Organic-inorganic hybrid materials are attractive due to the combination of properties from the two distinct types of materials. In this work, transparent titania-polydimethylsiloxane hybrid materials with up to 15.5 vol. % TiO₂ content were prepared by an in situ non-aqueous method using titanium (IV) isopropoxide and hydroxy-terminated polydimethylsiloxane as precursors. Spectroscopy (Fourier...

Nature provides inspiration for designing materials and systems that derive their functions from highly organized structures. Biological hard tissues are hybrid materials having inorganics within a complex organic matrix, the molecular scaffold controlling the inorganic structures. Biocomposites incorporate both biomacromolecules such as proteins, lipids and polysaccharides, and inorganic mater...

Using a hydrolysis condensation of triethoxysilane to prepare a synthetic benzoxazine-bridged bis(triethoxysilane) compound (BS), a series of benzoxazine-bridged polysilsesquioxanes precursors were prepared with different degrees of hydrolysis condensation. Ring-opening thermal homopolymerization of the benzoxazine rings in these precursors was employed to obtain several organic–inorganic hybri...

Electrorheological (ER) and magnetorheological (MR) suspensions undergo a reverse phase transition from a liquid-like to solid-like state in response to an external electric or magnetic field, respectively. This paper briefly reviews various types of electroor magneto-responsive materials from either polymeric or inorganic and hybrid composite materials. The fabrication strategies for ER/MR can...

Hybrid materials, especially in the polymer field, have drawn the attention of many researchers as they enable the combination of properties of their organic and inorganic components to improve physical and chemical properties. 4 Nanoparticle organic hybrid materials (NOHMs) represent one of the new classes of such materials 21 that consist of polymer chains (canopy) grafted onto an inorganic n...

China-US Workshop on Materials Science 02 POROUS FRAMEWORKS BASED ON INDIUM AND ORGANIC LIGANDS Maochun Hong Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China May 23 – 25, 2005, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, BEIJING, CHINA 2 China-US Workshop on Materials Science Abstract 03 METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS AND POLYHEDRA (MOFS AND MOPS): NEW...

MRS BULLETIN • VOLUME 35 • FEBRUARY 2010 • www.mrs.org/bulletin Abstract In biology, organic-inorganic hybrid materials are used for several purposes, in particular, for protection and mechanical support. These materials are generally optimized for their function through precise control over the structure, size, shape, and assembly of the component parts and can be superior to many synthetic ma...

We demonstrate an analog type logical device that combines metalloprotein and organic/inorganic materials and can make an interactive analog decision. Myoglobin is used as a functional biomolecule to generate electrochemical signals, and its original redox signal is controlled with various mercapto-acids by the distance effect between myoglobin and a metal surface in the process of electron tra...

Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Polaron Dynamics in Polymer and Hybrid Photovoltaic Thin Films: Organic vs Inorganic Acceptors Kevin M. Noone, Selvam Subramaniyan, Qifeng Zhang, Guozhong Cao, Samson A. Jenekhe, and David S. Ginger* Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, and Department of Materials Science and Engineeering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 981...