field of research is going to continue to grow and flourish and hope that some of
the most brilliant young minds will join efforts in the future to push the boundaries
of our knowledge and understanding and to translate the results into applications
that will benefit society.
Acknowledgements This article is based on research over a period of about 15 years in the
Wiesner group at the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Cornell University. The
work would have been impossible without the help of an enormous number of very motivated,
talented and enthusiastic students, postdocs, and collaborators at Cornell and beyond. Equally
important, the work was enabled by a continuous stream of financial support, for which we would
particularly like to thank the National Science Foundation via the Polymers Program within the
Division of Materials Research (current grant DMR-1104773). We thank Joerg Werner for
contributing to the lithium battery section.
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the most brilliant young minds will join efforts in the future to push the boundaries
of our knowledge and understanding and to translate the results into applications
that will benefit society.
Acknowledgements This article is based on research over a period of about 15 years in the
Wiesner group at the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Cornell University. The
work would have been impossible without the help of an enormous number of very motivated,
talented and enthusiastic students, postdocs, and collaborators at Cornell and beyond. Equally
important, the work was enabled by a continuous stream of financial support, for which we would
particularly like to thank the National Science Foundation via the Polymers Program within the
Division of Materials Research (current grant DMR-1104773). We thank Joerg Werner for
contributing to the lithium battery section.
References
1. Flory PJ (1953) Principles of polymer chemistry. Cornell University Press, Ithaca
2. Antonietti M (2013) Macromol Chem Phys 214:130. doi:10.1002/macp.201200589
3. Wu C (2013) Macromol Chem Phys 214:132. doi:10.1002/macp.201200417
4. Rurack K, Martı ´nez-Ma ´n ˜ez R, Wiley InterScience (Online service) (2010) The supramolecular
chemistry of organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Wiley, Hoboken
5. Tyler CA, Morse DC (2005) Phys Rev Lett 94:208302
6. Doi M, Edwards SF (1986) The theory of polymer dynamics. Clarendon and Oxford University Press, New York
7. Bates FS, Hillmyer MA, Lodge TP, Bates CM, Delaney KT, Fredrickson GH (2012) Science
336:434. doi:10.1126/science.1215368
8. Ott H, Abetz V, Altstaedt V (2001) Macromolecules 34:2121. doi:10.1021/ma0017079
9. Toombes GES, Mahajan S, Weyland M, Jain A, Du P, Kamperman M, Gruner SM, Muller DA,
Wiesner U (2008) Macromolecules 41:852. doi:10.1021/ma071004s
10. Li Z, Sai H, Warren SC, Kamperman M, Arora H, Gruner SM, Wiesner U (2009) Chem Mater
21:5578. doi:10.1021/cm9020673
11. Warren SC, DiSalvo FJ, Wiesner U (2007) Nat Mater 6:156
12. Bita I, Yang JKW, Jung YS, Ross CA, Thomas EL, Berggren KK (2008) Science 321:939.
doi:10.1126/science.1159352
13. Park S, Lee DH, Xu J, Kim B, Hong SW, Jeong U, Xu T, Russell TP (2009) Science 323:1030.
doi:10.1126/science.1168108
14. Garcia BC, Kamperman M, Ulrich R, Jain A, Gruner SM, Wiesner U (2009) Chem Mater
21:5397. doi:10.1021/cm901885c
15. Hur K, Francescato Y, Giannini V, Maier SA, Hennig RG, Wiesner U (2011) Angew Chem Int
Ed 50:11985. doi:10.1002/anie.201104888
16. Maldovan M, Urbas AM, Yufa N, Carter WC, Thomas EL (2002) Phys Rev B 65:165123
17. Cho BK, Jain A, Gruner SM, Wiesner U (2004) Science 305:1598. doi:10.1126/science.
1100872
18. Cochran EW, Garcia-Cervera CJ, Fredrickson GH (2006) Macromolecules 39:2449. doi:10.
1021/ma0527707
19. Saranathan V, Osuji CO, Mochrie SGJ, Noh H, Narayanan S, Sandy A, Dufresne ER, Prum RO
(2010) Proc Natl Acad Sci 107:11676. doi:10.1073/pnas.0909616107
20. Almsherqi Z, Margadant F, Deng Y (2012) Interface Focus 2:539. doi:10.1098/rsfs.2011.0120
Design and Applications of Multiscale Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials. . .
291