Synthesis is the gateway to new materials, and design strategies that provide a rational synthetic framework are critical for accessing increasingly complex solids and nanostructures.  We have been developing a library of chemical design tools that conceptually parallels some of the principles that guide molecular organic synthesis.  We use these tools to design new solids with structures that are inaccessible using more traditional methods, as well as new nanoscale heterostructures that contain multiple materials components with pre-defined spatial organization.  This talk will highlight recent results involving the use of nanoparticle templates to synthesize new solids that are not accessible using traditional high-temperature synthesis routes.  This talk will also describe a new �total synthesis� paradigm for the synthesis of complex colloidal hybrid nanoparticles:  heterodimers, heterotrimers, and heterotetramers that can be synthesized predictably and in a stepwise manner using solid-state analogues of orthogonal reactivity, site-specific reactivity, chemoselectivity, substituent effects, and coupling reactions.

Award Address  (National Fresenius Award sponsored by Phi Lambda Upsilon, The National Chemistry Honor Society). Synthetic design tools for complex inorganic solids and nanostructures

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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