The Supramolecular Chemistry of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials

Knut Rurack · Ramon Martinez-Manez

Apr 2010 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

The combination of supramolecular chemistry, inorganic solids, and nanotechnology has already led to significant advances in many areas such as sensing, controlled motion, and delivery. By making possible an unprecedented tunability of the properties of nanomaterials, these techniques open up whole new areas of application for future supramolecular concepts. The Supramolecular Chemistry of Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials gathers current knowledge on the subject and provides an overview of the present state and upcoming challenges in this rapidly growing, highly cross- or interdisciplinary research field.

The book details how these designed materials can improve existing materials or generate novel functional features such as chemical amplification, cooperative binding and signal enhancement that are difficult or not at all achievable by classical organic supramolecular chemistry. It also discusses issues related to nanofabrication or nanotechnology such as the directed and controlled assembly or disassembly, biomimetic functions and strategies, and the gating and switching of surface functions or morphology.

About the author

KNUT RURACK received his PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin and then joined the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing where he currently leads a group in the Bioanalytics Division. The coauthor of over 70 research publications and one patent, he is a member of the German and American Chemical Societies.

RAMÓN MARTÍNEZ-MÁÑEZ received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Valencia and was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University, UK. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the coauthor of more than 170 research publications and eight patents. He is a member of the American Chemical Society.