Themed collection 2023 Highlight article collection

Critical review of the advanced experimental approaches to measure the main thermodynamic parameters and to guide establishing the necessary conditions to perform a protein crystallization assay: methodologies, set-ups, and future directions.

The regulation of pathological crystallization had made great progress during the last two decades. The inhibitor of pathological mineralization and its mechanisms are overviewed.

This review outlined the crucial importance of pharmaceutical cocrystals in chiral resolution techniques of racemic compounds.

This review provides a comprehensive overview of emerging porous materials and their sonochemical applications.

The role of directionality and dimensionality of hydrogen-bonded synthons in the flexibility of organic crystals has been discussed.

This highlight article features selected examples of heterogeneous catalytic reactions using traditional inorganic materials such as silica, aluminium-based materials, and zeolites to the evolution of these reactions using novel metal–organic frameworks (MOFs).

Microfluidics, involving chemical or physical phenomena at the submillimeter length scale under continuous flow, allows the controlled reaction, assembly, and exfoliation of nanomaterials by adjusting the momentum, heat, and mass transfer.

This review mainly focused on the latest achievements in the application of copper cobaltate-based nanomaterials as supercapacitor electrodes.

The quantum chemical calculation of the strength of a primary noncovalent bond within a crystal must navigate numerous complicating issues. Choice of geometry, polarizing effects of substituents, and delocalized interactions, must all be considered.

Tin(II) phthalocyanine and naphthalocyanine form stable M–Sn bonds yielding coordination complexes with transition metal fragments. In this review, we discuss the syntheses, structures and properties of such complexes.

Collective information on the electrocatalytic activity, selectivity, durability, and reaction mechanisms of the pristine MOF-based catalysts for electrocatalytic reactions such as ORR, OER, HER, and CO₂RR is presented.

This review summarizes recent progress in the synthesis of 2D ternary TMDC-based vertical heterostructures via three strategies and the novel physical properties.

This overview, summarizing recent progresses in the fabrication of multi-functional oxide nanomaterials for sustainable and environmental end-uses, sheds light on the interplay between their chemico-physical features and functional properties.

This highlight article summarizes recent research trends of organic transistors and charge-transfer complexes/salts that are derived from organic semiconductors.

The recent progress in optical applications of organic donor–acceptor co-crystals is reviewed in terms of material design, synthetic approach and future perspectives.

The process intensification (PI) technologies and strategies for crystal growth were summarized and discussed.

The membrane crystallization process can be divided into membrane distillation, reaction, antisolvent, and cooling crystallization processes.

This study discusses the ability of bound bismuth in molecular entities to participate in non-covalent bonding interactions and hence features Bi-centered pnictogen bonds in crystal lattices and nanoscale materials.

This review mainly summarizes the recent progress of MOFs composed of N-heterocyclic carboxylate ligands in gas sorption/separation. This work may help to understand the relationship between the structures of MOFs and gas sorption/separation.

This manuscript systematically reviews the importance of wet etching and thermal annealing in GaN crystal applications for the first time.

Photo-functionalized metal–organic frameworks with unique structures and rich fluorescent components exhibit different levels of optical anti-counterfeiting under various types of stimulation.

The importance of Se⋯N chalcogen-bonding in supramolecular assembly is demonstrated.