Molecular electronics intercalated layered compounds

Although there are numerous families of lamellar solids, only a handful of them exhibit the kind of versatile intercalation chemistry that forms the basis of this book. In arriving at the content of this volume, the editors have accurately identified six classes of versatile layered compounds that are at the forefront of materials intercalation chemistry, namely, smectite clays, zirconium phosphates and phos-phonates, layered double hydroxides (known informally as hydrotalcites or anionic clays ), layered manganese oxides, layered metal chalcogenides, and lamellar alkali silicates and silicic acids. Graphite and carbon nanotubes have not been included, in part because this specialty area of intercalation chemistry is limited to one or two molecular layers of comparatively small guest species that are capable of undergoing electron transfCT reactions with the host structure. 

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