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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 3h

🧪 "MOFs" or "Coordination Polymers"? Interested in the terminology behind this year's Chemistry #NobelPrize? Read this paper by Lars Öhrström, with coworkers including winner Susumu Kitagawa. Cited in the Scientific Background to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: doi.org/10.1039/C2CE...

Coordination polymers, metal–organic frameworks and the need for terminology guidelines

Coordination polymers (CPs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are among the most prolific research areas of inorganic chemistry and crystal engineering in the last 15 years, and yet it still seems t...

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 5h

To celebrate the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆 #chemsky Free to read until the end of November: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

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Celebrating the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Be inspired by our cross-journal collection

Read now

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Ashlee Howarth @chemashlee.bsky.social · 16h

Great timing for our review and cover art in @crystengcomm.rsc.org !! Congrats to Micaela and Pedro for writing a very nice highlight on RE-UiO-66 😊

CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 20h

🔓The cover of issue 39 showcases #OpenAccess Highlight by @chemashlee.bsky.social & co discussing the developments in synthesis and characterisation of RE-UiO-66, a rare-earth cluster-based MOF with fcu net, read it here⬇️

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📍 @concordia.ca, @cicbiomagune.bsky.social 🧪

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 1d

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are this year's winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on MOFs – just a few grams of these materials can have the same surface area as a football pitch. Julia Robinson with the details.

2025 chemistry Nobel prize goes to the scientists behind metal–organic frameworks

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi take top prize for discovery and development of versatile materials with a huge surface area

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 20h

Read the full issue, here: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

CrystEngComm Home-Design and understanding of solid-state and crystalline materials Editors-in-Chief: Christian Doonan and C. Malla Reddy Impact factor: 2.6 Time to fir...

Design and understanding of solid-state and crystalline materials Editors-in-Chief: Christian Doonan and C. Malla Reddy Impact factor: 2.6 Time to first decision (peer reviewed only):...

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 20h

🔓The cover of issue 39 showcases #OpenAccess Highlight by @chemashlee.bsky.social & co discussing the developments in synthesis and characterisation of RE-UiO-66, a rare-earth cluster-based MOF with fcu net, read it here⬇️

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📍 @concordia.ca, @cicbiomagune.bsky.social 🧪

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 5d

My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography

Useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures

Single crystal diffraction analysis remains the gold standard for the three-dimensional atomic structure characterization of framework materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic fram...

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 6d

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess article by Ruohan Zhang & J. Axel Zeitler: "Mechanochemical cocrystallisation in a simplified mechanical model: decoupling kinetics and mechanisms using THz-TDS". Well worth a read! 👀👇

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍 @ceb.cam.ac.uk 🧪

Mechanical compaction plays a dual role in mechanochemical cocrystallisation, simultaneously influencing reaction rates and crystallisation pathways.

CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 6d

🔓"Metal organic framework with high water stability and dense open metal sites for carbon monoxide capture" – Don't miss this #OpenAccess article by Jing Li & co. 👇

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍 @rutgersu.bsky.social

Co2Cl2(bbta) features a high density of open metal sites (3.8 nm−3) and demonstrates good performance for CO capture, with an uptake capacity of 3.06 mmol g−3 at 298 K.

CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 7d

🔓Be sure to read the recent #OpenAccess article by Simon N. Black: "Sources of symmetry in ‘Blind Tests’ crystal structures". Molecules create crystals via Symthons that embody long-range order.

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍 @durham-university.bsky.social 🧪

Molecules create crystals via Symthons that embody long-range order.

CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 7d

🔓 Don't miss the #OpenAccess Highlight review by Takashi Ito & Elise Skinner describing electrochemistry-induced deposition for controlled formation of metal–organic framework films on insulator and conductor substrates. Read it here! 👇

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍 @kstate.bsky.social 🧪

Zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) thin films of controlled thickness and area can be formed under a cathodic working electrode, showcasing a simple means of direct fabrication of thin metal–organic framework (MOF) films on various substrates.

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 8d

Issue 38 is online now! 👇
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The front cover showcases work by Mukesh Kumar, Ashutosh Sharma & co. highlighting advances in boron nitride nanostructures: from h-BN to BN nanotubes and quantum dots for energy applications. Take a look! 👇👀

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...

CrystEngComm front cover for vol 27, issue 38.

