The most recent advances in high-entropy materials provide impetus for the development of high-performance materials, simultaneously providing high-temperature robustness and excellent functional properties owing to the high configurational entropy and distorted lattices.
An overview is given of the recent advances in the field of modulated molecular and inorganic crystals with an emphasis on the links between incommensurability, intermolecular and interatomic interactions and, wherever possible, the properties of the materials. The importance of detailed knowledge on the modulated structure for understanding the crystal chemistry and the functional properties of modulated phases is shown using selected examples of incommensurate modulations in organic molecular compounds and inorganic complex oxides.
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), also known as hybrid inorganic-organic materials, represent an emerging class of materials that have attracted the imagination of solid-state chemists because MOFs combine unprecedented levels of porosity with a range of other functional properties that occur through the metal moiety and/or the organic ligand. The purpose of this critical review is to give a representative and comprehensive overview of the arising developments in the field of functional metal-organic frameworks, including luminescence, magnetism, and porosity through presenting examples. This review will be of interest to researchers and synthetic chemists attempting to design multifunctional MOFs.
Here we discuss the emerging field of luminescent lanthanide-based soft materials with our focus on the different approaches used for their design and synthesis as well as manipulations of their functional properties.
Preface on Special Issue for Recent Advances of Solidification Processing-Techniques and Analysis Techniques for Improvement of Mechanical and Functional Properties of Materials
