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In the ten years since the scientific rationale for the design,
synthesis and application of inorganic and organometallic polymers
(IOPs) was first conceptualised, we have witnessed the first
tentative exploration of IOPs as precursors to new materials, with
efforts focusing on the design and synthesis of novel ceramic
precursors. Developing expertise led to precursor studies combined
with the characterisation of the transformation processes that
occur when IOPs are converted to ceramic materials. Now at
maturity, the science presented in this volume reveals the polymer
precursor approach to materials synthesis together with examples of
processing ceramic shapes for a range of mechanical properties, the
development of sophisticated, noninvasive analytical techniques,
and IOP design rationales relying on well-defined
processing-property relationships. The production of
multifunctional IOPs is described, providing ion conductivity, gas
sensing, bioactivity, magnetic properties, etc., combined with
processability. The existence of well-defined IOPs and the
exquisite control that can be exerted on sol-gel systems now
provide access to such a variety of mixed organic-organometallic
and/or inorganic hybrid systems that their exploitation is likely
to develop into an entirely new field of materials chemistry.
Future exciting avenues of research are also being opened up with
the advent of buckyballs, Met-Cars, dopable preceramics, rigid-rod
organometallics, and molecular tinkertoys.
Although, carbon is only one of one hundred plus elements, the
polymer science lit erature consists primarily of studies on carbon
based polymers. In part, this reflects the varied feedstock sources
and in part, the type of bonds and bond forming reactions avail
able to form organic polymers that are not available to the
inorganic and organometallic chemist. However, recent intense
interest in polymers with novel optical, electronic or magnetic
properties or polymers that can serve as precursors to ceramic,
semiconductor, metallic or superconductor materials has served as a
driver for the development of novel synthetic routes and
characterization techniques that have launched many new inorganic
and organometallic oligomers and polymer systems. The following
chapters represent an effort to provide an overview of several new
and continuing areas of development in inorganic and organometallic
polymer science. This book represents the second in a series of
books we have edited on inorganic and organometallic polymer
chemistry (1. Transformation of Organo-metallics into Common and
Exotic Materials, NATO ASI Series Vol 141. 3. Inorganic and
Organometallic Polymers with Special Properties, NATO ASI Series in
press). In this series, we attempt to develop, for the reader, an
understanding of the breadth, depth and potential of inorganic and
organometallic polymer science."
In the ten years since the scientific rationale for the design,
synthesis and application of inorganic and organometallic polymers
(IOPs) was first conceptualised, we have witnessed the first
tentative exploration of IOPs as precursors to new materials, with
efforts focusing on the design and synthesis of novel ceramic
precursors. Developing expertise led to precursor studies combined
with the characterisation of the transformation processes that
occur when IOPs are converted to ceramic materials. Now at
maturity, the science presented in this volume reveals the polymer
precursor approach to materials synthesis together with examples of
processing ceramic shapes for a range of mechanical properties, the
development of sophisticated, noninvasive analytical techniques,
and IOP design rationales relying on well-defined
processing-property relationships. The production of
multifunctional IOPs is described, providing ion conductivity, gas
sensing, bioactivity, magnetic properties, etc., combined with
processability. The existence of well-defined IOPs and the
exquisite control that can be exerted on sol-gel systems now
provide access to such a variety of mixed organic-organometallic
and/or inorganic hybrid systems that their exploitation is likely
to develop into an entirely new field of materials chemistry.
Future exciting avenues of research are also being opened up with
the advent of buckyballs, Met-Cars, dopable preceramics, rigid-rod
organometallics, and molecular tinkertoys.
Although, carbon is only one of one hundred plus elements, the
polymer science lit erature consists primarily of studies on carbon
based polymers. In part, this reflects the varied feedstock sources
and in part, the type of bonds and bond forming reactions avail
able to form organic polymers that are not available to the
inorganic and organometallic chemist. However, recent intense
interest in polymers with novel optical, electronic or magnetic
properties or polymers that can serve as precursors to ceramic,
semiconductor, metallic or superconductor materials has served as a
driver for the development of novel synthetic routes and
characterization techniques that have launched many new inorganic
and organometallic oligomers and polymer systems. The following
chapters represent an effort to provide an overview of several new
and continuing areas of development in inorganic and organometallic
polymer science. This book represents the second in a series of
books we have edited on inorganic and organometallic polymer
chemistry (1. Transformation of Organo-metallics into Common and
Exotic Materials, NATO ASI Series Vol 141. 3. Inorganic and
Organometallic Polymers with Special Properties, NATO ASI Series in
press). In this series, we attempt to develop, for the reader, an
understanding of the breadth, depth and potential of inorganic and
organometallic polymer science."
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