Inorganic-organic hybrid crystals

It should be mentioned that in principle, the same structures, island formation or epitaxy can also be obtained by evaporating the molecules onto a substrate which is already being held at a correspondingly higher temperature. 

It is interesting to observe which structures the film adopts with increasing thickness during its deposition or on tempering. When the first molecular layers on the substrate have a structure determined by the latter, then this influence will decrease in importance with increasing layer thickness. Finally, the substance will continue to grow in its own crystal structure. This competition between different forces can lead to the occurrence of complex transition regions and to strains in the layers, or also to the formation of different phases. 

There are also substances which sublime at higher temperatures and which can be collected at not-too-low temperatures (e.g. at room temperature) as large, very thin, free-standing crystal platelets of high quality. Among these are for example anthracene and pentacene. More about this subject will follow in Sect. 3.3, on crystal growth. 

An interesting class of crystals are the hybrid crystals, in which an organic partner is built into an inorganic crystal lattice in a stoichiometric ratio. A nice example of this are the lead halides. 

Estimate the heat of sublimation of the anthracene crystal from the atom-atom potentials using the parameter set of Williams (Table 2.2 and Fig. 2.2b). 

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TABLE 3. Asymmetric autocatalysis in reaction of 87 initiated by chiral inorganic crystals, inorganic-organic hybrid materials and chiral cocrystals of achiral compounds... 

Single-crystal X-ray analysis of compound 8 revealed that it was a novel ID inorganic-organic hybrid coordination polymer (Fig. 12), possessing a linear chain composed by trinuclear Cu3I4 units. The three Cu atoms form a slightly distorted equilateral triangle. A noteworthy structural feature of 8 are... 

Interestingly, compounds of category II and III show crystal-to-crystal transformation . In a sense, this property results from the molecular inorganic-organic hybrid system. 

Recent advances have demonstrated that synthetic template directed crystal growth and mediated self-assembly of nanoparticles can provide promising ways for the rational design of various ordered inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials with complexity and structural specialty. However,... 

Onishi S., Ohmori T., Ohkubo T., Noguchi H., Li D., Hanzawa Y., Kanoh H. and Kaneko K., Hydrogen-bond change-associated gas adsorption in inorganic-organic hybrid microporous crystals. Appl. Surf. Sci. 196 (2002)... 

Boron clusters are effective and unusual structural elements for designing calamitic and bent-core mesogens. Their structural and electronic diversity combined with judicious choice of substituents makes it possible to address fundamental aspects of liquid crystal research, to design LCs with unusual properties, and to prepare technologically important materials. Properties of these formally inorganic-organic hybrid mesogens, such as photophysical behavior, polarity, and phase structure, can be tuned by judicious choice of the cluster and substituents. 

Inorganic organic hybrid polymer dispersed liquid crystalline nanocomposites are reported as suitable candidate for fahricatirHi of photorefractive medium. Winiarz et al. reported one such photorefractive medium which consists of hole transporting polymer composite matrix, electro-opticaUy active nanodroplets of liquid crystal and Cadmium sulphide quantum dots as photosentizers (Winiarz and Prasad 2002). They employed poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) as polymer matrix, N-ethylcarbazole (ECZ) as hole transporting medium and commercial nematic liquid crystal mixture TL 202 for fabrication of the photorefractive medium with Cadmium sulphide as photosentizer. The reported medium exhibits more than 90 % internal diffraction efficiency which is relatively high compared with other PDLC photorefractive medium. 

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