Themed collection 2015 Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Review-type Articles

Studies on involving CO₂ and ambient air in cathode gas bring the potential of a real rechargeable high-energy metal–air battery.

The elusive compound Q in methane monooxygenase has been characterised and firmly established as a diamond-core bis-μ-oxo Fe^IV Fe^IV cluster.

Heteroatom-doped carbons (heteroatom = O, S, N or their mixtures) have exceptional ability in chemically adsorbing sulphur species and have important applications in lithium/sulphur batteries. This review highlights the synthesis and chemistry of these materials and discusses their applications and mechanisms in sulphur sequestration.

This review highlights various facet tailoring arts in perovskite structure oxides.

This review highlights the recent trends in the modification of perovskite with graphene-analogous materials towards H₂ production and pollutant degradation.

This review highlights fundamental concepts and synthetic strategies of SMMs and selected examples of 3d, 4f, 5f and mixed 3d–4f, 4d–5d and 3d–5f based SMMs are discussed.

Graphene oxide-based nanomaterials are suitable materials for the preconcentration of radionuclides and heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions in environmental pollution cleanup.

Transformation of metal–organic frameworks as a way to improve properties and design better materials is reported.

Advanced membrane systems with excellent permeance are important for controllable separation processes, such as gas separation and water purification.

MOFs of complicated topologies can be analyzed as networks having simple underlying topologies when the MOPs are considered as TBUs.

This review outlines the latest progress in perovskite-based solar cells, including device achievements and underlying insights and mechanisms of the perovskite materials.

This review summarizes the construction of nanostructured solid-state metal alkoxides and their conversion into functional inorganic nanomaterials.

The designs of NCS compounds based on the normal development of NCS chromophores are presented and NLO properties are investigated.

A complete review of all known octacyanide-based clusters with an extensive discussion of their structures, magnetic properties and multifunctionality.

We summarize the biological applications of selected organometallic iridium(III) complexes as intracellular sensors, organelle-targeting imaging reagents, and metallodrugs.

Solvent-free synthesis under conventional oven and microwave assisted heating to provide multicomponent MOFs.

Three classes of heterolanthanide assemblies, multi-dimensional frameworks (A), discrete polynuclear molecules (B) and preformed coordinated units connected by a linker (C), are discussed. Potential functionalities arising from the distance-dependent coexistence or interplay of the physical properties are pointed out.

This Chemistry Frontier highlights how supramolecular non-covalent interactions can be employed as effective tools in tailoring the magnetic properties of crystalline functional molecular materials.