Metal-Organic Complexes: Applications in Chemistry and Materials Science

Dear Colleagues,

Metal–organic complexes represent powerful building blocks for advanced materials with applications in chemistry, catalysis, electronics, photonics, spintronics, solar cells, medicine, and many others. The wide area application of metal–organic complexes is rooted in their hybrid structure, which effectively unites the features of organic and inorganic matter and gives rise to a rich response to external stimuli (pH, light, voltage, temperature, pressure, etc.). Despite the paramount number of scientific publications and discoveries in the field, the challenges in the design of metal–organic complexes still exist at both the molecular and supramolecular level. These challenges are associated with the need for a better fundamental understanding of the role of the metal–ligand interactions and intermolecular packing for the tunability of material response.

This Special Issue of Molecules is devoted to the recent advances in the structure-based design of metal–organic complexes with a special focus on their broad-spectrum applications in chemistry and materials science. It will collect original papers or mini-reviews on the theoretical and experimental progress in the field.

Dr. Julia Romanova
Guest Editor

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