Making Crystals by Design: Methods, Techniques and Applications

The field of crystal engineering has reached a new level of maturity and demands for a book that provides a state-of-art overview of the field together with a tutorial approach to methods and techniques.

From design and preparation to spectroscopy and applications, this excellent handbook both covers and evaluates all of the manifold aspects of modern crystal engineering. Clearly structured, it summarizes the current status as seen from its various angles, comparing different techniques that are required to tackle successfully solid state synthesis, characterization of solids and evaluation of properties.

An essential source of high quality information for everyone working in this booming and interdisciplinary field: spectroscopists, physical and inorganic chemists as well as materials scientists working in nanotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry.

From the Contents:

• GEOMETRY AND ENERGETICS: Supramolecular Interactions; Intermolecular Interactions in Molecular Crystals; Networks, Topologies and Entanglements
• DESIGN AND REACTIVITY: Prediction of Reactivity in Solid-state Chemistry; Making Crystals by Reacting Crystals and by Reactions in Crystals; Making Coordination Frameworks; Assembly of Molecular Solids via Non-covalent Interactions
• CHARACTERIZATIONS AND APPLICATIONS: Diffraction Studies in Crystal Engineering; Solid State NMR; Crystal Polymorphism; Nanoporosity, Gas Storage, Gas Sensing