Crystallography Reviews

The latest issue of the @IUCr #crystallography Newsletter is now available at www.iucr.org/news/newslet...

Stacking interactions of organometallic sandwich and half-sandwich compounds: crystallographic evidence and quantum chemical support This review provides crystallographic insight into stacking interactions between aromatic ligands in organometallic sandwich and half-sandwich compounds obtained by analyzing all crystal structures...

🚨New review online - a deep dive into the stacking interactions of organometallic sandwich compounds 🥪💠using the Cambridge Structural Database @ccdc.cam.ac.uk

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Meteorites: encounters with outer space and deep time Published in Crystallography Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)

New book review online 📖 - A review of Helen Gordon's 'Meteorites: encounters with outer space and deep time' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... - reviewed by @crystallised-cricket.com

Visualizing the C2h character table: an intuitive guide through the Li2CO3 crystal structure The character tables are tools for the representation of groups, which are used to describe the symmetry of crystal structures. The expression of the character tables is concise, it is difficult to...

A nice review online today that takes the reader through the C2h character table with an example crystal structure www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Crystallography from Space to the lower Earth mantle Published in Crystallography Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)

New editorial from Petra Bombicz online today doi.org/10.1080/0889... - in advance of the next edition.

The latest IUCr Newsletter is out, www.iucr.org/news/newslet... including a fascinating article from @stecanossa.bsky.social‬ on his tiling voyage to Morocco

Growth of protein crystals in microgravity: history and present status The importance of protein crystals for structural studies of biological macromolecules, peculiarities of protein crystals, and their growth under terrestrial and microgravity conditions are conside...

New article that reviews the fascinating growth of protein crystals in microgravity is available online. doi.org/10.1080/0889...

Biophysical chemistry Published in Crystallography Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)

📣 New book review from @helliwelljohn.bsky.social, of the text book 'Biophysical Chemistry' by Dagmar Klostermeier and Makus G Rudolph

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Data-driven discovery in the chemical sciences Faraday discussion by The Royal Society of Chemistry Published in Crystallography Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)

New review, of the book 'Data-driven discovery in the chemical sciences' published online www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

George M. Sheldrick (1942–2025) In memory of George Sheldrick.

Usón & Herbst-Irmer: George M. Sheldrick (1942–2025) @unigoettingen...#IUCr https://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2053273325002931

Structural Biology of the SARS-CoV-2 replication–transcription complex In this review, we examine the protein structures of the RNA replication transcription complex involved in replicating the SARS-CoV-2 genome. The complex is composed of several key non-structural p...

📣 New Open Access article - part of our series on the #crystallography of COVID 'Structural Biology of the SARS-CoV-2 replication–transcription complex' - read it now here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

High-pressure and high-temperature behaviour of α-FeOOH and ϵ-FeOOH: a geological perspective α-FeOOH exhibits high thermodynamic stability and is the most abundant iron hydroxide in soils and sediments, commonly found as a weathering product in various rocks. Under high pressure, it underg...

📣 New article just posted - 'High-pressure and high-temperature behaviour of α-FeOOH and ϵ-FeOOH: a geological perspective' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The latest IUCr newsletter is out www.iucr.org/news/newslet... including a celebration of 10 years of @iucrj.iucr.org

Protein design and structure solution for drug discovery Published in Crystallography Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)

New editorial - Protein design and structure solution for drug discovery www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The expanding world of data Published in Crystallography Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)

New book review 📔 online - review of 'The expanding world of data' - www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @helliwelljohn.bsky.social reviews this new work by Tom Jackson which introduces data science to a new generation.

Crystallography Reviews Volume 30, Issue 2 of Crystallography Reviews

🚨Volume 30 Issue 2 is now online 🚨, with 2 articles of our series on the structure biology of COVID, and a review of how to describe twinned crystals.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcry20/3...

we are investigating this, but as the account is run by one of the editorial board (and not the journal themselves) I've hit a couple of roadblocks...

Unpublished crystal structures: the hidden bulk of the iceberg? It is anecdotally believed that a high proportion of crystal structures solved and refined to a standard suitable for publication remain unpublished. Publication of structures is in the public inte...

Have you crystal structures stashed away? You may be interested in their potential impact outlined in the new review article from Bill Clegg 'Unpublished crystal structures: the hidden bulk of the iceberg?' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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We had our editorial board meeting today, with board members joining from across the globe. Lots more exciting #crystallography reviews in the pipeline

Transparent semiconducting oxides bulk crystal growth and fundamental properties Published in Crystallography Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2024)

New Book Review 📖 of 'Transparent semiconducting oxides bulk crystal growth and fundamental properties' available online www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Crystallography Reviews Volume 30, Issue 1 of Crystallography Reviews

📢Volume 30, issue 1 is now online tandfonline.com/toc/gcry20/3... - find recent reviews on host-guest structures, and calcium oxalate crystals in plants🌱