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Hybrid materials engineering in biology, chemistry and physics Citation for published version (APA): Leroux, F., Rabu, P., Sommerdijk, N. A. J. M., & Taubert, A. (2015). Hybrid materials engineering in biology, chemistry and physics. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, (7), 1086-1088. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201500098 DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201500098 Document status and date: Published: 01/03/2015 Document Version: Publisher’s PDF, also known as Version of Record (includes final page, issue and volume numbers) Please check the document version of this publication: • A submitted manuscript is the version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the publication, or visit the DOI to the publisher's website. • The final author version and the galley proof are versions of the publication after peer review. • The final published version features the final layout of the paper including the volume, issue and page numbers. Link to publication General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal. If the publication is distributed under the terms of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act, indicated by the “Taverne” license above, please follow below link for the End User Agreement: www.tue.nl/taverne Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us at: [email protected] providing details and we will investigate your claim. Download date: 08. Mar. 2019

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Hybrid materials engineering in biology, chemistry andphysicsCitation for published version (APA):Leroux, F., Rabu, P., Sommerdijk, N. A. J. M., & Taubert, A. (2015). Hybrid materials engineering in biology,chemistry and physics. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, (7), 1086-1088. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201500098

DOI:10.1002/ejic.201500098

Document status and date:Published: 01/03/2015

Document Version:Publisher’s PDF, also known as Version of Record (includes final page, issue and volume numbers)

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• A submitted manuscript is the version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can beimportant differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. Peopleinterested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the publication, or visit theDOI to the publisher's website.• The final author version and the galley proof are versions of the publication after peer review.• The final published version features the final layout of the paper including the volume, issue and pagenumbers.Link to publication

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CLUSTERISSUE

Hybrid Materials Engineering in Biology, Chemistry, andPhysics

Fabrice Leroux,*[a] Pierre Rabu,*[b] Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk,*[c]

and Andreas Taubert*[d]

Modern technologies have made their way into all areasof today’s life. Cell phones, fast internet, modern airplanes,or medical diagnostics have simplified many aspects of ourlives and will continue to change the way we live in thefuture. None of these developments are, however, possiblewithout the concomitant development of new advancedmaterials that are able to perform the tasks necessary forthe proper function of a specific device. Telecommunica-tion, health and environment, energy and transportation,and sustainability are just a few examples where new mate-rials have been key for technological advancement.

As many modern technologies require the combination ofseveral properties in one material, hybrid materials have be-come the focus of an ever-growing research communityworldwide. A particularly interesting and useful develop-ment is the blurring of the boundaries between the classicaldisciplines; nowadays, for example, the combination ofchemical synthesis and bioengineering approaches is a well-accepted and highly successful strategy for the developmentof advanced materials with a variety of tunable chemical,biological, and physical properties.

Accordingly, the number of conferences on the subject hasrapidly grown, covering all aspects of materials synthesis,characterization, and application. Starting in 2010, the

[a] Inorganic Materials, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand(ICCF) – UMR CNRS 6296, Université Blaise Pascal,Chimie 5, Campus des Cézeaux, 24 avenue des LandaisBP 80026 63171 Aubière Cedex, FranceE-mail: [email protected]://iccf.univ-bpclermont.fr/spip.php?article166

[b] Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux, DCMI,23 Rue du Loess, F-67034 Strasbourg, FranceE-mail: [email protected]://www.ipcms.unistra.fr/?page_id=11205

[c] Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistryand Institute for Complex Molecular Systems,Eindhoven University of Technology,P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The NetherlandsE-mail: [email protected]://www.biomineralization.nl/general/our_group/tue.html

[d] Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam,Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, GermanyE-mail: [email protected]

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European Materials Research Society has held three suc-cessful symposia on hybrid materials. At the E-MRS SpringMeeting 2014 in Lille, the third symposium of the series,“Symposium Q: Hybrid materials engineering in biology,chemistry and physics”, took place. With over 240 abstractsreceived, the symposium was among the four largest sym-posia at the meeting. The organizers, Fabrice Leroux(Clermont-Ferrand, France), Pierre Rabu (Strasbourg,France), Nico Sommerdijk (Eindhoven, The Netherlands),and Andreas Taubert (Potsdam, Germany) therefore had alarge selection of excellent abstracts to consider for oral andposter contributions, no easy task given the tight scheduleof the meeting. Certainly the key challenge in selecting theoral contributions was the fact that there were about 2.5times more applications for oral contributions thanavailable slots.

