TY - JOUR
T1 - Engineering Crystal Properties through Solid Solutions
AU - Lusi, Matteo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2018/6/6
Y1 - 2018/6/6
N2 - The control of structures and properties in crystalline materials has many returns that justify the increasing efforts in this direction. Traditionally, crystal engineering focused on the rational design of single component molecular crystals or supramolecular compounds (i.e., cocrystals). More recently, reports on crystalline solid solutions have become common in crystal engineering research. Crystalline solid solutions are characterized by a structural disorder that enables the variation of stoichiometry in continuum. Often such variation corresponds to a variation of structural and physicochemical properties, and offers an opportunity for the materials' fine-tuning. In some cases, though, new and unexpected properties emerge. As illustrated here, both behaviors make solid solutions particularly relevant to the scope of crystal engineering.
AB - The control of structures and properties in crystalline materials has many returns that justify the increasing efforts in this direction. Traditionally, crystal engineering focused on the rational design of single component molecular crystals or supramolecular compounds (i.e., cocrystals). More recently, reports on crystalline solid solutions have become common in crystal engineering research. Crystalline solid solutions are characterized by a structural disorder that enables the variation of stoichiometry in continuum. Often such variation corresponds to a variation of structural and physicochemical properties, and offers an opportunity for the materials' fine-tuning. In some cases, though, new and unexpected properties emerge. As illustrated here, both behaviors make solid solutions particularly relevant to the scope of crystal engineering.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01643
DO - 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01643
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85046532509
SN - 1528-7483
VL - 18
SP - 3704
EP - 3712
JO - Crystal Growth and Design
JF - Crystal Growth and Design
IS - 6
ER -