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Metal-Organic Materials: From Design Principles To Practical Applications, Mohamed H. Alkordi
Metal-Organic Materials: From Design Principles To Practical Applications, Mohamed H. Alkordi
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The works presented herein outline rational design approaches towards construction of solid state materials with great potentials to answer some of current demanding applications. Specifically, the materials targeted are metal−organic materials with desirable structural features and functional properties. Metal−organic materials are constructed from organic linker molecules and metal ions under relatively mild solvothermal reaction conditions that preserve the structural features of the relatively simple building blocks. Therefore, it is feasible to conceive a retrospective pathway of the reaction and thus deconstruct the desirable structures into simple, chemicallyrelevant, building blocks in an approach known as the molecular building block approach. Due …