Crystalline compounds built up of periodically ordered nanostructured inorganic semiconductor motifs and organic molecules are a new type of hybrid semiconducting materials that are of great fundamental importance and technological relevance. The most appealing feature of these materials is that many favorable properties of each individual component are brought into the hybrid structure by inco...

Following to the recent development of the organic-templated growth of materials, new types of photonic hybrid composite materials have emerged whose structure and function are organized hierarchically. Ordered, periodic mesoscopic materials allow the construction of composites with many types of guest, such as organic molecules or polymers. These host–guest materials combine the high stability...

Hybrid organic–inorganic materials offer an alternative to state-of-the-art Pb-based piezoelectric materials. Here, we develop a model Hamiltonian including vibrational entropic contributions simulate their order–disorder phase transitions.

Organic-inorganic hybrid polyoxometalate (POM) compounds are a subset of materials with unique structures and physical/chemical properties. The combination of metal-organic coordination complexes with classical POMs not only provides a powerful way to gain multifarious new compounds but also affords a new method to modify and functionalize POMs. In parallel with the many reports on the synthesi...

UV patternable high refractive index inorganic–organic hybrid materials prepared by sol–gel process can be nanoimprinted in order to get photonic crystal nanopatterns. Non-hydrolytic sol–gel process can make a UV curable and relatively high refractive index hybrid material, which can be cured without a significant shrinkage for nanoimprinting. Sol–gel process of heterogeneously functionalized s...