Crystal Clear

August

Crystal Clear bends the rules! In this CrystEngComm Highlight article C. Malla Reddy and coworkers present an overview of very recent advances in the understanding of structure-mechanical property correlations in molecular crystals, including these extraordinary images showing a C6Cl6 crystal bending.

Images adapted with permission from C. Malla Reddy et al., Crystal Growth & Design, 2006, 6, 2720. Copyright 2006 American Chemical Society. 

July

Crystal Clear looks at the X-factor! In this CrystEngComm paper André Müller and colleagues explore shape-controlled electrodeposition of tin crystals from Sn(II)-fluoroborate solutions and produce an array of eXciting structures.  

June

Crystal Clear shows you the ropes! In this CrystEngComm Highlight article Hiroaki Imai and Yuya Oaki discuss the twisted growth of inorganic and organic crystals including detailed observation of the backbone structures and the chirality tuning of the helices. 

Images adapted with permission from Yuya Oaki et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004, 126, 9271 and Yuya Oaki et al., Langmuir, 2007, 23, 5466.  Copyright 2004 and 2007 American Chemical Society.

May

This month sees psychedelica come to Crystal Clear....Gary Enright and colleagues show that adamantane templates surprisingly complex packing motifs when incorporated into beta-cyclodextrin hosts.

April

Crystal Clear turns to cubism this month....Moonhyun Oh and colleagues create fantastic hexapod crystals based on cubes using zinc coordination polymer particles.

March

Kun-Hong Lee and co-workers embrace vitamin C as the Andy Warhol of chemistry and create a stimulating array of ZnO nanostructures.

February

Nataraj and co-workers conjure intricate Fe2O3 snowflakes by hydrothermal synthesis.

January

Tellurium flowers burst into bloom, nurtured by Wang and co-workers with biphasic solvothermal reactions.