Making Crystals by Design: Methods, Techniques and Applications

An excellent overview of the manifold aspects of modern crystal engineering. From design and preparation to spectroscopy and applications, this handbook both covers and evaluates all aspects of crystal engineering. Clearly structured, it provides an overview of the current status as seen from its various angles as well as a comparison of different techniques and applications.
An essential source of high quality information for everyone working in this booming and interdisciplinary field: spectroscopists, physical and inorganic chemists as well as materials scientists working in nanotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry.

The field of crystal engineering has reached a new level of maturity and demands for a book that provides a state-of-art overview of the field together with a tutorial approach to methods and techniques.

From design and preparation to spectroscopy and applications, this excellent handbook both covers and evaluates all of the manifold aspects of modern crystal engineering. Clearly structured, it summarizes the current status as seen from its various angles, comparing different techniques that are required to tackle successfully solid state synthesis, characterization of solids and evaluation of properties.

An essential source of high quality information for everyone working in this booming and interdisciplinary field: spectroscopists, physical and inorganic chemists as well as materials scientists working in nanotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry.

From the Contents:

• GEOMETRY AND ENERGETICS: Supramolecular Interactions; Intermolecular Interactions in Molecular Crystals; Networks, Topologies and Entanglements

• DESIGN AND REACTIVITY: Prediction of Reactivity in Solid-state Chemistry; Making Crystals by Reacting Crystals and by Reactions in Crystals; Making Coordination Frameworks; Assembly of Molecular Solids via Non-covalent Interactions

• CHARACTERIZATIONS AND APPLICATIONS: Diffraction Studies in Crystal Engineering; Solid State NMR; Crystal Polymorphism; Nanoporosity, Gas Storage, Gas Sensing

Dario Braga is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bologna. He has published more than 300 papers in international journals and is the scientific editor of the RSC journal CrystEngComm. He has been awarded the Nasini Prize from the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Society of Chemistry and the FEDERCHIMICA prize from the Italian chemical industry. He is the current Director of the Collegio Superiore of the university of Bologna.

Fabrizia Grepioni held an associate professorship position at the University of Sassari from 1998 to 2004, and is now Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bologna. She has published more than 200 papers in international journals and has won the Nasini Prize from the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Society of Chemistry.