Hybrid perovskites combine the optical and electronic versatility of ionic inorganic solids with the synthetic diversity and tunability of covalent organic molecules. Their multicomponent, crystalline architectures, incorporating a wide array of metals, ligands, and organic molecules, can be synthetically fine-tuned to accommodate diverse target technologies. In this Perspective, we highlight h...

Hybrid framework compounds, including both metal-organic coordination polymers and systems that contain extended inorganic connectivity (extended inorganic hybrids), have recently developed into an important new class of solid-state materials. We examine the diversity of this complex class of materials, propose a simple but systematic classification, and explore the chemical and geometrical fac...

Transparent Nonlinear Optical (NLO) inorganic/organic (polyimide/silica) hybrid composites with covalent links between the inorganic and the organic networks were prepared by the sol-gel method. The silica content in the hybrid films was varied from 0 to 22.5/wt%. The prepared PI hybrids were characterized by IR, UV-Vis, Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electr...

A promising way of fabricating integrated optics components is based on the sol–gel synthesis and photocuring of organic-inorganic hybrid materials. However, the main factor limiting the development of passive devices is the propagation losses. Moreover, the possibility to compensate these attenuations by optical amplification is competed with the multiphonon relaxation associated to the presen...

MOLECULAR CRYSTALLIZATION DIRECTED BY NANOPARTICLESAND NANOPATTERNS byLI LIAugust 2013Advisor: Dr. Guangzhao MaoMajor: Materials Science and EngineeringDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyThis dissertation focuses on nanoparticle/nanopattern-induced molecularself-assembly and crystallization. We propose a universal strategy to synthesizeorganic/inorganic hybrid n...

High performance functional coatings, based on hybrid organic/inorganic materials, are being developed to combine the polymer flexibility and ease of processing with the mechanical properties and versatility of inorganic materials. By incorporating silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) in the polymeric matrices, it is possible to obtain hybrid polymer films with increased tensile strength and impact res...

Maleimide-functionalized polystyrene (PSMA-SiO2/TiO2) hybrid nanocomposites were prepared by sol-gel reaction starting from tratraethoxysilane (TEOS) and titanium isopropoxide in the solution of polystyrene maleimide in 1,4-dioxane. The hybrid films were obtained by the hydrolysis and polycondensation of TEOS and titanium isopropoxide in maleimide-functionalized polystyrene solution followed by...

The abundant selection of organic molecules and inorganic units has allowed for the fabrication organic–inorganic hybrid metal halides (OIMHs) various morphologies crystal structures with controllable molecular dimensions unique photoelectric properties.

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...