It is my pleasure to introduce a special Crystal Growth & Design (CGD) virtual issue, with contributions representative of the amazing new authors contributing to CGD. The diversity in topics and national origin is truly representative of a journal which over the last almost 20 years has sought to “Crystallize the Community.”
The aim of Crystal Growth & Design is to stimulate cross-fertilization of knowledge among scientists and engineers working in the fields of crystal growth, crystal engineering, and the industrial application of crystalline materials. In this virtual collection, you will find 22 publications with featured authors from nine countries, which exemplify this aim and reflect state-of-the-art progress in these fields. The scope of science and application in this virtual issue is truly representative of the inclusiveness and diversity which are hallmarks of CGD. See if you can find all of the papers that touch on important topics such as Co-Crystals, Crystal Engineering, Crystal Growth, Halogen Bonding, Hydrogen Bonding, Mechanochemistry, MOFs, Nucleation, pi-pi Stacking, Simulation and Modeling, Solid State Synthesis, and Supramolecular Chemistry, or applications such as Catalysts, Nonlinear Optics, Pharmaceuticals, and Sensing, and compare these to the topics on CGD covers.
Our emerging authors are clearly the next line of excellent science and application which I personally cannot wait to see come to fruition. Browsing through the publications, the biographies, and the sense of humor contained within this virtual issue provides ample confidence that this field and this community are set to continue to make important contributions to science and technology now and for the foreseeable future.
Robin D. Rogers
Editor-in-Chief, Crystal Growth & Design
Click on an author’s name to learn more about them and check out their research in the table below.
Douglas Genna was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, just north of Philadelphia. He received his B.S. in 2006 from Haverford College working in the area of total synthesis with Fran Blase. In the fall of that same year, he joined the lab of Gary H. Posner at The Johns Hopkins University, where he studied chirality transfer in allylic substitution chemistry and the copper-mediated conversion of carboxylic acids into ketones. In December 2011, he defended his thesis and joined the lab of Melanie S. Sanford at the University of Michigan in January 2012 for his postdoctoral studies. In the Sanford lab, he studied the heterogenization of homogeneous catalysts inside metal-organic frameworks. After two and a half years in Ann Arbor, he joined the faculty at Youngstown State University in August 2014. His group’s research focuses on both organometallic and metal–organic framework chemistries. Specifically, the Genna Lab utilizes syntheses and spectroscopy to study the solution-phase mechanism of metal-organic framework formation. Fun Facts: Zhihua Sun received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Shandong University in 2005. Five years later (2010), he received his Ph.D. degree and then joined Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has experience in growing quadratic nonlinear optical crystals for assembling optoelectronic devices. After his promotion to a full professor in 2016, his interests have focused on the design and controllable synthesis of molecule-based polar compounds, such as molecule-based ferroics, photo-ferroelectrics, and photosensitive ferroelectrics. He is a recipient of national and provincial-level awards, including the Excellent Youth Fund of NNSFC, Outstanding Youth Fund of Fujian Province, and Hundred Talents Program of Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter. Fun Facts: Wei-Hui Fang graduated from Huaqiao University in 2009 with a B.S. in chemical engineering. Then, she worked as a research assistant at Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter FJIRSMCAS), where she got her start in inorganic chemistry research with Professor Guo-Yu Yang. In 2013, she received her Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry. From October 2016 to October 2017, she studied with Professor Dominic Wright at University of Cambridge as a visiting scholar under the sponsorship of China Scholarship Council. Her current research interest is the synthesis and application of metal oxo cluster based compounds, including lanthanide oxo clusters and titanium-oxo clusters. Fun Facts: Sangen Zhao is Professor of Physical Chemistry at Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Southwest University and received his B.S. in 2007. He got his start in nonlinear optical materials research in the laboratory of Professor Yicheng Wu at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry and was awarded his Ph.D. in 2012. He then joined the faculty in Physical Chemistry at Fujian Institute of Research and has devoted his research efforts to the synthesis, crystal growth, characterizations, and structure-property relationships of nonlinear optical materials. In particular, he and his co-workers have discovered a series of beryllium-free nonlinear optical materials and revealed the deep