Engineering of Crystalline Materials Properties

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Biomineralization Design Strategies and Mechanisms of Mineral Formation: Operating at the Edge of Instability

   • Lia Addadi, Yael Politi, Fabio Nudelman, Steve Weiner

   Pages 1-15

3. Self-Assembled Monolayers as Templates for Inorganic Crystallization: a Bio-Inspired Approach

   • Joanna Aizenberg

   Pages 17-32

4. Databases in Crystal Engineering

   • Alessia Bacchi

   Pages 33-58

5. Case Studies on Intermolecular Interactions in Crystalline Metals

   • Patrick Batail

   Pages 59-86

6. Crystal Polymorphism

   • Joel Bernstein

   Pages 87-109

7. Complementarity: Correlating Structural Features with Physical Properties in Supramolecular Systems

   • Susan A. Bourne

   Pages 111-129

8. Making Crystals from Crystals: A Solid-State Route to the Engineering of Crystalline Materials, Polymorphs, Solvates and Co-Crystals; Considerations on the Future of Crystal Engineering

   • Dario Braga, Marco Curzi, Elena Dichiarante, Stefano Luca Giaffreda, Fabrizia Grepioni, Lucia Maini et al.

   Pages 131-156

9. Nanostructured Frameworks for Materials Applications

   • Neil R. Champness

   Pages 157-171

10. Crystal Engineering of Multifunctional Molecular Materials

    • Eugenio Coronado, Carlos Giménez-Saiz, Carlos Martí-Gastaldo

    Pages 173-191

11. Topological Approaches to the Structure of Crystalline and Amorphous Atom Assemblies

    • Linn W. Hobbs

    Pages 193-230

12. Hydrogen-Bonded Crystals of Exceptional Dielectric Properties

    • Andrzej Katrusiak

    Pages 231-250

13. Chirality In Crystals

    • Reiko Kuroda

    Pages 251-270

14. Design, Characterization and Use of Crystalline Thin Film Architectures at the Air-Liquid Interface

    • Leslie Leiserowitz, Isabelle Weissbuch, Meir Lahav

    Pages 271-290

15. Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Molecule-Based Magnets

    • Joel S. Miller

    Pages 291-306

16. From Bonds to Packing: An Energy-Based Crystal Packing Analysis for Molecular Crystals Packing Analysis for Molecular Crystals

    • Juan J. Novoa*, Emiliana D'Oria

    Pages 307-332

17. On the Calculation and Interpretation of Crystal Energy Landscapes

    • Sarah L. Price

    Pages 333-349

18. NMR Crystallography and the Elucidation of Structure-Property Relationships in Crystalline Solids

    • Susan M. Reutzel-Edens

    Pages 351-374

19. Organic Materials for Nonlinear Optics

    • M. Blanca Ros

    Pages 375-390

20. Building Conducting Materials from Design to Devices

    • Concepció Rovira

    Pages 391-405

This volume collects the lecture notes (ordered alphabetically according to the first author surname) of the talks delivered by the main speakers at the Erice 2007 International School of Crystallography, generously selected by NATO as an Advanced Study Institute (# 982582). The aim of the school was to discuss the state-of-the-art in molecular materials design, that is, the rational analysis and fabrication of crystalline solids showing a predefined structural organization of their component molecules and ions, which results in the manifestation of a specific collective property of technological interest. The School was held on June 7–17, 2007, in Erice (an old town, over 3000 years, located on the top of a Sicilian hill that oversees the sea near Trapani). The school developed following two parallel lines. First we established “where we are” in terms of modelling, design, synthesis and applications of crystalline solids with predefined properties. Second, we attempted to define current and possible futuristic lines of development in the quest for novel molecule-based materials with potential applications in magnetism, conductivity and superconductivity, non-lineal optics (NLO), drug delivery, and nanotechnology. In recent years, solid state chemistry and crystal engineering have evolved at the intersection between the top-down and bottom-up approaches towards materials design and fabrication. An ever-increasing number of scientists are learning how to control self-assembly, molecular recognition, and other fundamental processes on the way to achieving ‘tailor-made’ materials, such as crystal nucleation, crystal growth, and polymorphism.

• Biophysics
• NATO
• Physics
• Powder diffraction
• Science
• Security
• Sub-Series B
• crystallography
• optics
• thin film

• University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Juan J. Novoa

• University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  Dario Braga

• Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

  Lia Addadi

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