Nanostructured hybrid organic-inorganic composites

Recentiy, a new class of organic-inorganic hybrid materials based on the ultra incorporation of nano-sized fillers (nanofillers) into a polymer matrix has been investigated. Nanotechnology is the aptitude to work on a scale of about 1-100 nm in order to understand, create, characterize and use material structure, devices, and system with unique properties derived from their base on the nanostructures. Nanocomposites could exhibit exclusive modifications in their properties, compared with conventional composites in terms of physical properties, including gas barrier, flammability resistance, thermal and environmental stability, solvent uptake, and rate of biodegradability of biodegradable (Chivrac et al. 2009). 

Surface has seen a tremendous boost and is believed to be a fourth state of matter [1]. Comparing to molecules in bulk, molecules at the surface of a material constimte a different environment, thus own different free energies, reactivities, electronic states, mobilities, and structures. Meanwhile, the properties of hybrid materials, composited from two or more nano or molecularly different components, depend on their surface and interfacial environment. During the past decade, organic/inorganic hybrid nanostructures have been paid close attention and shown a wide application prospect in terms of their optical, mechanical, electrical, catalytic and electrochemical properties [2],... 

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