title: Applications of advanced hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials: from laboratory to market.
abstract: Today cross-cutting approaches, where molecular engineering and clever processing are synergistically coupled, allow the chemist to tailor complex hybrid systems of various shapes with perfect mastery at different size scales, composition, functionality, and morphology. Hybrid materials with organic-inorganic or bio-inorganic character represent not only a new field of basic research but also, via their remarkable new properties and multifunctional nature, hybrids offer prospects for many new applications in extremely diverse fields. The description and discussion of the major applications of hybrid inorganic-organic (or biologic) materials are the major topic of this critical review. Indeed, today the very large set of accessible hybrid materials span a wide spectrum of properties which yield the emergence of innovative industrial applications in various domains such as optics, micro-electronics, transportation, health, energy, housing, and the environment among others (526 references).
authors.affiliation: UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7574, Laboratoire Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris, Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot F-75231 cedex 05, Paris, France. clement.sanchez@upmc.fr
authors.forename: Clément
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sanchez
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Belleville
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Popall
authors.forename: Lionel
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nicole