The Supramolecular Chemistry of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials
The Supramolecular Chemistry of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials
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DOI:
10.1021/ja1059312
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发表时间:
2010-07
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15
通讯作者:
P. Weiss
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作者:
P. Weiss
The editors of this book took on a tremendous challenge in covering this topic, as organic-inorganic hybrids comprise an incredibly diverse array of complex materials. Many of the chapters could be entire books of their own. As the editors point out, it was not even possible to come up with a consistent set of acronyms. Nonetheless, the topics covered are steadily merging, and one hopes that the different communities of scientists can learn from each other as their research progresses inexorably toward greater sophistication, precision, and ultimately function.As one might expect, the topics are covered somewhat unevenly in terms of depth and there is a degree of redundancy in the introductions to several chapters. The strength and value in this volume come from the excellent overviews written by such leading authors as Brinker, Husskens, Reinhoudt, Wiesner, and the late Lin. Other chapters have narrower focuses and do not serve their topics well; although one can still find useful vectors to related topics and papers, many of these areas are better covered in current literature reviews. One chapter (24) puts forth network analyses of the field to assess its “interdisciplinarity”; this does not add anything to the content of the book, and the space would have been better used with more on the science of supramolecular assemblies. Although the authors and editors have not produced a holistic perspective of these interrelated areas, this book will find use for those generally interested in such hybrid systems. With some