caa a22 4500 388075074 CHVBK 20180307125158.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1557/S0883769400052301 doi S0883769400052301 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1557/S0883769400052301 Partially Disordered Inorganic Materials [Elektronische Daten] It is widely recognized that the presence of defects in crystals and other solid materials can have a profound effect upon their chemical and physical properties and, consequently, that defects have a major impact on the practical utility of many technological materials. The presence of defects in a crystalline material implies the presence of disorder, and the extent of such disorder can range from very minor, such as the occurrence of Schottky defects in a crystal of sodium chloride, to maximum disorder, as in an amorphous material. The focus of this overview is on systems that are partially disordered, spanning the range between—but not including—sodium chloride and an amorphous material. Even within this range, the aim is not to be comprehensive, since for space reasons we have restricted our coverage to inorganic materials and hybrid inorganic-organic systems. The choice of this topic stems from both its fundamental and practical importance; it is also a very timely topic. For example, there is a great deal of current interest in complex, partially ordered materials such as the surfactant-mediated mesoporous silicas, biominerals, and hybrid organic-inorganic composites. Research on such materials has presented challenges that cannot easily be addressed by characterization tools that have been developed for well-ordered materials. The same situation is found in other areas such as carbons (including nanotubes) and glassy metal oxides. Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999 Eckert J. Stucky G.D. Cheetham A.K. MRS Bulletin Cambridge University Press 24/5(1999-05), 31-41 0883-7694 24:5<31 1999 24 MRS https://doi.org/10.1557/S0883769400052301 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1557/S0883769400052301 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eckert J. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stucky G.D. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cheetham A.K. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- MRS Bulletin Cambridge University Press 24/5(1999-05), 31-41 0883-7694 24:5<31 1999 24 MRS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge