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Updates on the chemistry and engineering of crystals and polymorphism. Published by @rsc.org 🌐 Website: rsc.li/CrystEngComm

CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 28.
Infographic for the CrystEngComm Outstanding Paper Award, 2025 illustrating simulating crystallite protonation, local reorganization, and dissolution using instantaneous pK.
A thermochromic and potential X-ray radiation detector based on a lead-free 2D Dion–Jacobson type double metal halide perovskite (C3H12N2)2AgBiBr8.
Positional isomerism in pyridyl naphthalene diimide formic acid co-crystals controls reversible photochromic switching behaviour upon UV irradiation via a proton-coupled electron transfer type mechanism.
Title slide for a CrystEngComm article "MOFs for uranium management: synthesis to data-driven design" by Marcus Hedberg and Lars Öhrström, showing icons for mining, transport, nuclear waste, recycling, and the Royal Society of Chemistry logo.
Crystal engineering of Ce-MOFs enables control of Ce3+/Ce4+ redox chemistry, oxygen vacancies, and metal–ceria interfaces, guiding the design of defect-rich MOF-derived catalysts.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 26.
The development of III-nitride NWQDs for single-photon sources, strategies to overcome the limitations restricting room-temperature operation and faster switching speed, and their potential for a photonic qubit quantum computer are discussed.
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CrystEngComm back cover for vol 28, issue 23.
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CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 23.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 23.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 22.
Numerous examples of the linear connection between chalconium cation and anionic ligands have been spotted in CSD. Unlike typical ionic bonds, these strong interactions between ions exhibit directionality.
CrystEngComm promotional graphic for the Editors' Choice Collection.
Under light, a single-crystalline COP (CityU-69) with B ← N bonds and dual photosensitive motifs efficiently degrades MB and MO via synergistic h+, ·OH, and ·O2− action.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 21.
Crystal packing changes upon stepwise introduction of dipole blades.
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CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 19.
The racemic compound forming character of the chiral D-/L-homophenylalanine/water system was revealed, single crystal structures of the L- and DL-species obtained, and a decomposition-dominated thermal behaviour of the racemic compound found.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 18.
Potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystals are key materials in high-power laser, nonlinear optics, and optoelectronic functional fields.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 17.
In situ observations of CaCO3 formation near polysaccharides (PSs) using LP-TEM show nucleation is favored at PS–TEM membrane–solution interfaces. Timing and size are also dependent on macromolecular and solution properties of the interphase region.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 17.
Slide announcing the CrystEngComm Emerging Talent Series.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 16.
A slide highlighting our latest Editorial – The crystal engineering foundations of the MOF Nobel Prize
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 16.
Crystal structure generation via polyhedral tiling: we encode space-filling polyhedra as a dual periodic graph and generate crystal structures through the standard realization of this graph.
High-pressure synthesis in the system V2O5–VO2 yields materials with the rutile-related structures in a wide compositional range.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 15.
New salts of alendronate anions with phosphonium cations wherein diverse supramolecular properties leads to 2-D layered materials having excellent solubility.
Crystallinity enhances DAE photoisomerization by enabling reactive packing or limiting relaxation.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 14.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 14.
A deep dive into mechanochemical organic reactions by accurate crystallographic analysis via TAAM refinement
Pharmaceutical multicomponent form screening can be accelerated by coupling high-throughput resonant acoustic mixing with structural elucidation by electron diffraction.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 13.
Molecular Crystal Engineering has been used at the University of Bologna for the preparation of metal complexes, to be used to tackle (i) antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and (ii) environmental pollution caused by urea degradation by soil enzymes.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 12.
Promotional slide highlighting a Tutorial review from CrystEngComm entitled A beginner's guide to spin crossover by Phimphaka Harding and David J. Harding
We debate the role of liquid additives in liquid-assisted mechanochemistry, highlighting how miniscule amounts of liquid profoundly and mostly inexplicably affect the mechanism and outcomes of mechanochemical reactions. A critical analysis of well-known mechanochemistry studies, along with those reporting emerging concepts (such as the competitive liquid effect and dual-function liquids) underpins the complexity and mystery surrounding mechanochemical processes and suggest where the most series gaps in our understanding of mechanochemistry lie.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 11.
Waxes in the leaf cuticle act as a barrier to water loss as well as to agrochemicals. The structural origins in the varied but remarkably consistent (dis)ordering of long-chain hydrocarbons holds the key to refining mechanisms to control properties.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 10.
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CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 9.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 9.
Promotional slide highlighting a Tutorial review from CrystEngComm entitled The anti-crystal engineering principles of imidazolium cations for ionic liquids by Patrick C. Hillesheim and Arsalan Mirjafari.
CrystEngComm back cover for vol 28, issue 8.
CrystEngComm inside front cover for vol 28, issue 8.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 8.
CrystEngComm front cover for vol 28, issue 8.
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