Song Gao
This year we are running two themed collections on the topics of “Crystal Engineering for Molecular Materials” and “Molecular Magnetism” to increase the journal's presence in the frontier research in inorganic materials and the under-represented area of magnetism. In 2015 Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers will continue to have themed collections on various timely topics, in addition to an “Emerging investigator” themed issue which aims to feature outstanding scientists at the early stages of their independent careers.
Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers publishes high quality review articles on key topics from leading chemists. Reviews published in 2014 include Liquid phase stepwise growth of surface mounted metal–organic frameworks for exploratory research and development of applications (DOI: 10.1039/C4QI00037D) by Roland Fischer et al. and Routes to tin chalcogenide materials as thin films or nanoparticles: a potentially important class of semiconductor for sustainable solar energy conversion (DOI: 10.1039/C4QI00059E) by Paul O'Brien et al. The top 10 most-cited research articles from the 2014 volume of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers are highlighted in Table 1. We hope you will be impressed by their high quality and diversity of subjects, and agree with us that the first volume of the journal well reflects our objective of being an international journal for the best research from across inorganic chemistry.
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Bi- and tri-dentate imino-based iron and cobalt pre-catalysts for ethylene oligo-/polymerization | Jing Ma, Chun Feng, Shaoli Wang, Ke-Qing Zhao, Wen-Hua Sun, Carl Redshaw and Gregory A. Solan | 10.1039/C3QI00028A |
[NH2NH3][M(HCOO)3] (M = Mn2+, Zn2+, Co2+ and Mg2+): structural phase transitions, prominent dielectric anomalies and negative thermal expansion, and magnetic ordering | Sa Chen, Ran Shang, Ke-Li Hu, Zhe-Ming Wang and Song Gao | 10.1039/C3QI00034F |
Design and synthesis of nucleobase-incorporated metal–organic materials | Muwei Zhang, Weigang Lu, Jian-Rong Li, Mathieu Bosch, Ying-Pin Chen, Tian-Fu Liu, Yangyang Liu and Hong-Cai Zhou | 10.1039/C3QI00042G |
Room-temperature ABX3-typed molecular ferroelectric: [C5H9–NH3][CdCl3] | Yi Zhang, Heng-Yun Ye, Wen Zhang and Ren-Gen Xiong | 10.1039/C3QI00058C |
N-heterocyclic silylene complexes in catalysis: new frontiers in an emerging field | Burgert Blom, Daniel Gallego and Matthias Driess | 10.1039/C3QI00079F |
Self-assembly and structural transformations of high-nuclearity palladium-rich polyoxometalates | Jamie M. Cameron, Jing Gao, De-Liang Long and Leroy Cronin | 10.1039/C3QI00075C |
Spin canting and metamagnetism in 3D pillared-layer homospin cobalt(II) molecular magnetic materials constructed via a mixed ligands approach | Ji-Yong Zou, Wei Shi, Hong-Ling Gao, Jian-Zhong Cui and Peng Cheng | 10.1039/C3QI00045A |
Metal phosphonate hybrid materials: from densely layered to hierarchically nanoporous structures | Yun-Pei Zhu, Tian-Yi Ma, Ya-Lu Liu, Tie-Zhen Ren and Zhong-Yong Yuan | 10.1039/C4QI00011K |
Sandwich-like carbon-anchored ultrathin TiO2 nanosheets realizing ultrafast lithium storage | Yongfu Sun, Jinbao Zhu, Liangfei Bai, Qiuyang Li, Xing Zhang, Wei Tong and Yi Xie | 10.1039/C3QI00050H |
Integration of accessible secondary metal sites into MOFs for H2S removal | Georg Nickerl, Matthias Leistner, Stella Helten, Volodymyr Bon, Irena Senkovska and Stefan Kaskel | 10.1039/C3QI00093A |
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Fig. 2 Geographic distribution of the institutes that accessed Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2014. |
As part of the global chemistry community, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers had substantial presence at many key conferences in 2014, such as the ACS national meetings, the 29th CCS national meeting and the 41st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry. The Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers team and Editorial Board members will be attending a number of international conferences to follow the latest developments of the field, and to meet with our authors and readers in the coming year (Fig. 3).
February 2014 heralded the launch of the 1stInorganic Chemistry Frontiers International Symposium held in the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Peking University. Leading Chinese scientists along with our exceptional Editorial Board members delivered 11 informative talks covering the main significant research trends in inorganic chemistry. Feedback was received from the attendees with praise and recognition. This series of symposia will be held every 1–2 years in various countries.
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This unique not-for-profit partnership between the CCS and the Royal Society of Chemistry celebrates a new phase in scientific growth. China is now ranked among the top countries in the world in chemistry research. In the past 10 years, the total number of chemistry papers from China as indexed by the Web of Science has been increasing by more than 10% every year. A study in 2014 by Thomson Reuters on highly cited researchers found that among 198 recorded chemical scientists, 30 are from China, putting the country second after the United States. In the Royal Society of Chemistry journals, around one third of the published articles are from Chinese scientists. The first volume of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers distilled the best research from outstanding Chinese researchers, which made up more than 40% of the published content. We believe that Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, as well as the whole Frontiers journal collection, will strongly benefit from the expanding influence of the Chinese chemistry community, providing researchers with unparalleled opportunities for global visibility and international collaboration.
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