Special Issue "Advances in Materials Derived from Polyhedral Boron Clusters"
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 28038
Special Issue Editor

2. Organic Materials Research Group, Department of Chemistry, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132, USA
Interests: carboranes; stable radicals; liquid crystals; magnetism; photophysics; photovoltaics; electro-optics; fundamental chemistry of boron clusters and radicals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Molecules is pleased to announce a Special Issue dedicated to materials chemistry of boron clusters. Owing their unique steric and electronic properties, polyhedral boranes are attractive structural elements for functional materials such as polymers, dendrimers, ionic liquids, liquid crystals that exhibit luminescent, nonlinear optical, electro-optical and redox properties, among the others. Interest in such specifically designed materials is rapidly increasing, as evident from recent literature reports, reviews and books.
This Special Issue of Molecules is dedicated to recent advances in synthesis, characterization and application of molecular and polymeric materials containing polyhedral boron clusters.
Prof. Dr. Piotr Kaszyński
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polyhedral borane clusters
- carboranes
- metallaboranes
- polymers
- crystal engineering
- ionic liquids
- liquid crystals
- photophysics including nonlinear optics
- fundamental chemistry of materials
- applications