Inorganic-organic hybrid polymer networks

Wilkes, G. L. Brennan, A. B. Huang, H.-H. Rodrigues, D. Wang, B., The Synthesis, Structure, and Property Behavior of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Network Materials Prepared by the Sol-Gel Process. In Polymer-Based Molecular Composites, Schaefer, D. W. Mark, J. E., Eds. Materials Research Society Pittsburgh, PA, 1990 Vol. 171, pp 15-29. 

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), also known as coordination polymers or coordination networks, have attracted tremendous attention over the last decade due to their promising applications in gas storage [1,2], gas capture [3], separations [4], chemical catalysis [5], luminescence [6-8], magnetism [9], and dmg delivery [10]. MOFs are highly crystalline inorganic-organic hybrid materials comprised of metal ions or... 

PCPs have infinite networks with backbones constructed by metal ions as connectors and ligands as linkers, and form a family of inorganic and organic hybrid polymers. The structural integrity of the building units, which can be maintained throughout the reactions, allows for their use as modules in the assembly of extended structures. Werner complexes, /3-M(4-melhylpyridyl)4(NCS)2 (M = Ni(II) or Co(II)) [48], Prussian blue compounds [49-51], and Hofmann clathrates and their... 

Silicone co-polymer networks and IPNs have recently been reviewed.321 The development of IPNs is briefly described, and the definitions of the main (non-exclusive) classes of the IPNs are cited. Examples of latex IPNs, simultaneous and sequential IPNs, semi-IPNs, and thermoplastic IPNs are provided. The use of silicone-silicone IPNs in studies of model silicone networks is also illustrated. Networks in which siloxane and non-siloxane components are connected via chemical bonds are considered co-polymer networks, although some other names have been applied to such networks. Today, some of the examples in this category should, perhaps, be discussed as organic-inorganic hybrids, or nanocomposites. Silicone IPNs are discussed in almost all of the major references dealing with IPNs.322-324 Silicone IPNs are also briefly discussed in some other, previously cited, reviews.291,306... 

There are several kinds of such composites, including the polymers filled in situ by inorganic particles, hybrids formed on simultaneous formation of interpenetrating organic and inorganic networks, and materials obtained by the introduction of organic substances into the polymer inorganic networks. 

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