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Synthesis and Applications of Hybrid Material

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 2282

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ICSM, Univ Montpellier, CEA, CNRS, ENSCM, France
Interests: sustainable design; supramolecular chemistry; organic chemistry; new materials; ionic liquids

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ICGM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, France
Interests: metal oxides and hybrids materials; hydrolytic and non-hydrolytic sol-gel method; nanocomposites; surface modification materials

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Organic–inorganic hybrids are attractive materials due to their versatility, which originates from the combination of their inorganic properties and their organic constituents. Hybrid materials have emerged as a significant contributor to advanced materials with promising application fields. The combination of inorganic and organic parts in hybrid materials allows one to associate an important variety of innovative properties, which can be used in a wide variety of applications, such as catalysis, coatings, optical properties, biomaterials, and separation processes.

Controlling the nanostructure, composition, and morphology of hybrid materials is of great interest for such properties. The bottom–up molecular and supramolecular approach, which includes templating, self-assembling, and post-synthetic modification methodologies, allow designing nanostructured and hierarchical hybrid materials.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences on the topic of “Synthesis and Applications of Hybrid Material” aims to explore recent advances in the development of hybrid materials that contribute to breakthroughs in different application domains. Strategies for, but not limited to, the construction of advanced ordered nanomaterials, such as molecular or supramolecular chemistry approaches are encouraged for submission.

Dr. Guilhem Arrachart
Dr. Johan Alauzun
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • characterization of hybrid materials
  • ordered materials
  • processing
  • self-assembling
  • templating
  • applied materials

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Selective Extraction of REEs Thanks to One-Pot Silica Hybrid Materials
by Robert Winkler, Stéphane Pellet-Rostaing and Guilhem Arrachart
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(21), 7558; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10217558 - 27 Oct 2020
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The importance of rare-earth elements (REEs) in the global economy is rapidly growing, since they are essential to many advanced technologies. Therefore, the development of more performant separation procedures for REEs has become necessary. In the present study, we used silica hybrid materials [...] Read more.
The importance of rare-earth elements (REEs) in the global economy is rapidly growing, since they are essential to many advanced technologies. Therefore, the development of more performant separation procedures for REEs has become necessary. In the present study, we used silica hybrid materials (SHMs), which were synthesized by an all-in-one approach that allows the direct incorporation of desired functional groups, as sorbent material. Promising results were obtained for the extraction capacities of diglycolamide-functionalized materials. Under the tested conditions, they showed high efficiency (Nd uptake capacity of about 25 mg per g of material) and high selectivity toward REEs from a simulated NdFeB magnet leachate. For these materials, Nd recovery after extraction was achieved with an efficiency of 80% by contacting the loaded material with distilled water at moderate pH (6.5). Full article
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