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Molecular Engineering of Metal Alkoxides for Solution Phase Synthesis of High‐Tech Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
Author(s) -
Mishra Shashank,
Daniele Stéphane
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.202000534
Subject(s) - nanomaterials , nanotechnology , materials science , stoichiometry , oxide , molecular engineering , alkoxide , metal , chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , metallurgy
The ‘bottom‐up’ synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials with precision at the atomic/molecular level offers many opportunities for the design and improvement of the nanomaterials for various applications. Molecular engineering during soft chemical processing for the synthesis of functional nanomaterials enables the desired chemical and physical properties of the precursors, such as solubility or volatility, clean decomposition, control of stoichiometry for multimetallic species to name a few, and leads to easy control of uniform particle size distribution, stoichiometry…. This Minireview illustrates some important aspects of the molecular engineering in light of some recent developments from the molecular synthesis of nanomaterials involving non‐silicon metal alkoxide systems for high‐tech applications.