Surface chemistry, molecular tailoring

Interfaces are tailored with molecules. Heterogeneous catalysts can be made from molecules that are known to be homogeneous catalysts by immobilizing them on the surfaces of solids. Surfaces can be made hydrophobic with halogenized silane derivatives. Molecules can act as antenna dyes in novel types of solar cells or in nanoelectronic materials for optical devices. Surface chemistry is molecular chemistry. 

A variety of metal cluster compounds have been chemically bound on amorphous metal oxides and entrapped inside zeolite cages by new preparative tools such as surface organometallic chemistry and the so-called ship-in-bottle technique. They oflier much promise as molecular precursors for rational preparation of tailored metal catalysts having a uniform distribution of discrete metal-bimetallic ensembles, namely, organometallics which are active for catalytic reactions. They also provide advantages as metal precursors to achieve higher metal dispersions and well-managed metal... 

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