mechanisms of their outstanding performance. Now, he and co-workers are working on the potential practical applications of these materials in the future. Fun Facts: Karah E. Knope earned her B.A. in chemistry from Lake Forest College and her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from The George Washington University. She joined the Heavy Elements and Separation Science group at Argonne National Laboratory in 2010 as a postdoctoral researcher and accepted a staff position in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division in 2012. In August 2014, she joined the faculty at Georgetown University as the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in Chemistry. In 2018, she was the recipient of a DOE Early Career Research Program award. Her research broadly focuses on self-assembly processes, phase formation, and structure-property relationships in bismuth and f-element materials. Fun Fact: Burak Eral obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, in 2012. He then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work with Professor Patrick S. Doyle and Professor Allan Myerson at MIT-Novartis Center for Continuous Manufacturing. Since October 2016, he has been working as a tenure-track assistant professor at Delft University of Technology. He also holds a guest faculty position in Van’t Hoff labs in Utrecht University since 2015. He is currently serving on the board of Delft Process Technology Institute. His curiosity spans crystal engineering, complex fluids (soft matter) and colloidal physics, and hydrodynamics/microfluidics. He aims to extend the current understanding of the physical mechanisms governing the dynamics and phase behavior of soft matter systems that play a critical role in manufacturing and separation processes involving complex fluids, flow, and crystallization. Fun Facts: Following his Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Professor T. N. Guru Row at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, Dr. Parthapratim Munshi joined Professor Mark A. Spackman’s group at the University of Western Australia, Perth, as a postdoctoral fellow. Subsequently, he received the prestigious European fellowship, the Marie-Curie International Incoming Fellowship, to work with Dr. Christian Jelsch at Nancy University, Nancy, France. Afterwards, he worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee, USA. He joined the Chemistry Department of Shiv Nadar University, Dadri, India, in 2013, and currently he is Associate Professor and Head of the Department. His research interests span several interdisciplinary projects. His research experiences include charge density analysis of organic molecular crystals and proteins, organic nonlinear optical (NLO) materials, protein crystallography, ultra-high resolution X-ray and neutron diffraction methods for highly accurate structural studies, and neutron beamline development. Currently, his group is focusing on (i) structure-property relationships of organic multifunctional (optical, NLO, optoelectronic, ferroelectric, etc.) materials, including their design, synthesis, and device applications and (ii) studies of hydrogen bonding in proteins and protein-ligand interactions from ultra-high resolution diffraction data and the quantum crystallography viewpoint. Fun Facts: Dominik Cinčić is an associate professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry. He received his B.Sc. (1999), M.Sc. (2005), and Ph.D. (2009) at the University of Zagreb with Professor Branko Kaitner. In 2007, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor William Jones and Professor Tomislav Friščić. He is experienced in crystallization of molecular solids, polymorphism, cocrystals and salt screening of pharmaceuticals, mechanochemical and solvent-free synthesis of diverse organic and metal-organic materials, and crystallography. Current research in his group is focused on the study of halogen bonding synthons and their flexibility as well as crystal engineering of multicomponent halogen-bonded organic and metal-organic materials. Dominik is also involved in a variety of popularizing science activities and has experience as an organizer of the public events ”Open Day of the Chemistry Department“ and ”Open Day of the Faculty“. He was the recipient of the Croatian National Science Award for outstanding scientific discoveries in the field of supramolecular chemistry – halogen-bonded solids (2018), the annual award ‘Brdo‘ for the best teacher at the Department of Chemistry, administered by the Student Association at the Faculty of Science (2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017), and the Annual Young Scientist and Artist’s Award, administered by the Society of University Teachers, Scholars, and Other Scientists in Zagreb (2009). Fun Facts: Manas K. Panda is from West Bengal, India, and got his preliminary education there. He received his B.Sc. in chemistry from Vidyasagar University and M.Sc. in chemistry from Jadavpur University Kolkara India. Subsequently, in 2010 he received his Ph.D. in the area of biomimetic catalysis from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India. After a short stay at