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Mixed-anion or heteroanion compounds are single-phase materials in which the cations are bonded to more than just one kind of anion. By controlling the anion composition, structural, electric, optical, thermal, electrochemical, and catalytic properties can be effectively modified. Such materials are currently attracting increasing attention as tunable functional materials in applications ranging from electronics and optics to catalysis and energy conversion, and beyond. For various applications and research targets, the mixed-anion materials are synthesised in powder, single-crystal and thin-film forms via diverse synthesis approaches, often supported by advanced theoretical calculations.

The possible areas of interest for this collection include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Oxynitrides and oxyhalides for batteries
• Mixed chalcogenides and oxychalcogenides for thermoelectrics
• Oxyhalides and oxypnictides for superconductivity
• Various mixed-anion compounds for (photo)catalysis
• Oxynitrides and oxyhalides for photoluminescence
• Oxynitrides and oxycarbides for microelectronics
• Inorganic compounds incorporating molecular anions (with [SCN]^-, [NCN]^2-, [BH₄]^-, [S₂]^2- etc.)

Spotlight collections are ongoing web collections which collate critical recent and new work in the field. See the Mixed-Anion Compounds collection as it grows, .

All types of manuscript – communications, full papers and review-type articles – will be considered for publication. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines. If you would like to submit to this collection, please email dalton-rsc@rsc.org to let us know the potential title, abstract and article type for your submission.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes as necessary, and inclusion in the Collection will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. Please indicate in your submission that you are submitting to this Collection and inform the Editorial Office by email.

Following our peer-review process, we will publish accepted articles online in a citeable form as soon as they are ready, with compilation of the complete collection in mid-2025.

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The Emerging Investigator Series has an overall objective to showcase significant research by newer voices from across the worldwide inorganic chemistry research community. We will consider additional applications and nominations on their own merit. Self-nominations are also strongly encouraged.

Both research articles and review articles are welcome to the series. Papers accepted for publication in the Emerging Investigator Series will be published in the earliest available issue and collated together in a dedicated Emerging Investigator Series page that will appear across Frontiers journals’ websites. All submissions to the Emerging Investigator Series will be subject to the journal’s high standards in peer review.

In order to be featured in the Emerging Investigator Series, contributors must:

• currently, be an independent research leader
• be the lead author (first author and/or corresponding author) of their article at the journal
• have either a) hold a PhD degree and be at the age of 40 or less in the year of submission, or b) received their PhD no earlier than 01 January of the year 12 years prior to the year of submission, or c) have no more than 12 years of post-PhD research experience on 01 January in the year of submission when taking into account any career breaks.

If you are interested to contribute to this series, please provide an up-to-date CV to the Editorial Office before submission, or simply opt-in for this series during submitting your manuscript and attach the CV as a supporting document.