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Design and Synthesis of Three-Dimensional Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Structures

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Materials Characterization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2022) | Viewed by 3818

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Edward Szłyk

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Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, 87-100 Torun, Poland
Interests: metal organic precursors for CVD, ALD, FEBID; volatile metal complexes; metal organic structures with optically active ligands; hybrid layers for fluorescence probes; surface analysis of noble metal thin layers; magnetochemical properties; gas adsorption; surface catalysis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Research on Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Structures has been developed for the last decade due to the impact of the new structures on technological development of materials for optoelectronics, luminescence sensors, or medicine materials and biopolymers. The development of different ways of fabrications such as: wet deposition techniques, mechanochemistry, gas phase deposition or electrons in focused ion beam systems provides numerous new materials. Crystal engineering of inorganic and organic structures have made progress in terms of new applications of the solid state chemistry. When combine new structures with the characterization techniques new experimental design area in the field of materials chemistry will be foreseen. The insights gained from the surface analysis and X-ray structure will provide optimization of material design. The knowledge on material systems and production techniques will provide increased capabilities and performance of the hybrid layers and structures.

In this Special Issue, recent developments within the field of 3D organic-inorganic structures and structural characterization will be presented. Submissions will be welcomed across a broad range of material systems, with the special interest on characterization focusing on fabrication development and novel applications.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications and reviews are all welcome.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • 3D inorganic networks
  • MOF structures and char acteristics
  • hybrid layers with designed properties for opto-materials
  • crystal engineering
  • molecular crystals for luminescence
  • inorganic structures for personalized medicine
  • precursors for 3D structures
  • methods of 3D structures fabrications

Prof. Dr. Edward Szłyk
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • inorganic-organic structures
  • MOFs
  • hybrid layers
  • crytals engineering
  • materials chemistry
  • luminescence
  • optomaterials
  • personalized medicine

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Copper Nitride Nanowire Arrays—Comparison of Synthetic Approaches
by Aleksandra Scigala, Edward Szłyk, Tomasz Rerek, Marek Wiśniewski, Lukasz Skowronski, Marek Trzcinski and Robert Szczesny
Materials 2021, 14(3), 603; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14030603 - 28 Jan 2021
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Copper nitride nanowire arrays were synthesized by an ammonolysis reaction of copper oxide precursors grown on copper surfaces in an ammonia solution. The starting Cu films were deposited on a silicon substrate using two different methods: thermal evaporation (30 nm thickness) and electroplating [...] Read more.
Copper nitride nanowire arrays were synthesized by an ammonolysis reaction of copper oxide precursors grown on copper surfaces in an ammonia solution. The starting Cu films were deposited on a silicon substrate using two different methods: thermal evaporation (30 nm thickness) and electroplating (2 μm thickness). The grown CuO or CuO/Cu(OH)2 architectures were studied in regard to morphology and size, using electron microscopy methods (SEM, TEM). The final shape and composition of the structures were mostly affected by the concentration of the ammonia solution and time of the immersion. Needle-shaped 2–3 μm long nanostructures were formed from the electrodeposited copper films placed in a 0.033 M NH3 solution for 48 h, whereas for the copper films obtained by physical vapor deposition (PVD), well-aligned nano-needles were obtained after 3 h. The phase composition of the films was studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and selected area electron diffraction (SAED) analysis, indicating a presence of CuO and Cu(OH)2, as well as Cu residues. Therefore, in order to obtain a pure oxide film, the samples were thermally treated at 120–180 °C, after which the morphology of the structures remained unchanged. In the final stage of this study, Cu3N nanostructures were obtained by an ammonolysis reaction at 310 °C and studied by SEM, TEM, XRD, and spectroscopic methods. The fabricated PVD-derived coatings were also analyzed using a spectroscopic ellipsometry method, in order to calculate dielectric function, band gap and film thickness. Full article
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