Dow Chemical International Pvt. Ltd, Pune, India, he moved to the University of Crete, Greece, for postdoctoral research with Professor A. G. Coutsolelos, where he worked on developing metalloporphyrin-based complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells. In early 2013, he moved to New York University at the Abu Dhabi campus and joined Professor Panče Naumov’s research group as a postdoctoral associate where he started working in a fascinating area of crystal actuators. In 2014, he was promoted to Research Scientist there. In the middle of 2016, he returned to India to pursue an independent research career, and he joined CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology at Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala. Currently he is a scientist fellow and AcSIR Assistant Professor there. His research interest lies in the area of solid-state chemistry and smart materials. Specifically, he is interested in designing and synthesizing organic or inorganic molecules to investigate their stimuli-responsive behavior, phase transition, and optical properties in the solid state. Fun Facts: Ranjan Patra received his B.Sc. and M.Sc in chemistry from Vidyasagar University, India. He continued his studies towards a Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where the focus of his work centered on bioinorganic chemistry of heme systems. He was subsequently a postdoctoral scholar at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, with Professor Israel Goldberg, where he studied porphyrin-based supramolecular networks sustained by weak noncovalent interactions. He continued his second postdoctoral work at The Johns Hopkins University, USA, with Professor Justine P. Roth, where he studied mechanistic investigations of transition metal catalyzed water oxidation. After a span of one year in the USA, he moved to University of Grenoble, Alpes, France, to work with Professor Jean-Marc Latour and Professor Pascale Maldivi where his focus was on the mechanistic investigation of transition metal catalyzed amination reactions. He is currently DST-INSPIRE faculty in the Department of Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. His research interests are bioinorganic modeling of heme and non-heme metalloenzymes, coordination chemistry, design and synthesis of hydrogen and halogen bonded supramolecular networks, crystal engineering, and polymorphism. He is a visiting scientist at the University of Manchester, UK, and a recipient of the DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award. Fun Facts: Panče Naumov is a native of Macedonia, where he was educated, and worked briefly at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. After earning his Ph.D. in chemistry and materials science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2004, Dr. Naumov continued his research at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. In 2007, he was appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University, where he led a small but very active research group. After a short stint at Kyoto University, in 2012 he joined New York University, where he is now a tenured faculty member at their portal campus in Abu Dhabi, the UAE. His publication portfolio includes over 200 publications that have been cited more than 3300 times, with a current h-index of 32. He has also contributed three book chapters and a couple of academic manuals. At research conferences, he has presented over 300 times and has given about 50 invited talks and 30 invited seminars at various institutions. He is an active reviewer for more than 50 journals published by the Nature Publishing Group, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, Elsevier, and other publishers. He serves as a reviewer with several national funding agencies. Dr. Naumov is a recipient of Harvard University’s Radcliffe fellowship, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association Prize for Young Scientists, Japanese Ministry of Science Fellowship, and Global Center of Excellence Fellowship, among other awards. He is a founder of the UAE Chapter of the American Chemical Society, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Society of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence (ISBC), member of the Advisory Board of the International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS), and Councilor of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA), among other roles. Fun facts: Ashlee J. Howarth was born and raised in London, Ontario, Canada. