Crystalline Molecular Materials: From Structure to Function

Electronic Structure of Crystalline Materials

Inorganic molecular capsules: from structure to function.

The assembly of nanoscale capsules or cages using metal coordination represents one of the most interesting and challenging areas of chemical nanoscience. These high-symmetry capsules are invariably comprised of many metal–ligand components, which often selfassemble rapidly and in high yield into a single gigantic species—sometimes even protein-sized. However, the interest in these systems goes...

Topological Crystalline Insulators and Topological Superconductors: From Concepts to Materials

In this review, we discuss recent progress in the explorations of topological materials beyond topological insulators; specifically, we focus on topological crystalline insulators and bulk topological superconductors. The basic concepts, model Hamiltonians, and novel electronic properties of these new topological materials are explained. The key role of symmetries that underlie their topologica...

Current progress on esterases: from molecular structure to function.

This article reports on a symposium sponsored by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and held at the April 2001 Experimental Biology meeting. Current developments in molecular-based studies into the structure and function of cholinesterases, carboxylesterases, and paraoxonases are described. This article covers mechanisms of regulation of gene expression of the v...

Growth and modelling of spherical crystalline morphologies of molecular materials.

Crystalline, yet smooth, sphere-like morphologies of small molecular compounds are desirable in a wide range of applications but are very challenging to obtain using common growth techniques, where either amorphous films or faceted crystallites are the norm. Here we show solvent-free, guard flow-assisted organic vapour jet printing of non-faceted, crystalline microspheroids of archetypal small ...