Themed collection Most downloaded articles of 2017: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

One-dimensional nanoassemblies obtained by the columnar stacking of hydrogen-bonded supermacrocycles (rosettes) comprising π-conjugated molecules.

In this review, we highlight recent approaches that facilitate integrative self-sorting of ’naked’ metal ions and ligands to form multi-component, heteroleptic cage structures.

The present feature article assembles recent rapid progress in the coordination nanosheet (CONASH), the interest of which traverses from basic to materials science.

This review highlights relevant studies of light-controlled molecular containers able to catch and release small molecules.

This feature article discusses solution-phase routes to semiconducting two-dimensional black phosphorus (‘phosphorene’) and highlights challenges in processing the material as well as illuminating new avenues and opportunities in the area.

This review summarizes alternative approaches for MOF synthesis by using solvent-insoluble “solid matters” as cation reservoirs and/or templates.

We demonstrate a facile approach for the synthesis of –CN– linked covalent organic frameworks under ambient conditions.

Integration of a building block that interacts only weakly with CO₂ to the backbone of covalent organic frameworks reveals profound collective effects on facilitating CO₂ uptake and separation.

By employing a robust and non-coplanar building block strategy, a triptycene-based hydrogen-bonded organic framework was constructed with almost no sacrifice of molecular surfaces, and it was capable of incorporating C60 molecules in high concentration in the channels with tailored fitting.

A highly porous metal–organic framework with large pores presents large molecule based applications probed by organic dye molecules.

The first polymer–MOF hybrid material (polyMOF) with a UiO-66 architecture is reported, prepared from polymers with varying alkyl spacers, molecular weights, and dispersities.

A model has been established to construct covalent organic frameworks (COFs) by taking advantage of the variable orientation of imine bonds, from which an unprecedented heterodromous orientation of CN linkages in the COFs was observed.

We show here a self-limiting layer-by-layer growth of a CdS shell on PbS cores.

Phase-stable perovskite CsPbI₃ nanocrystals have been prepared by replacing conventionally used oleic acid with a phosphinic acid in their synthesis.