The abstracts submitted to the symposium covered a widerange of topics from synthesis, high-end characterization,theory, and simulation, to a widespread set of applications.As the main goal of the symposium was to connect re-searchers active in different subfields of the hybrid materialsfield, the organizers also invited a set of speakers to high-light the different aspects, to inspire the community intonew and promising directions. The symposium openerprovided an in-depth overview of materials design usingsol–gel approaches towards hybrid materials for plenty ofapplications. Two lectures highlighted new developments inbiologically inspired hybrid materials: one focused on thesynthesis, mainly using calcium carbonate as the inorganiccomponent and various organic matrices and inclusions,and the other on the applications of biomineralization-in-spired chemistry, presenting new insights into the formationand tuning of calcium phosphate cements. Advanced mate-rials based on graphene and inorganic components consti-tute an important topic in hybrid materials, which was em-phasized by the large set of applications from biology toenergy that were presented. The aspect of magnetic materi-als received attention with lectures on new stimuli-respon-sive magnetic materials and the coupling of magnetic andelectrical properties with appropriate surfaces. The synthe-sis of nanoparticles also focused on two widely differing

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aspects: the design of metal alloy nanoparticles and hownanoparticles can be assembled into functional hybridstructures with high order. On the topic of materials analy-sis, the use of scanning probe techniques for in-depth char-acterization of perovskite surfaces was discussed.

In addition to the above, some invited lectures are repre-sented in this issue. Verónica de Zea Bermudez (Vila Real,Portugal) and a very collaborative team present the synthe-sis of sol–gel self-assembly-driven hybrid materials, andGuido Kickelbick and Tom Engel (Saarbrücken, Germany)report on new self-healing materials based on silsesquiox-ane nanoarchitectures. The invited lecture that concludedthe symposium showed how bioinspiration can lead to spe-cific highly successful applications, focusing on the exampleof how surfaces can be modified with hybrid materials todramatically reduce biofouling on ship hulls and other sur-faces. Besides the invited speakers, the symposium alsohosted high-quality contributed talks and two very largeand successful poster sessions, resulting in many discussionsand a number of new collaborations.

To carry the impact of the symposium even further, thesymposium organizers and the European Journal of Inor-ganic Chemistry joined forces to produce a Cluster Issue onthe general subject of hybrid materials highlighting thepower of these materials for all aspects of modern technol-ogy. To that end, all contributors of Symposium Q wereinvited to submit an article to the Cluster Issue, but to pro-vide an even broader view of the field the invitation wasextended to eminent scientists around the world. As a re-sult, the Cluster Issue that is now in your hands coversmany aspects of hybrid materials research and develop-ment.

For reasons of space, we cannot introduce every article inthe Cluster Issue but would like to select some examplesthat, together with the invited lectures, illustrate the breadthof the topics. Garcia and coworkers describe the synthesisof a coordination polymer that can be transformed into

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nickel nanoparticles, a true materials-by-design approach.Walter and Zahn describe how bismuth oxide nuclei formand how the formation of the nuclei is affected by nitrateions; this study provides useful information for experimen-talists trying to control particle formation processes. Neira-Carrillo and colleagues describe a new additive for calciumoxalate precipitation, a study that could be useful for medi-cal applications. On an entirely different topic, Xie and Sureview recent developments on how to use ionic liquids fortailoring the structure and properties of carbon-based mate-rials. Rocha and colleagues evaluate methods to calculateoptical properties of a set of lanthanide-based materials,illustrating the useful additional information or indepen-dent confirmation of experimental data that calculationsoften provide. Hwang and colleagues introduce interestinginorganic–inorganic hybrid materials for CO2 adsorption,showing that the term “hybrid material” is quite broad andextends beyond organic–inorganic hybrid materials.

These are just a few examples highlighting the creativityand imagination of chemists when it comes to the develop-ment of new advanced materials. Before concluding, thesymposium organizers and guest editors of this issue wouldlike to state that such a symposium and therefore also thisCluster Issue is only possible through cooperation andscientific exchange: “Japan in Motion”, a parallel sym-posium at the E-MRS Meeting, assembled a large group ofhigh-profile contributions from Japan. Two of these contri-butions were hosted by Symposium Q. Finally, funding isalways a key issue, and the guest editors are happy toacknowledge financial support from COST MP1202, whichenabled some of the participants to attend this highlysuccessful symposium.

As the guest editors, we would like to thank all con-tributors to Symposium Q and to the Cluster Issue formaking both a success. We also invite all readers to browsethe Cluster Issue, set up collaborations with the authors,and advance the field by actively contributing new research.

Received: January 26, 2015