Interest in Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) has escalated in recent years due to potential applications in gas storage, catalysis and ion-exchange. The growing demand for these multifunctional materials imposes expectations of certain properties, which are often met by variations in construction and choice of linking ligands.
This Advance Article by Francisco Javier Martínez Casado and colleagues from […]
2D and 3D coordination networks with fullerene guests are promising candidates for superconducting materials, with potential applications in gas and information storage.
Edwin Constable and colleagues at the University of Basel, Switzerland have reported the intercalation of a fullerene molecule into a network containing octahedral nickel nodes. Using a layering technique, crystals of 1,2-dichlorobenzene and fullerene […]
Solid form informatics is the use of knowledge-based techniques to evaluate and analyse structures, as well as to predict properties. Identifying solid forms of drugs with suitable physiochemical properties and reducing the late-stage appearance of additional drug forms are very attractive financial prospects for the pharmaceutical industry.
In this CrystEngComm advance article, Peter Galek and colleagues […]
The reknowned capabilities of TiO2-based materials in photocatalytic oxidation of organic pollutants and in photoelectrochemical conversion of solar energy are inherently limited by the poor quantum efficiency of titanium. Research in this area is targeting improved generation and separation of photoinduced electron-hole pairs in TiO2 in order to enhance photocatalytic activity.
In this CrystEngComm Advance Article, […]
Claire Murray talks to Nobel Prizewinner Dan Shechtman for CrystEngComm…….
Gautam Desiraju talks to CrystEngComm about his passion for research and the growth of crystal engineering
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Dan Shechtman from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel “for the discovery of quasicrystals”. His discovery of a ten-fold diffraction pattern from the rapidly cooled alloys of Al with 10—14 at. % Mn, Fe, or Cr in […]
Water contamination by synthetic organic chemicals is a burgeoning global problem due to the difficult degradation of these materials. Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) has been identified as promising photocatalyst for environmental applications because of its stability in water without altering the pH value. A very low band gap of 2.4 keV also means there is potential […]
Supramolecular synthons based on halogen bonding have been identified as excellent tools for the design and synthesis of supramolecular architectures. This growing field in crystal engineering has led to many discoveries of new and exciting intermolecular bonding motifs.
In this advance article, Kari Raatikainen and Kari Rissanen from the University of Jyväskylä report extremely short X···N […]