The articles published in the tenth anniversary issue of CrystEngComm are reviewed. The
issue highlighted the state-of-the-art of crystal engineering and new trends and developing …

The first CrystEngComm discussion meeting on crystal engineering has demonstrated that
the field has reached maturity in some areas (for example: design strategies …

The articles and highlights presented at the second CrystEngComm meeting, held in
Nottingham in September 2004 are reviewed. The discussion has highlighted the current …

Crystal structures of organic and metal-organic compounds have been determined in
enormous numbers over the past century, and at the time of writing this review, the …

FRONTIERS IN CRYSTAL ENGINEERING Crystal engineering–where the myriad of
intermolecular forces operating in the solid-state are employed to design new nano-and …

Crystal engineering, the design of molecular solids, is the synthesis of functional solid‐state
structures from neutral or ionic building blocks, using intermolecular interactions in the …

The Cambridge Structural Database is a storehouse of over 250 000 small-molecule organic
and organometallic crystal structures. Statistical analysis of structural data provides a better …

The design and synthesis of crystalline materials through the self-assembly of molecular
building blocks and the pursuit of functional materials based upon this approach are usually …

The area broadly described as crystal engineering is currently expanding at a brisk pace.
Imaginative schemes for supramolecular synthesis, and correlations between molecular …

The desire to design rationally technologically useful solid-state materials has coupled with
our ever growing understanding of the nature of non-covalent intermolecular interactions …