This article is published as part of the CrystEngComm Collection entitled: Crystal Engineering with Ionic Liquids Guest Editors: Mark Muldoon, Cristina Lagunas-Castedo and Peter Nockemann Published in issue 15, 2012 of CrystEngComm Articles in this issue include: Supramolecular architectures of symmetrical dicationic ionic liquid based systems Haregewine Tadesse, Alexander J. Blak , Neil R. Champness, John E. Warren, Pierre J. Rizkallah and Peter Licence Crystal structures of low-melting ionic transition-metal complexes with N-alkylimidazole ligands Tom Vander Hoogerstraete, Neil R. Brooks, Bernadette Norberg, Johan Wouters, Kristof Van Hecke, Luc Van Meervelt and Koen Binnemans Compositional control of AuPt nanoparticles synthesized in ionic liquids by the sputter deposition technique Shushi Suzuki, Toshimasa Suzuki, Yousuke Tomita, Masanori Hirano, Ken-ichi Okazaki, Susumu Kuwabata and Tsukasa Torimoto Visit the CrystEngComm website for more cutting-edge crystal engineering research Downloaded by RSC Internal on 10 July 2012 Published on 13 June 2012 on http://pubs.rsc.org | doi:10.1039/C2CE25064K View Online / Journal Homepage / Table of Contents for this issue