Micro/Nanocrystal Conversion beyond Inorganic Nanostructures

It has been widely demonstrated that the preformed inorganic nanoparticles can be converted into more complicated nanocrystalline solids through chemical reaction, it should be reasonable to predict that organic particles could also possess this ability to perform chemical conversion. This chapter summarizes the current progress in the chemical conversion field among organic micro/nanocrystals as well as inorganic-organic hybrid micro/nanostructures. It reviews the changes of physical properties of as-prepared micro/nanomaterials. The chapter introduces the chemical reactions among organic and organic/inorganic hybrid micro/nanostructures and the recent progress on construct organic and organic/inorganic hybrid micro/nanostructures by using chemical reaction method. It presents the properties and applications of the organic and organic/inorganic hybrid micro/nanostructures. The conversion of organic and organic/inorganic hybrid micro/nanostructures could offer a new route for preparing new organic and organic/inorganic hybrid micro/nanostructures and tuning their physical properties through the ions or organic ligands exchange or phototransformation.