zhao, Shenlong Zhao, Jian Qi, Huajie Yin, Chao Gao, Abdul Muqsit Khattak, Yijin Wu, Azhar Iqbal, Lei Wu, Yan Gao, Ranbo Yu and Zhiyong Tang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00284B

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles of December 2015!

Reduction of thermal conductivity through nanostructuring enhances the thermoelectric figure of merit in Ge_1−xBi_xTe
Suresh Perumal, Subhajit Roychowdhury and Kanishka Biswas
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016,3, 125-132
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00230C,

Designing structurally tunable and functionally versatile synthetic supercontainers
Feng-Rong Dai, Yupu Qiao and Zhenqiang Wang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00212E

Mechanochromic Cu(I) boron imidazolate frameworks with low-dimensional structures and reducing function
De-Xiang Zhang, Hai-Xia Zhang, Tian Wen, Dong-Sheng Li and Jian Zhang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00155B

Morphology–activity correlation in hydrogen evolution catalyzed by cobalt sulfides
Bo You, Nan Jiang and Yujie Sun
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00196J

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to share with you the HOT articles from 2015. The papers are recommended by our referees for the high novelty and significance of reported studies.

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Cation reduction and comproportionation as novel strategies to produce high voltage, halide free, carborane based electrolytes for rechargeable Mg batteries

Scott. G. McArthur, Linxiao Geng, Juchen Guo and Vincent Lavallo

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1101-1104
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00171D

Tuning oxygen-sensing behaviour of a porous coordination framework by a guest fluorophore
Rui-Biao Lin, Hao-Long Zhou, Chun-Ting He, Jie-Peng Zhang and Xiao-Ming Chen

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1085-1090
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00157A

Oxygen activation by copper camphor complexes

Alexandra P. S. Roseiro, Pedro Adão, Adelino M. Galvão, João Costa Pessoa, Ana M. Botelho do Rego and M. Fernanda N. N. Carvalho

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1019-1028
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00064E

Multichromophoric di-anchoring sensitizers incorporating a ruthenium complex and an organic triphenyl amine dye for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Pei-Yang Su, Jun-Min Liu, Xue-Lian Lin, Yi-Fan Chen, Yong- Shen, Li-Min Xiao, Dai-Bin Kuang and Cheng-Yong Su

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1040-1044
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00095E

Stable iso-bacteriochlorin mimics from porpholactone: effect of a β-oxazolone moiety on the frontier π-molecular orbitals

Yi Yu, Taniyuki Furuyama, Juan Tang, Zhuo-Yan Wu, Jia-Zhen Chen, Nagao Kobayashi and Jun-Long Zhang

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 671-677
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00054H

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Tuning oxygen-sensing behaviour of a porous coordination framework by a guest fluorophore
Rui-Biao Lin, Hao-Long Zhou, Chun-Ting He, Jie-Peng Zhang and Xiao-Ming Chen
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1085-1090
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00157A

Cation reduction and comproportionation as novel strategies to produce high voltage, halide free, carborane based electrolytes for rechargeable Mg batteries
Scott. G. McArthur, Linxiao Geng, Juchen Guo and Vincent Lavallo
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1101-1104
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00171D

Microstructure construction and composition modification of CeO₂ macrospheres with superior performance
Shuaiyu Jiang, Xiaodan Yang, Jun Chen, Xianran Xing, Lianzhou Wang and Ranbo Yu
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00140D

A surfactant-thermal method to prepare crystalline thioantimonate for high-performance lithium-ion batteries
Lina Nie, Yu Zhang, Wei-Wei Xiong, Teik-Thye Lim, Rong Xu, Qingyu Yan and Qichun Zhang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00194C, Research Article

Cu/TiO₂ octahedral-shell photocatalysts derived from metal–organic framework@semiconductor hybrid structures
Rui Li, Sikai Wu, Xueying Wan, Hangxun Xu and Yujie Xiong
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00205B

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Graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide hybrids with spin crossover iron(III) complexes
Yusuke Murashima, Mohammad Razaul Karim, Naoto Saigo, Hiroshi Takehira, Ryo Ohtani, Masaaki Nakamura, Michio Koinuma, Leonard F. Lindoy, Keita Kuroiwa and Shinya Hayami
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 886-892
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00097A, Research Article

Molecular spin qubits based on lanthanide ions encapsulated in cubic polyoxopalladates: design criteria to enhance quantum coherence
José J. Baldoví, Lorena E. Rosaleny, Vasanth Ramachandran, Jonathan Christian, Naresh S. Dalal, Juan M. Clemente-Juan, Peng Yang, Ulrich Kortz, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño and Eugenio Coronado
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 893-897
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00142K, Research Article

A soil/Vulcan XC-72 hybrid as a highly-effective catalytic cathode for rechargeable Li–O2 batteries
Xiaofei Hu, Xiaorui Fu and Jun Chen
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1006-1010
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00149H, Research Article

Oxygen activation by copper camphor complexes
Alexandra P. S. Roseiro, Pedro Adão, Adelino M. Galvão, João Costa Pessoa, Ana M. Botelho do Rego and M. Fernanda N. N. Carvalho
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1019-1028
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00064E, Research Article

Multichromophoric di-anchoring sensitizers incorporating a ruthenium complex and an organic triphenyl amine dye for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells
Pei-Yang Su, Jun-Min Liu, Xue-Lian Lin, Yi-Fan Chen, Yong- Shen, Li-Min Xiao, Dai-Bin Kuang and Cheng-Yong Su
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1040-1044
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00095E, Research Article

Ultra-rapid microwave synthesis of Li3−x−yMxN (M = Co, Ni and Cu) nitridometallates
Nuria Tapia-Ruiz, Josefa Vidal Laveda, Ronald I. Smith, Serena A. Corr and Duncan H. Gregory
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1045-1050
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00145E, Research Article

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A soil/Vulcan XC-72 hybrid as a highly-effective catalytic cathode for rechargeable Li–O₂ batteries

Xiaofei Hu, Xiaorui Fu and Jun Chen

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 1006-1010
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00149H, Research Article