Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to publish your work in this Special Issue of Materials entitled “Organic Materials and Hybrid Metal-Organic Materials" as an original article or review. The Issue will focus on the solid-state chemistry and functional applications of organic and hybrid metal organic materials. In this Special Issue, solid-state reactivity in organic materials such as hydrogen-bonded/halogen-bonded solids and covalent organic frameworks (COFs)) is of interest. Solid-state reactions in hybrid metal organic materials should concern solids that by means of coordination bonds form discrete or polymeric structures, as in metal organic frameworks (MOFs)/coordination polymers (CPs) but also metal organic materials obtained via second sphere interactions between metal centers and organic molecules.

The aim of this Special Issue is to gather articles correlating solid-state reactivity and structure–function properties of new functional materials generated by external stimuli. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

i) Solid-state reactions induced by temperature, pressure, light, or incoming molecules (i.e., guest reactivity, gas adsorption, and separation);

ii) Dynamic behavior of porous materials involving single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformations;

iii) Crystalline-to-amorphous-to-crystalline (CAC) reactions;

iv) Nonporous materials that adapt to external stimuli by adsorption or chemisorption of guest molecules;

v) Mechanochemically induced solid-state reactions not accessible by conventional solution chemistry;

vi) Cleavage and formation of chemical bonds in the solid state.

Prof. Javier Marti-Rujas
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• solid-state reactivity
• single-crystal-to-single-crystal
• dynamic amorphous phases
• MOFs/CPs
• mechanochemistry
• crystal-to-polycrystal reactions
• X-ray crystallography