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario in 2009, and then went on to do her Ph.D. in inorganic materials chemistry at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Michael O. Wolf. Before joining the faculty at Concordia, she completed an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University with Joseph T. Hupp and Omar K. Farha. In 2017, Ashlee was recognized by Forbes Magazine as a “30 under 30” in Science. Research in the Howarth group is focused on the design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks targeting applications in wastewater remediation and chemical sensing. Fun Facts: M. Nagaraja is Associate Professor of Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. He received his M.Sc. degree in chemistry from Bangalore University in 2000. After a year of a teaching job, he moved on to Indian Institute of Science for his doctoral research, where he worked with Professor Balaji Rao Jagirdar on the development of highly reactive transition metal complexes for activation of unreactive bonds in small molecules and obtained a Ph.D. degree in 2007. Subsequently, he moved to Brandeis University, USA, for postdoctoral research and investigated the application of highly reactive trialkylsilylium cations for hydrodefluorination reactions. Later, at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, he worked on multifunctional coordination polymers, and then became fascinated by the structural and functional properties of porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Current research in his group focuses on the design and synthesis of porous MOFs for selective capture and subsequent utilization of carbon dioxide as a C1 source for synthesis of value-added chemicals and fuels. Fun facts: Shailesh Agrawal received his B.Tech. from Nagpur University, India, in 2005, and then moved to Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT, formerly UDCT), Mumbai University, for his postgraduate work in bioprocess technology. He worked on the recovery of whey proteins and lactose crystallization for his research thesis. He then received a Government of New Zealand scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in the area of lactose crystallization at Massey University, where he worked in close collaboration with the dairy industry, spending significant time studying industrial crystallization processes. He finished his Ph.D. in 2012 and then worked at the Riddet Institute at Massey University for a year as a research officer looking into sanitation issues in the dairy industry. He then moved back to India to take up an academic career and is currently working as Assistant Professor at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. He is the recipient of Nagpur University’s Gold Medal for securing the first position in the department, Best M.Tech. Thesis Award at ICT, Mumbai, and Dean’s List of Exceptional Theses at Massey University. Fun facts: Ying Diao is the Dow Chemical Company Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2015. She received her Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from MIT in 2012. Her doctoral thesis was on understanding heterogeneous nucleation of pharmaceuticals by designing polymeric substrates. In her subsequent postdoctoral training at Stanford University, she pursued research in the thriving field of printed electronics. The Diao group, started in January 2015 at the University of Illinois, has been developing fundamental understanding and innovative methodologies for directed assembly of functional materials, their morphology characterizations using advanced X-ray techniques, and their applications in the areas of electronics, renewable energy, and healthcare. Her work has frequently been featured in science journals and news media such as Science magazine, Nature Materials, ScienceDaily, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Materials Research Society, and AAAS. She is a recipient of the Spicer Young Investigator Award from DOE’s SLAC National Lab, and was named to MIT Technology Review’s annual list of Innovators Under 35 as a pioneer in nanotechnology and materials. Dr. Diao is also a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, and was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry as one of the “very best scientific minds working today”. Fun Fact: Guohong Zou was born in Hengyang, P. R. China, in 1985. He earned his B.S. degree from Central South University, China, in 2008, and his Ph.D. degree in material physics and chemistry from Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences (FJIRSM, CAS) in 2013 under the direction of Professor Ning Ye. He began independent research at the New Materials R&D Center, China Academy of Engineering Physics, on novel nonlinear optical materials. From 2015 to 2017, he carried out postdoctoral research at Chung-Ang University where he collaborated with Professor Kang Min Ok on UV nonlinear optical crystals. Since joining the faculty of Sichuan University in China, he has performed research on new inorganic deep-UV nonlinear optical crystals such as carbonates and nitrates. Fun Facts: Palash Sanphui graduated in 2007 from IIT Kharagpur, with an M.Sc. in chemistry, where he was introduced to the fascinating world of small molecule crystallography during a one-year master’s project under the supervision of Professor Kumar Biradha. