Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

Following the success of Peer Review Week in September 2016 (dedicated to reviewer recognition) during which we published a list of our top reviewers, we are delighted to announce that we will continue to recognise the contribution that our reviewers make to the journal by announcing our Outstanding Reviewers each year.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Doctor Wentuan Bi, University of Science and Technology of China

Professor Anthony Cozzolino, Texas Tech University

Doctor Tomoya Ishizuka, University of Tsukuba

Professor David Lou, Nanyang Technological University

Professor Michael Nippe, Texas A&M University

Professor Jinkui Tang, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry

Professor Zhiyong Tang, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology

Professor Ming-Liang Tong, Sun Yat-Sen University

Professor Chong Xiao, University of Science and Technology of China

Doctor Yang Xu, Ilmenau University of Technology

We would also like to thank the Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers board and the Inorganic Chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online.

The front cover story, Energy-efficient electrolytic hydrogen generation using a Cu₃P nanoarray as a bifunctional catalyst for hydrazine oxidation and water reduction is contributed by  Meng Liu, Rong Zhang, Lixue Zhang, Danni Liu, Shuai Hao, Gu Du, Abdullah M. Asiri, Rongmei Kong and Xuping Sun.

Following review article is included in current issue:
Switchable catalytic processes involving the copolymerization of epoxides and carbon dioxide for the preparation of block polymers
Donald J. Darensbourg
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 412-419
DOI: 10.1039/C7QI00013H

The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online.

The front cover story, Fabrication of morphology-preserved microporous carbon from a zeolitic-like porous coordination polymer is contributed by Bihang Zhou, Yinying Hua, Fujun Cheng, Jingui Duan, Lingyun Chen and Wanqin Jin.

Following review articles are included in current issue:

Coordination frameworks containing compounds as catalysts
Girijesh Kumar and Samar K. Das
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 202-233
DOI: 10.1039/C6QI00358

The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online.

The front cover story, Structure determination of modulated structures by powder X-ray diffraction and electron diffraction is contributed by Zhengyang Zhou, Lukáš Palatinus and Junliang Sun.

The inside cover this month features an article on Fluorescence tuning of Zn(II)-based metallo-supramolecular coordination polymers and their application for picric acid detection by Hong-Qing Li, Zhong-Yu Ding, Yao Pan, Chun-Hua Liu and Yuan-Yuan Zhu.

The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online. 

The front cover story,  Efficient concurrent removal of sulfur and nitrogen contents from complex oil mixtures by using polyoxometalate-based composite materials is contributed by Zhixiao Yao, Haralampos N. Miras and Yu-Fei Song.

The inside cover this month features an article on A paper-based lanthanide smart device for acid–base vapour detection, anti-counterfeiting and logic operations by Xiang Li, Hao Chen, Alexander M. Kirillov, Yujie Xie, Changfu Shan, Bingkai Wang, Chunling Shi and Yu Tang.

Following review articles and highlight are also included in the current issue:

2p–3d–4f hetero-tri-spin molecule-based magnetic compounds
Mei Zhu, Licun Li and Jean-Pascal Sutter
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 994-1003
DOI: 10.1039/C6QI00075D

New way to multi-shelled hollow spheres for robust battery electrode
Hong Jin Fan
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 1004-1006
DOI: 10.1039/C6QI00135A