Tailored Organic-Inorganic Materials

Covers the state of the art in building laminar materials of different kinds for diverse applications In recent years, powerful separation techniques, ultrasensitive spectrometry and high-performance computing, to name a few, have made possible the designing of materials with properties that promises a solution to central problems like global warming and inevitable shortages of classical energy sources. The famous query by Richard Feynman, What would the properties of materials be if we could really arrange the atoms (molecules) the way we want them? heralds the voice and goal of Tailored Organic-Inorganic Materials. Moreover, Feynman wondered: What could we do with layered structures with just the right layers? Drawn from a symposium on Layered Materials presented at the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) conference held in Puerto Rico, Tailored Organic-Inorganic Materials: Presents a case for an often overlooked hybrid material: organic-clay materials Explores the limitless ability to design new materials by layering clay materials within organic compounds Offers assembly, properties, characterization, and current and potential applications to inspire the development of novel materials Coincides with the government's Materials Genome Initiative, to inspire the development of green, sustainable, robust materials that lead to efficient use of limited resources Contains a thorough introductory and chemical foundation before delving into techniques, characterization, and properties of these materials Discusses applications in biocatalysis, drug delivery, and energy storage and recovery Appropriate for materials scientists and engineers, organic and inorganic chemists at the graduate and research level, the chapters in this book provide details on the effect of functionalization and form of the phosphonic acids in the final outcome of the hybrid. It will provide chemists the firm tools and knowledge to create new interesting substances by the recreation of the laminar materials in Nature, i.e. the clay family of minerals. Ernesto Brunet, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Formerly a Fulbright and NATO Fellow with Prof. Ernest L. Eliel at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he has worked on numerous structural and stereochemical problems that led to his interest in the building of organic-inorganic materials where the organic moieties display unusual properties within the supramolecular architecture. Jorge L. Colón, PhD, is Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Puerto Rico. His research focuses on the use of layered inorganic materials in applications ranging from artificial photosynthesis, amperometric biosensors, vapochromic materials, and drug delivery systems. Abraham Clearfield, PhD, is Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. He received his BA and MA from Temple University in Philadelphia and his Ph.D. at Rutgers University in 1954. He has worked extensively on layered compounds, intercalation chemistry, inorganic ion exchangers including zeolites and metal phosphonate chemistry. He has published 560 papers in peer reviewed journals, edited four books and holds about 15 patents.