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry (crystal engineering) in 2012 from University of Hyderabad under the guidance of Professor Ashwini Nangia, where he mainly worked on small molecular synthesis, the study of hydrogen bonding, and structure-property correlation of pharmaceuticals. In recognition of his graduate research, he received the first runner-up prize of the K. V. Rao Society Memorial and Oration Awards in the category of Young Research Scientist Award in July 2011. He has worked as the Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Gautam Desiraju at the Indian Institute of Science on tuning pharmaceutically relevant properties and correlation with crystal structures. Further, he joined Lupin Ltd. as a polymorph specialist in 2014 and filed several Indian/WO patents based on novel solid forms of drug molecules. Since 2017, he has served as Assistant Professor at SRM Institute of Science and Technology. His research group focuses on pharmaceutical solid form development of malarial drugs, collaborating with the pharma industry, and is interested in developing supramolecular gels of antitumor drugs. Fun Facts: Geetha Bolla graduated with a master’s degree with the most prestigious distinction rank from Andhra University and a specialization in organic chemistry. She received her Ph.D. degree from University of Hyderabad in 2015, after qualifying for the CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test under the supervision of Professor Ashwini Nangia. Then she spent a year as a visiting research scholar at ICCAS, Beijing, and then was awarded the most competitive INDO-USA postdoc fellowship to pursue her research in heterogeneous nucleation with Professor Allan. S. Myerson at CHEME, MIT, USA, where she established SURMOF induced polymorphs and morphology changes for pharma drugs. Her research has mainly centered on organic solid-state chemistry, nucleation, crystal engineering, and crystallization studies with newly designed molecules for better applications, especially in crystal engineering, polymorphism, and cocrystals of smart materials, optoelectronics, and pharma drugs. Fun facts: Dritan Hasa graduated in pharmaceutical chemistry and technology at the University of Trieste, Italy, where he also obtained a Ph.D. in chemical and pharmaceutical science and technology under the supervision of Professor Dario Voinovich. His Ph.D. thesis dealt with mechanochemically induced defects in molecular crystals. He spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher working on a project that involved industrial partners. Subsequently, Dritan moved to the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK, where he spent more than two years working with Professor Bill Jones. He investigated new applications of pharmaceutical polymeric materials for promoting crystallization and controlling polymorphism in the solid state. Dritan joined the Leicester School of Pharmacy in March 2017 as Vice-Chancellor Lecturer of Pharmaceutics. He has been also a visiting scientist at the University College Cork (Ireland) working with Professor Caitriona O’Driscoll, and at the University of Dusseldorf (Germany), where he learned about hot melt extrusion from Professor Peter Kleinebudde. His research group focuses on fundamental research on issues surrounding different aspects of crystallization and polymorphism in single and multicomponent materials. He is also exploring new (green) applications of cocrystallization technology. Fun Facts: René Steendam was born in the Netherlands and obtained his master’s degree in 2011 in chemistry at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. He continued with Ph.D. studies at the same university in the group of Professor Elias Vlieg and Professor Floris Rutjes, where he worked at the interface of synthetic organic chemistry and solid-state chemistry. The topic of his Ph.D. research was the synthesis, crystallization, and deracemization of chiral crystals through Viedma ripening and temperature cycling. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2015, René was awarded an NWO Rubicon fellowship for postdoctoral research at the Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallization (CMAC) Center at the University of Strathclyde. At CMAC, he worked with Professor Joop ter Horst on the continuous crystallization and deracemization of chiral crystals. Since 2017, René has been employed as a research fellow in the group of Dr. Patrick Frawley at the University of Limerick within the Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC). René’s research interests are synthetic organic chemistry, chirality, crystal nucleation, and industrial crystallization. Fun Fact: Kristin Hutchins graduated from the University of Iowa in 2010 with a B.S. in chemistry. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry, also from the University of Iowa, in 2015. While at Iowa, she worked with Professor Leonard R. MacGillivray, studying supramolecular chemistry, solid-state reactivity, and crystal engineering as a platform for designing functional materials. In recognition of her graduate research, she received the A. Lynn Anderson Award for Graduate Research Excellence from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa in 2015. She spent two years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as a postdoctoral research associate advised by Professor Jeffrey S. Moore. At UIUC, she investigated functionalized polymer colloids and synthesis of polymers at interfaces for applications in self-healing materials. Kristin joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Texas