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Structural Characterization of Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Materials

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Organic–inorganic sol–gel hybrid materials (OIHM) possess a high variability in configurations and arrangements of the organic and inorganic components, whose interaction can be mainly regulated through different weak or strong iono-covalent bonds. They can be prepared employing organically modified alkoxides which contain one or more covalent bonds, not cleaved during the sol–gel process and whose organic groups modify the inorganic network or undergo polymerization. Also, organic–inorganic mesostructured and mesoporous hybrid materials are synthesized by cooperative self-assembly in the presence of amphiphilic molecules acting as a supramolecular template. As these materials can have a broad possible structural configuration, the combined use of different analytical techniques is essential to given a quite deep understanding of their structure: solid state NMR spectroscopy and the vibrational spectroscopies will be considered hereafter, whose complementary use provided has been demonstrated highly significant to describe HOIM structure.

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  1. Laboratory of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, LMNT – D.A.D.U, University of Sassari and CR-INSTM, Palazzo Pou Salit, Piazza Duomo 6, 07041, Alghero, Sassari, Italy

    Plinio Innocenzi

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Giovanna Brusatin

  3. University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Massimo Guglielmi

  4. l’Institut des Matériaux de Paris-Centre, Paris, France

    Florence Babonneau

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Innocenzi, P., Brusatin, G., Guglielmi, M., Babonneau, F. (2016). Structural Characterization of Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Materials. In: Klein, L., Aparicio, M., Jitianu, A. (eds) Handbook of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19454-7_36-1

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