Abstract
Solid-state compounds have historically been prepared through high-temperature solid-solid reactions. New mechanistic understanding of these reactions suggests possible routes to metastable compositions and structures as well as to thermodynamically stable, low-temperature phases that decompose at higher temperatures. Intermediate-temperature synthetic techniques, including flux and hydrothermal methods, as well as low-temperature intercalation and coordination reactions, have recently been developed and have been used to prepare unprecedented materials with interesting electronic, optical, and catalytic properties. The trend in modern solid-state synthesis resembles increasingly the approach used in small-molecule chemistry, in the sense that attention to reaction mechanism and the use of molecular building blocks result in an ability to prepare new materials of designed structure.
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MetastabilitySolid-stateSolid-state chemistryNanotechnologyMaterials scienceMoleculeMechanism (biology)Chemical physicsIntercalation (chemistry)Hydrothermal circulationReaction mechanismCatalysisChemistryChemical engineeringPhysical chemistryInorganic chemistryPhysicsOrganic chemistry
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- 1993
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- 259
- Issue
- 5101
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- 1558-1564
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- 572
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Andreas Stein,
Steven W. Keller,
Thomas E. Mallouk
(1993).
Turning Down the Heat: Design and Mechanism in Solid-State Synthesis.
Science
, 259
(5101)
, 1558-1564.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.259.5101.1558
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- 10.1126/science.259.5101.1558