This collection aims to highlight the importance of disorder in framework materials, including characterisation their structures and the types of disorder present, and the role of disorder in the materials’ properties and function.

This Collection aims to showcase research on small molecule and crystalline framework polymorphism, with a focus on applications in pharmaceutical and materials sciences, as well as state-of-the-art techniques for the prediction, analysis, and characterisation of polymorphs.

This Collection aims to offer insight and inspiration for nucleic acid chemistry, focusing on the structure, function, generation, modification, characterization, as well as application of nucleic acids.

This Collection aims to bring together the latest research on mechanically interlocked molecules, including with respect to their design, construction, characterization, properties, function and application.

This Guest Edited Collection aims to bring together research at the intersection of systems chemistry and coacervation. We welcome both experimental and theoretical studies.

This Main Group Chemistry Collection invites submissions covering fundamental and applied research and welcomes both experimental and theoretical contributions.

In this cross-journal Collection, across Nature Communications, Communications Chemistry, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports, we focus on different forms of self-assembled soft matter, from fundamental studies to applied systems. This includes, for example, coacervation and liquid-liquid phase separation, chiral systems and polymer assemblies.

Mass spectrometry is a cornerstone technique across various scientific disciplines, enabling precise analysis of complex samples, characterization of atom clusters and molecules, and elucidation of reaction mechanisms. This cross-journal Collection brings together advances in method development for mass spectrometry, including but not limited to advances in sample preparation, instrumentation, automation and integration, computational data analysis and prediction.

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key technology to combat global climate issues. By utilizing renewable energy, we can convert greenhouse gases into value-added commodity chemicals. While there has been a growing number of CO2 research in recent years, there are still many unanswered fundamental questions and engineering challenges. With this collection, we encourage scientists from different academic backgrounds to explore these remaining challenges in the CO2 electrochemical reduction reaction and provide a forum for the CO2 community to share their latest research results. We welcome all submission of original research articles, reviews and perspectives related to the theme of CO2 electrocatalytic reduction.

This Guest Edited Collection aims to bring together research focused on polymeric transformations mediated by organocatalysts, primarily focusing on organomediated polymeric transformations, but also other sustainable catalysts such as work on biocatalytic polymerizations and work using earth abundant sustainable metals, as well as new perspectives on the depolymerization of polymers synthesized by the above or related methodologies.

This cross-journal Collection brings together the latest developments in electrodes, electrolytes, and battery components used in aqueous and non-aqueous sodium-based battery applications.

This Collection aims to offer insights and inspiration for the development of fluorescent probes for biological imaging and sensing. We encourage submissions that focus on design strategies and rational response mechanisms, electronic and spectral characteristics, and biological applications as powerful tools for chemical biology.