Fluorescent Crystalline Halides: Design, Synthesis and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 1007
Special Issue Editors
Interests: inorganic-organic hybrid material; metal chalcogenide; ionic liquid; metal halide; luminescence; single-crystal structure; ion exchange
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is concentrated on the design, synthesis, and applications of fluorescent crystalline metal halides. Crystalline metal halides generally refer to a compound with the chemical formula of AmBXn (A = cation, B = metal ion, X = halide anion). They can be synthesized by different methods, such as solvothermal, solvent evaporation, and solid-state reactions, and their structures can be determined via single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Two main classes of crystalline halides can be distinguished: inorganic crystalline metal halides and organic–inorganic hybrid crystalline metal halides. The latter are characterized by great structural diversity and the existence of abundant supramolecular interactions. Moreover, the fluorescent properties of the titular crystals can be tuned as desired through cation modification, anion modulation, and composition engineering, leading to a variety of applications such as light emitting, X-ray detection, and information coding. Their study opens up new prospects in material science and structural chemistry.
Prof. Dr. Xiaoying Huang
Prof. Dr. Kezhao Du
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal halides
- fluorescence
- single crystal
- supramolecular interactions
- optical applications
- structure–property relationship
