Hybrid Materials: An Alternative Route Towards Metal-Polymer Hybrid Materials Prepared by Vapor-Phase Processing (Adv. Funct. Mater. 16/2011)

Materials and Wireless Microfluidic Systems for Electronics Capable of Chemical Dissolution on Demand (Adv. Funct. Mater. 92015)

Polymer/Nanoparticle Hybrid Materials of Precise Dimensions by Size‐Exclusive Fishing of Metal Nanoparticles

Polymer cages prepared by etching of gold nanoparticles from polymer templates by the "grafting around" method are designed for selective separation of metal nanoparticles. The separation process is demonstrated as a fast biphasic ligand exchange reaction. The high separation efficiency and size selectivity of the polymer cage is verified by comparison with the linear block copolymer.

Three-Dimensional (3D) Printing of Polymer-Metal Hybrid Materials by Fused Deposition Modeling

Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is a three-dimensional (3D) printing technology that is usually performed with polymers that are molten in a printer nozzle and placed line by line on the printing bed or the previous layer, respectively. Nowadays, hybrid materials combining polymers with functional materials are also commercially available. Especially combinations of polymers with metal particle...

Introduction to Hybrid Materials

Recent technological breakthroughs and the desire for new functions generate an enormous demand for novel materials. Many of the well-established materials, such as metals, ceramics or plastics cannot fulfill all technological desires for the various new applications. Scientists and engineers realized early on that mixtures of materials can show superior properties compared with their pure coun...

Self-assembly of Multifunctional Cluster Based Metal Organic Hybrid Materials

The spontaneous assembly of molecular building blocks into supramolecular and giant molecular assemblies occurs in nature as for instance in cells with the assembly of lipid bilayer membranes. Taking advantage of these bio-synthesis strategies to create novel self-assembled multifunctional nanostructured in which pre-designed and functionalized molecules are self-assembled into supramolecular a...