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Crystal Engineering of Multifunctional Molecular Materials
In this paper we will focus on the crystal engineering of molecular materials exhibiting magnetic and/or electrical properties. The complexity of these materials needs of a precise design of the molecular buil...
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Hydrogen-Bonded Crystals of Exceptional Dielectric Properties
Hydrogen bonds are well known for governing the molecular association and crystal packing, as well as for their contribution to the chemical and physical properties of substances. They affect the properties of...
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Design, Characterization and Use of Crystalline Thin Film Architectures at the Air-Liquid Interface
The lecture notes describe the design, characterization and use of crystalline thin film architectures at the air-water interface. Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) using synchrotron radiation has bee...
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From Bonds to Packing: An Energy-Based Crystal Packing Analysis for Molecular Crystals Packing Analysis for Molecular Crystals
The analysis of the crystal structure based only on distance considerations (short-contact analysis) presents some problems, as not always the shortest contacts are the most attractive. Here, it is shown how a...
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NMR Crystallography and the Elucidation of Structure-Property Relationships in Crystalline Solids
SSNMR spectroscopy, an established technique for identifying crystalline polymorphs and solvates, can provide detailed structural information useful for rationalizing materials properties in terms of molecular...
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Signalling By Modulation of Intermolecular Interactions
The importance of intermolecular interactions in the solid-state for modulation of material properties useful for signaling is discussed. Specifically, the genesis of crystalline solvatochromism; crystalline f...
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Building Conducting Materials from Design to Devices
The electronic and structural characteristics of organic molecules that generate materials with conducting properties will be analyzed, emphasizing specially the design of the material and the methodology for ...
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Crystal Structure Determination from X-Ray Powder Diffraction Data
Many crystalline materials cannot be prepared in a suitable form for conventional single-crystal diffraction studies, and hence the successful structure characterisation and rationalisation of these materials ...
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Self-Assembled Monolayers as Templates for Inorganic Crystallization: a Bio-Inspired Approach
Nature produces a wide variety of exquisite mineralized tissues fulfilling diverse functions, and often from simple inorganic salts. Organisms exercise a level of molecular control over the physico-chemical pr...
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Case Studies on Intermolecular Interactions in Crystalline Metals
It is the purpose of this contribution to take the reader throughout a set of case studies which serve to illustrate an integrated approach which spans the design of functional π-conjugated precursors, their a...
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Complementarity: Correlating Structural Features with Physical Properties in Supramolecular Systems
In recent years a number of complementary techniques have been developed to study the correlation between crystalline structure and physical behaviour of inclusion compounds. In this article, case studies are ...
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Nanostructured Frameworks for Materials Applications
Strategies for the synthesis of frameworks materials based upon either coordination bonds or hydrogen-bonding interactions are described. The utilization of coordinate bonds for the construction of coordinatio...
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Topological Approaches to the Structure of Crystalline and Amorphous Atom Assemblies
Crystalline assemblies of atoms possess not only symmetry and periodicity but also a topology that provides additional information not explicit in a conventional description. A topological description of struc...
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Chirality In Crystals
Chirality is recognized strongly in the crystalline state and often only in the phase. Chiral supramolecular structures can be engineered by using conformationally flexible achiral or chiral compounds of axial...
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Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Molecule-Based Magnets
The discovery of organic- and molecule-based magnets has led to several design criteria for their design and synthesis, and several families with magnetic ordering temperatures as high as ̃125°C have been repo...
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On the Calculation and Interpretation of Crystal Energy Landscapes
The energetically feasible crystal structures of a molecule can be computed for an increasing range of types of molecule, provided sufficient care is taken to ensure that their relative energies are calculated...
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Hydrogen Bonding and Concurrent Interactions
The lecture deals with the various forms of interactions with dominant electrostatic component. It points to dipole/dipole interactions as strong structure determining factor that often accompanies hydrogen bo...
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Organic Materials for Nonlinear Optics
Interest in nonlinear optics has grown continuously since these phenomena first emerged and the field now encompasses fundamental studies of the interaction of light with matter and the development of new mate...
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Biomineralization of Organic Phases Associated With Human Diseases
Crystal deposition diseases are a type of biomineralization process. Most reviews of pathological crystallization events focus on the formation of inorganic phases (e.g. calcium carbonates, calcium phosphates)...
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Surface Properties of the Binary Alloy Thin Films
The theory of order-disorder phenomena of different physical nature in binary alloy thin films of AB3 type is considered. The investigations are based on the model of the samples with restricted dimension when it...
