Special Issue "Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials"

Guest Editor
PD Dr. Dominik Brühwiler
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Institute of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Einsiedlerstrasse 31, CH-8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland
Website: http://home.zhaw.ch/~breh/
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Phone: +41 58 934 5543
Interests: mesoporous materials; zeolites; host-guest inclusion compounds; energy transfer; luminescence; solar energy conversion

Dear Colleagues,

Research on functional hybrid materials has become one of the most rapidly developing fields of materials chemistry. In its most basic sense, a hybrid material is obtained by combining at least two components, commonly inorganic and organic, at the nanometer scale. Methods to synthesize inorganic-organic hybrid materials are often based on soft chemistry approaches, such as sol-gel processes, intercalation, exchange, or grafting. Considering the variety of combinations of components (and properties), inorganic-organic hybrids represent an intriguing class of materials with a large spectrum of applications. This special issue of Materials focuses on the synthesis of functional inorganic-organic hybrid materials, on the elucidation of structure-property relationships, as well as on the organization of hybrid building blocks on the micro- and macroscopic scale.

Dr. Dominik Brühwiler
Guest Editor

Submission

All papers should be submitted to materials@mdpi.com. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at the special website.

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Article Processing Charges (APC)

Article Processing Charges (APC) will be waived for well prepared manuscripts of invited papers. For the first two volumes of this new journal the APC are of 300 CHF (or 550 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections).

• Synthetic Strategies
• Hierarchical Organization
• Silica-based Hybrid Materials
• Porous Structures
• Smart Materials
• Biological
• Medical
• Optical
• Electronic Applications