Don't miss the collaborative Highlight review by Vânia André, Luísa M. D. R. S. Martins, @tonifrontera.bsky.social & Kamran Mahmudov & co: Effect of a single chalcogen atom variation on the chalcogen bond parameters: CSD analysis and theoretical calculations 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 🧪

🔓Be sure to read the recent #OpenAccess work by Michael J. Zaworotko and colleagues reporting the crystal engineering of nickel(II) coordination networks sustained by aliphatic dicarboxylate linker ligands 👀👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @unioflimerick.bsky.social 🧪

🔓Work by Paul J. Saines & co. is featured on the back cover this week. The crystal structure of a recently discovered dihydrochloride metformin salt is discussed in the article: Analysis of a new hydrochloride salt of the common pharmaceutical metformin 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @kent.ac.uk 🧪

🔓The issue 48 front cover showcases the #OpenAccess article by Erik Uran and Matic Lozinšek which reports hydrogen-bonded salt cocrystals of xenon difluoride and protonated perfluoroamides. Read it here ⬇️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 Jozef Stefan Institute 🧪

🔓Included in issue 48: A HOT #OpenAccess Highlight article by Stefania Liakaki-Stavropoulou & Konstantinos D Demadis exploring Chemical consolidants for cultural heritage preservation: does crystal engineering have a role to play? Check it out 👇🔥 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 University of Crete 🧪

Our final issue of 2025 is now published! Read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

👀Take a look at the work by M. Kawahata, K.Yamaguchi & co on the inside front cover on tetrameric H-shaped assemblies as a motif in inclusion crystals of bent-shaped host molecules having nitrophenol moieties👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍Showa Pharmaceutical University; Tokushima Bunri University 🧪

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess work by Iain D. H. Oswald and co-workers reporting pressure-induced phase behaviour and compressibility of the racemic and chiral solid forms, ofloxacin and levofloxacin⬇️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social 🧪

This week the cover features work by Hiroki Fukumoto, Masato Morita & co. on co-crystallization of benzothiazole via halogen & hydrogen bonding: crystal structure & photoluminescence properties. Read it here⬇️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 Ibaraki University; Kyoto Institute of Technology 🧪

🔓Don't miss this #OpenAccess communication by Vinko Nemec, Dominik Cincic & co. examining halopyridinium cations as bifunctional donors of halogen and hydrogen bonds in salts with benzenesulfonic and p-toluenesulfonic acids.👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 🧪 📍University of Zagreb

🎉Issue 47 is published! Read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

This week's inside front cover features a Highlight review by Jose V. Parambil, Aijaz Dar & co. highlighting crystal engineering considerations for pharmaceutical co-crystals. Learn more!👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 Indian Institute of Technology, Patna; University of Kashmir 🧪

The article behind the cover this week is by Suguru Ito and colleagues at Yokohama National University and describes reprecipitation-driven access to solvates and solvent-free crystals: achieving two-solvent-mediated vapochromic luminescence. Read it here! ⬇️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 🧪

🔓Don't miss the recent #OpenAccess work by Paul Raithby and co-workers which reports manipulating vapochromic or solvatochromic properties of platinum(II) pincer complexes through ligand modifications. Take a look! 👀 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍@bathchem.bsky.social 🧪

🎉Issue 46 is now online! Read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Really happy to see this one out in the world, top efforts by Scarlett and Corey on their final year projects (a couple of years apart mind you) with technical input from the brilliant Sian as always

🔓Be sure to read the recent #OpenAccess article by Chris Hawes and colleagues at Keele University reporting the structural chemistry and environment-dependent fluorescence of a tetratopic pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole ligand 👏⬇️ 🔗 lnkd.in/eWDyFAaM 📍@keeleuniversity.bsky.social 🧪 @cshchem.bsky.social

🔓Read the recent #openaccess work from Associate Editor Susan A. Bourne & team on non-covalent interactions in Ag(I)-lutidine and Ag(I)-halopyridine complexes: insights from crystallographic and computational studies. 👀👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍University of Cape Town 🧪 sbourne.bsky.social

🔓Recent #OpenAccess work by Vânia André & co. at the Instituto Superior Técnico is featured on this week's inside front cover. The authors report modulating the crystalline forms of silver–sulfadiazine complexes by mechanochemistry ⬇️🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...

The article behind the front cover this week is by Seungju Moon and Mazen Al-Ghoul from the American University of Beirut. The authors report fractal MOF architectures: reaction–diffusion-mediated transmutation of crystalline scaffolds. Take a look👀 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 🧪

Issue 45 is online! Read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

🔓 #OpenAccess work in the latest issue by Yang Jiang and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences describing heavily doped N-polar GaN with a mirror-like surface achieved via Ge doping. Take a look 👀👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 🧪

🎉We are delighted to share the latest in our series of Tutorial Review articles: "Identifying and characterising flexible crystals" Read our blog post to learn more about this work from Atiqur Rahman, John C McMurtrie, Sajesh P Thomas & Jack K Clegg 👇 blogs.rsc.org/ce/2025/11/1... #Chemsky 🧪

Issue 44 is now online!👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... The cover features work by Y. Tozuka, K. Kadota & co describing physically stable cyclodextrin MOFs formed via a drug-assisted amorphous to crystal phase transition 👀⬇️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University 🧪

