In hindsight, these two events were watershed moments for the immediate and rapid development of crystal engineering, which, it should be noted, overlaps very little with crystal structure prediction.

Crystal engineering harnesses the principles of supramolecular chemistry to design and synthesise novel crystalline architectures with tailored properties. By exploiting specific intermolecular ...

"One of the continuing scandals in the physical sciences is that it remains in general impossible to predict the structure of even the simplest crystalline solids from a knowledge of their chemical ...

A large team of researchers from the University of Glasgow, UK, has created a novel inorganic material known as a ‘flexi-crystal’. This is the first material of its kind and gathers its name from the ...

Diamond makes for an extraordinary engineering material due to its remarkable physical and chemical properties spanning extreme ranges of capability. It has the best thermal conductivity of any ...