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 14d

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper by @franemmerling.bsky.social, Torvid Feiler & Biswajit Bhattacharya highlighting a sustainable mechanochemical approach for the selective synthesis of multicomponent organic solids: real-time in situ insights👇

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍 @bamresearch.bsky.social 🧪

Multicomponent organic solids (cocrystals, ionic cocrystals) form via noncovalent forces. Solution growth yields mixed phases, while mechanochemistry enables pure, scalable synthesis. In situ PXRD reveals solvent/grinding-controlled transformations.

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 14d

Issue 37 is online! Browse all the recently published work in this issue 👇

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 21d

🔓 Inside cover article: Experimental and theoretical investigations of the optical & photoluminescence behaviour of a tetramorphic ternary molecular salt cocrystal – a quantum crystallography perspective by Anna Krawczuk, Andreas Lemmerer & co. Check it out! 👀👇

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#OpenAccess 🧪

CrystEngComm inside front cover for vol 27, issue 36.

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 21d

🚨Join us for our 2024 Outstanding Paper Award Desktop Seminar, with Thomas Pickles, Alastair Florence, Cameron Brown, Vaclav Svoboda and Ivan Marziano

💻 Live & on-demand
📅 23rd Sept, 10am BST

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🔓Read the Outstanding Paper: doi.org/10.1039/D4CE...

#Chemsky

Slide for our upcoming CrystEngComm 2024 Outstanding Paper Award Desktop Seminar, "Integration of a model-driven workflow into an industrial pharmaceutical facility: supporting process development of API crystallisation"

💻 Live & on-demand
📅 23rd Sept, 10am BST

CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 22d

This week's front cover showcases an article by Jin Yeong Kim and co. reporting a ligand-responsive MOF-based colourimetric sensor for visual identification of colourless corrosive acid and base vapours; read it here 👀👇🧪

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍 Seoul National University

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 23d

Issue 36 is now online, access it here👇

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 28d

Issue 35 is here!👇
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#OpenAccess cover article: Influence of varying the nickel salt aqueous subphase on the formation of Ni3(hexaiminotriphenylene)2 MOF nanosheets at the air/liquid interface by Rie Makiura & co⬇️

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍Osaka Metropolitan University

CrystEngComm outside front cover for vol 27, issue 35.

CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · Aug 28

🌟Find out more about the authors behind the 2024 CrystEngComm Outstanding Paper in our blog post:

blogs.rsc.org/ce/2025/08/2...

If you haven't already seen it be sure to read their outstanding #openaccess paper 👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D4CE...

Authors of the CrystEngComm Outstanding Paper Award, 2024.

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · Aug 28

🔓Don't miss the #OpenAccess article by Aron Huckaba and co-workers on understanding the relationship between the crystal structure elastic–plastic properties of discrete-molecule organic–inorganic halide perovskites👇🧪

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍 @universityofky.bsky.social

This work pushes our understanding on the relationship between the structure of discrete-molecule hybrid perovskites and their elastic properties.

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · Aug 28

🔓 Take a look at the recent #OpenAccess article by Mike Zaworotko and colleagues at the Bernal Institute, @unioflimerick.bsky.social, on water vapour sorption properties of a family of square lattice topology porous coordination networks. 👇🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...

The family of coordination networks sql-M-aqua (M = Mn, Ni, Co, Zn) each exhibit an S-shaped water sorption isotherm, fast uptake kinetics, and hydrolytic stability over 100 cycles, ideal for atmospheric water harvesting at 0–30% relative humidity.

CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · Aug 27

Issue 34 is published and available to read! Browse all the recently published work in this issue 👇

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CrystEngComm front cover for vol 27, issue 34.

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · Aug 19

Issue 33 is here!👇
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Cover article: The interplay between coordination & non-covalent interactions in 3 Zn coordination polymers by Shouvik Chattopadhyay, @tonifrontera.bsky.social & co. 👀⬇️

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍 Jadavpur University, dquimicauib.bsky.social

CrystEngComm outside front cover for vol 27, issue 33.

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · Aug 18

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Outstanding Paper, 2024 Award!

🎉Congratulations to Thomas Pickles, Václav Svoboda, Ivan Marziano, Cameron Brown & Alastair Florence👏

🔓Read their outstanding article here👇 doi.org/10.1039/D4CE...

📍CMAC, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social Pfzier
🧪 #ChemSky

Resource efficient yet scalable pharmaceutical crystallisation process development using a model-driven workflow.

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