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Publishing reviews across all areas of #crystallography since 1988. Have an idea for a review paper or book to review? Do get in touch!
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Find our current issue at this link www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcry20/c... - great landing page for topical reviews of #Crystallography topics
🚨 New review online - Pagare et al 'Recent advances in pharmaceutical cocrystal design: leveraging in-silico technologies for enhanced drug development' 💊⚗️
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Recent advances in pharmaceutical cocrystal design: leveraging in-silico technologies for enhanced drug development
Pharmaceutical cocrystals are a versatile means of enhancing the properties of drug compounds, making them a valuable asset in drug formulation and development. They can improve the therapeutic per...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Find our current issue at this link www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcry20/c... - great landing page for topical reviews of #Crystallography topics
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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The latest issue of the @IUCr #crystallography Newsletter is now available at www.iucr.org/news/newslet...
October 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🚨New review online - a deep dive into the stacking interactions of organometallic sandwich compounds 🥪💠using the Cambridge Structural Database @ccdc.cam.ac.uk

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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...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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
Meteorites: encounters with outer space and deep time
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August 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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...
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...
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August 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
New editorial from Petra Bombicz online today doi.org/10.1080/0889... - in advance of the next edition.
Crystallography from Space to the lower Earth mantle
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July 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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
(IUCr) number 3
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June 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
New article that reviews the fascinating growth of protein crystals in microgravity is available online. doi.org/10.1080/0889...
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...
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June 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
📣 New book review from @helliwelljohn.bsky.social, of the text book 'Biophysical Chemistry' by Dagmar Klostermeier and Makus G Rudolph

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Biophysical chemistry
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May 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
New review, of the book 'Data-driven discovery in the chemical sciences' published online www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Data-driven discovery in the chemical sciences Faraday discussion by The Royal Society of Chemistry
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April 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Usón & Herbst-Irmer: George M. Sheldrick (1942–2025) @unigoettingen...##IUCrhttps://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2053273325002931
George M. Sheldrick (1942–2025)
In memory of George Sheldrick.
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April 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
📣 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....
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...
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March 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
📣 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...
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...
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March 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The latest IUCr newsletter is out www.iucr.org/news/newslet... including a celebration of 10 years of @iucrj.iucr.org
(IUCr) number 1
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February 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
New editorial - Protein design and structure solution for drug discovery www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Protein design and structure solution for drug discovery
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February 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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.
The expanding world of data
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January 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
🚨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.

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Crystallography Reviews
Volume 30, Issue 2 of Crystallography Reviews
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January 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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...
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...
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December 15, 2024 at 10:18 PM
We had our editorial board meeting today, with board members joining from across the globe. Lots more exciting #crystallography reviews in the pipeline
November 18, 2024 at 9:57 AM
New Book Review 📖 of 'Transparent semiconducting oxides bulk crystal growth and fundamental properties' available online www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Transparent semiconducting oxides bulk crystal growth and fundamental properties
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November 13, 2024 at 1:57 AM
📢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🌱
Crystallography Reviews
Volume 30, Issue 1 of Crystallography Reviews
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November 13, 2024 at 1:53 AM