Issue 43 is now published & ready to read!👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... The cover this week showcases a paper by H.V. Rasika Dias & co. reporting multinuclear Cu(I) and Ag(I) pyrazolates decorated with adamantyl substituents, read it here👀⬇️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @utaresearch.bsky.social 🧪

🚨We are delighted to share our latest themed collection: MOFs in Asia Guest Edited by Hoi Ri Moon, Sarah S Park and Jihye Park, this collection showcases recent advances & innovative research in the field of MOFs across Asia. Read the full collection here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #chemsky 🧪

Issue 42 is online! ⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... Featured on this week's cover: A Highlight focusing on recent advances in spin crossover Fe(II) tetrahedral metal–organic cages and their solid-state applications by Yann Garcia & co🔥👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍Université catholique de Louvain 🧪

🔓 Read #OpenAccess work by Richard I. Walton and colleagues at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social reporting solvent induced structural transformation of a cerium(III) 2,5-furandicarboxylate metal–organic framework.💡 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 🧪

Don't miss this Highlight review by Lina Zhou, Dandan Han & co exploring hierarchical MOFs and derivatives toward advanced electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage👏 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 Tianjin University 🧪

🔓 Be sure to read the #OpenAccess Highlight article by David Carriere & co reviewing liquid–liquid phase separation into reactant-rich precursors during mineral crystallization. Take a look 👀👇🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @cea.fr @univparissaclay.bsky.social

Issue 41 is online! ⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... The front cover showcases work by Masato Morita, Shigeyuki Yamada & co on the Interplay of C–H⋯F & halogen bonding interactions for tunable RT phosphorescence in iododiphenylacetylene systems 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍KIT, Ibaraki University

🔓Don't miss our most recent Tutorial Review by @stecanossa.bsky.social from @ethz.ch exploring useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures! ⬇️👏 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... #Chemsky #openaccess 🧪

🔓The cover of issue 40 features #OpenAccess work by Oksana Danylyuk & co which discusses host–guest conformational adaptation in the crystal complexes of pentamidine & p-sulfonato-calix[n]arenes – read it here⬇️🧪 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences

Oh, I just realised that I've actually published with two of the three 2025 Nobel Prize winners. How did this not occur to me before? Should I try for the complete set?

That was long and hard work... And @larsohrstrom.bsky.social is now also on bsky!

🧪 "MOFs" or "Coordination Polymers"? Interested in the terminology behind this year's Chemistry #NobelPrize? Read this paper by Lars Öhrström, with coworkers including winner Susumu Kitagawa. Cited in the Scientific Background to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: doi.org/10.1039/C2CE...

🎉In celebration of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we have collated a collection of papers by the winners, Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi, and their co-workers showcasing the evolution of MOF chemistry over the last 3 decades. 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #chemsky 🧪

🧪 "MOFs" or "Coordination Polymers"? Interested in the terminology behind this year's Chemistry #NobelPrize? Read this paper by Lars Öhrström, with coworkers including winner Susumu Kitagawa. Cited in the Scientific Background to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: doi.org/10.1039/C2CE...

To celebrate the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆 #chemsky Free to read until the end of November: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Great timing for our review and cover art in @crystengcomm.rsc.org !! Congrats to Micaela and Pedro for writing a very nice highlight on RE-UiO-66 😊

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are this year's winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on MOFs – just a few grams of these materials can have the same surface area as a football pitch. Julia Robinson with the details.

🔓The cover of issue 39 showcases #OpenAccess Highlight by @chemashlee.bsky.social & co discussing the developments in synthesis and characterisation of RE-UiO-66, a rare-earth cluster-based MOF with fcu net, read it here⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍 @concordia.ca, @cicbiomagune.bsky.social 🧪

My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess article by Ruohan Zhang & J. Axel Zeitler: "Mechanochemical cocrystallisation in a simplified mechanical model: decoupling kinetics and mechanisms using THz-TDS". Well worth a read! 👀👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @ceb.cam.ac.uk 🧪

🔓"Metal organic framework with high water stability and dense open metal sites for carbon monoxide capture" – Don't miss this #OpenAccess article by Jing Li & co. 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @rutgersu.bsky.social

🔓Be sure to read the recent #OpenAccess article by Simon N. Black: "Sources of symmetry in ‘Blind Tests’ crystal structures". Molecules create crystals via Symthons that embody long-range order. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @durham-university.bsky.social 🧪

🔓 Don't miss the #OpenAccess Highlight review by Takashi Ito & Elise Skinner describing electrochemistry-induced deposition for controlled formation of metal–organic framework films on insulator and conductor substrates. Read it here! 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @kstate.bsky.social 🧪

Issue 38 is online now! 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... The front cover showcases work by Mukesh Kumar, Ashutosh Sharma & co. highlighting advances in boron nitride nanostructures: from h-BN to BN nanotubes and quantum dots for energy applications. Take a look! 👇👀 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper by @franemmerling.bsky.social, Torvid Feiler & Biswajit Bhattacharya highlighting a sustainable mechanochemical approach for the selective synthesis of multicomponent organic solids: real-time in situ insights👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @bamresearch.bsky.social 🧪

Issue 37 is online! Browse all the recently published work in this issue 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...