Tech University as an assistant professor in September of 2017. Her research group focuses on designing and synthesizing supramolecular materials that can be used in applications ranging from water purification and environmental remediation to sensors and responsive materials. Fun facts: Qiang Zhang received his B.S. degree in chemistry in 2008 from Jilin University, China, where he worked on the fabrication of nanomaterials. He received his Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry in 2013 from the University of South Carolina under the guidance of Professor Richard D. Adams. His Ph.D. work centered on the fundamental study of transition metal cluster complexes. He was trained as a hardcore synthetic organometallic chemist and a crystallographer. As a crystallographer, he was deeply attracted to the fascinating structures of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and upon graduation, he pursued his postdoctoral training in the MOF field at Texas A&M University between 2013 and 2016 with Professor Hong-Cai Zhou. He started his independent research career in the Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, in 2016. On the basis of his diverse experiences in nanomaterials, organometallics, and MOFs, his current research interests range from the integration of nanomaterials and small molecules with porous materials to the creation of multifunctional materials for applications in catalysis and separation. His training in crystallography makes him interested in the crystal growth mechanisms for both MOFs and small molecules. The Zhang lab also is interested in the design and development of luminescent molecules and porous materials. Fun Facts: Ranjit Thakuria was born in 1982. He received his B.Sc. degree (2003) in chemistry from B. Borooah College and M.Sc. (2005) in organic chemistry as specialization from Gauhati University, India. He then moved to University of Hyderabad, where he received his Ph.D. (2011) in crystal engineering under the supervision of Professor Ashwini Nangia. After obtaining his Ph.D., Ranjit then moved to University of Cambridge, UK, to carry out postdoctoral research in Professor William (Bill) Jones’ group (2011-2012). During the one-year postdoctoral appointment, he worked on the surface response of cocrystals under controlled humidity using atomic force microscopy. Then he spent a year at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, as a postdoctoral researcher with (late) Professor Israel Goldberg (2013-2014). Since June 2014, he has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Gauhati University. His current research group focuses on pharmaceutical cocrystals, heterogeneous catalysis, and design and synthesis of functional materials based on mechanochemistry. He is the recipient of the DST-Young Scientist Award under Department of Science and Technology, India. He served as a guest editor for a Crystal Growth & Design virtual special issue on “π−π Stacking in Crystal Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications”. Fun Facts: Wenlong Yin received a bachelor’s degree in materials physics from Sichuan University in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 2008 and then completed his Ph.D. in material science in 2013 at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the research group of Professors Jiyong Yao and Yicheng Wu. He started his independent career as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics at Mianyang, where he took a two-year leave (2015-2017) for his postdoctoral studies at University of Alberta, advised by Professor Arthur Mar. He rejoined the Institute of Chemical Materials in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in the same year. Since his first experience with scientific research, he has been working on the synthesis, structure determination, and physical property characterization of new metal oxides, chalcogenides, and pnictides. He now leads a five-member group, including two graduate students, to search for next-generation infrared nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals. Fun Facts:DOUGLAS T. GENNA
ZHIHUA SUN
WEI-HUI FANG
SANGEN ZHAO
KARAH E. KNOPE
BURAK ERAL
PARTHAPRATIM MUNSHI
DOMINIK CINČIĆ
MANAS K. PANDA
RANJAN PATRA
PANČE NAUMOV
ASHLEE J. HOWARTH
C. M. NAGARAJA
SHAILESH AGRAWAL
YING DIAO
GUOHONG ZOU
PALASH SANPHUI
GEETHA BOLLA
DRITAN HASA
RENÉ R. E. STEENDAM
KRISTIN M. HUTCHINS
QIANG ZHANG
RANJIT THAKURIA
WENLONG YIN
Articles in the Crystal Growth & Design Emerging Investigator Virtual Issue
DOI AUTHOR BEING HIGHLIGHTED Title Year Vol. Issue Pages Article type Web Pub. Date Institution (of author being highlighted) Country (of author being highlighted)
acs.cgd.7b00240 Zhihua Sun Hydrogen-Bonded Switchable Dielectric Material Showing the Bistability of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties 2017 17 6 3250–3256 Article April 20, 2017 Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences P. R. China
acs.cgd.8b00857 René R. E. Steendam Effects of Scale-Up on the Mechanism and Kinetics of Crystal Nucleation 2018 18 9 5547–5555 Article August 8, 2018 University of Limerick Ireland
