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Publishing frequency: 48 issues per year
Chair: Pierangelo Metrangolo
Scope
CrystEngComm is the forum for the design and understanding of crystalline materials. We welcome studies on the investigation of molecular behaviour within crystals, control of nucleation and crystal growth, engineering of crystal structures, and construction of crystalline materials with tuneable properties and functions.
We publish hypothesis-driven research into…
how crystal design affects thermodynamics, phase transitional behaviours, polymorphism, morphology control, solid state reactivity (crystal-crystal solution-crystal, and gas-crystal reactions), optoelectronics, ferroelectric materials, non-linear optics, molecular and bulk magnetism, conductivity and quantum computing, catalysis, absorption and desorption, and mechanical properties.
Using Techniques and methods including…
Single crystal and powder X-ray, electron, and neutron diffraction, solid-state spectroscopy, spectrometry, and microscopy, modelling and data mining, and empirical, semi-empirical and ab-initio theoretical evaluations.
On crystalline and solid-state materials.
We particularly welcome work on MOFs, coordination polymers, nanocrystals, host-guest and multi-component molecular materials. We also accept work on peptides and liquid crystals.
All papers should involve the use or development of a design or optimisation strategy. Routine structural reports or crystal morphology descriptions, even when combined with an analysis of properties or potential applications, are generally considered to be outside the scope of the journal and are unlikely to be accepted.
Chair
Pierangelo Metrangolo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Associate editors
Susan Bourne, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Christian Doonan, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Kwangyeol Lee, Korea University, Korea
C. Malla Reddy, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India
Dongfeng Xue, Shandong University, China
Editorial board members
Elena Boldyreva, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
Aurora Cruz-Cabeza, University of Manchester, UK
Omar K Farha, Northwestern University, USA
Tong-Bu Lu, Tianjin University of Technology, China
Susan Reutzel-Edens, Eli Lilly and Company, USA
Leonard Barbour, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Josef Breu, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Paola Ceroni, University of Bologna, Italy
Xiao-Ming Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Jack Clegg, University of Queensland, Australia
Leroy Cronin, University of Glasgow, UK
Miao Du, Tianjin Normal University, China
Georg Garnweitner, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Christoph Janiak, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Bart Kahr, University of Washington, USA
Andrzej Katrusiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Leonard MacGillivray, University of Iowa, USA
Ashwini Nangia, University of Hyderabad, India
Pance Naumov, NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi
Keiichiro Ogawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Lars Öhrström, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Hiroki Oshio, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Simon Parsons, University of Edinburgh, UK
Concepcio Rovira, Institute Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona, Spain
T N Guru Row, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
George Shimizu, University of Calgary, Canada
Wei-Yin Sun, Nanjing University, China
Masaki Takata, University of Tokyo, Japan
Praveen Thallapally, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Piero Ugliengo, Universita di Torino, Italy
S-H Yu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Hongjie Zhang, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China
Andrew Shore, Editor, ORCID 0000-0002-4144-7197
Mike Andrews, Deputy Editor, ORCID 0000-0003-3762-8523
Michelle Canning, Development Editor
Susannah Davies, Editorial Production Manager
Paige Boxhall, Publishing Editor
Debora Giovanelli, Publishing Editor
Helen Lunn, Publishing Editor
Samuel Oldknow, Publishing Editor
Daphne Houston, Editorial Assistant
Huw Hedges, Publishing Assistant
Jeanne Andres, Publisher
Journal specific guidelines
The journal's editorial policy is that the use of the words 'novel', 'new' and 'unprecedented' in article titles should not, in general, be used, unless the work described in the article is of significant impact.
In addition, for articles which describe the synthesis or applications of crystals on the nano- or micro-scale, authors should only use descriptive terms that are widely accepted in the literature (eg nanocrystal, nanostructure, nanoparticle, nanowire, nanotube, nanosphere, nanorod), to aid article discoverability via, for example, online searches. In addition, morphology descriptors such as 'flower-like' and other similar terms should not be included in the article title.
The following guidelines are journal specific. For general guidance on preparing an article please visit our Prepare your article and Resources for authors pages, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals.
Readership information
Researchers in industry and academia working in the following fields.
- Solid-state inorganic and organic chemistry
- Materials chemistry
- Crystallography
- Crystal growth
- Crystal engineering
Subscription information
CrystEngComm is part of collections RSC Gold and Materials Science.
Online only 2021: ISSN 1466-8033 £1,207 / $1,792
*2019 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)
** Average time from receipt to first decision in 2020
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