acs.cgd.8b00812 Kristin M. Hutchins Co-Crystallization of the Anti-Cholesterol Drug Bezafibrate: Molecular Recognition of a Pharmaceutical Contaminant in the Solid State and Solution via Hydrogen Bonding 2018 18 9 4838–4843 Communication August 13, 2018 Texas Tech University United States
acs.cgd.8b01065 Qiang Zhang Molecular Association-Induced Emission Shifts for E/Z Isomers and Selective Sensing of Nitroaromatic Explosives 2018 18 10 6197–6203 Article August 31, 2018 Washington State University United States
acs.cgd.7b01560 Parthapratim Munshi Concomitance, Reversibility, and Switching Ability of Centrosymmetric and Non-Centrosymmetric Crystal Forms: Polymorphism in an Organic Nonlinear Optical Material 2018 18 2 1126–1135 Article December 20, 2017 Shiv Nadar University India
acs.cgd.8b00031 Panče Naumov Reversible Photolysis of Nitrosobenzene cis-Dimer Monitored In Situ by Single Crystal Photocrystallography 2018 18 3 1293–1296 Communication February 20, 2018 New York University Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
acs.cgd.8b01649 Wenlong Yin SrCdGeS4 and SrCdGeSe4: Promising Infrared Nonlinear Optical Materials with Congruent-Melting Behavior 2019 19 2 1206–1214 Article January 7, 2019 San Institute, CAEP ( China Academy Of Engineering Physics ) P. R. China
acs.cgd.7b01651 Dominik Cinčić Halogen Bonding of N-Bromophthalimide by Grinding and Solution Crystallization 2018 18 2 1182–1190 Article January 9, 2018 University of Zagreb Croatia
acs.cgd.5b01680 Douglas T. Genna Ion-Directed Synthesis of Indium-Derived 2,5-Thiophenedicarboxylate Metal–Organic Frameworks: Tuning Framework Dimensionality 2016 16 3 1550–1558 Article January 12, 2016 Youngstown State University United States
acs.cgd.7b01357 Manas K. Panda and Ranjan Patra Polymorphism in Sn(IV)-Tetrapyridyl Porphyrins with a Halogenated Axial Ligand: Structural, Photophysical, and Morphological Study 2018 18 3 1437–1447 Article January 30, 2018 CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (Panda)
Panjab University (Patra)India
Sangen Zhao A New KBBF-Family Nonlinear Optical Material with Strong Interlayer Bonding 2017 17 8 4422–4427 Article July 14, 2017 Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences P. R. China
acs.cgd.8b00646 Palash Sanphui and Geetha Bolla Curcumin, a Biological Wonder Molecule: A Crystal Engineering Point of View 2018 18 9 5690–5711 Review July 25, 2018 SRM Institute of Science and Technology (Sanphui)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bolla)India
acs.cgd.8b00687 Dritan Hasa Dehydration without Heating: Use of Polymer-Assisted Grinding for Understanding the Stability of Hydrates in the Presence of Polymeric Excipients 2018 18 9 5245–5253 Article July 26, 2018 De Montfort University UK
acs.cgd.7b00400 Karah E. Knope Synthesis and Characterization of an Isomorphous Lanthanide-Thiophenemonocarboxylate Series (Ln = La–Lu, except Pm) Amenable to Color Tuning 2017 17 9 4603–4612 Article July 31, 2017 Georgetown University United States
acs.cgd.8b0049999 Shailesh Agrawal Modeling, Simulation, and Influence of Operational Parameters on Crystal Size and Morphology in Semibatch Antisolvent Crystallization of α-Lactose Monohydrate 2018 18 8 4511–4521 Article June 14, 2018 Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology India
acs.cgd.8b00452 Ying Diao Hybrid Mechanism of Nucleation and Cooperative Propagation in a Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transition of a Molecular Crystal 2018 18 8 4245–4251 Communication June 25, 2018 University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign United States
acs.cgd.8b00385 Ashlee J. Howarth Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Enables Rapid, Clean, and Scalable Conversion of a Metal Oxide into Zeolitic Metal–Organic Frameworks 2018 18 5 3222–3228 Article March 14, 2018 Concordia University Canada
acs.cgd.8b00065 C. M. Nagaraja Exceptionally Stable and 20-Connected Lanthanide Metal–Organic Frameworks for Selective CO2 Capture and Conversion at Atmospheric Pressure 2018 18 4 2432–2440 Article March 14, 2018 Indian Institute of Technology Ropar India
acs.cgd.7b00413 Wei-Hui Fang Connecting Titanium-Oxo Clusters by Nitrogen Heterocyclic Ligands to Produce Multiple Cluster Series with Photocatalytic H2 Evolution Activities 2017 17 7 3592–3595 Communication May 24, 2017 Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, the Chinese Academy of Sciences P. R. China
acs.cgd.7b01277 Burak Eral Multiparameter Investigation of Laser-Induced Nucleation of Supersaturated Aqueous KCl Solutions 2018 18 1 312–317 Article November 28, 2017 1. Delft University of Technology
2. Utrecht UniversityThe Netherlands
acs.cgd.8b01102 Guohong Zou Centrosymmetric (NH4)2SbCl(SO4)2 and Non-centrosymmetric (NH4)SbCl2(SO4): Synergistic Effect of Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions and Lone-Pair Cations on the Framework Structures and Macroscopic Centricities 2018 18 10 6239–6247 Article September 11, 2018 Sichuan University P. R. China
acs.cgd.8b00878 Ranjit Thakuria Preparation of Pyrazinamide Eutectics versus Cocrystals Based on Supramolecular Synthon Variations 2018 18 11 6640–6651 Article September 27, 2018 Gauhati University India