Glass is an integral part of the amorphous materials family that has shown great potential in applications ranging from daily life to high-tech fields such as healthcare, architecture, aerospace, and automotive industries due to its hardness, high transparency, and good processability. Compared with traditional systems, hybrid glasses assembled by inorganic and organic units at the molecular level provide more freedom for compositional variation, mass/photon/electron transport, shaping ability, accessible phase transition, and mechanical properties. Owing to the absence of a unique crystallographic unit cell, the nature of glass, as well as the glass transition, is one of the deepest and most interesting unsolved scientific problems. Meanwhile, the dynamics and thermodynamics of glasses are not fully understood because of their structural complexity. This review gives a timely summary of the development of inorganic-organic hybrid glasses during the last few years in terms of materials classifications, design strategies, and synthesis methods together with particularly important photonic applications. Last but not least, we provide a discussion of helpful guidance, perspectives, and challenges for developing high-performance inorganic-organic hybrid glasses.

玻璃是非晶材料家族的重要组成部分，由于其硬度、高透明度和良好的加工性能，在从日常生活到医疗保健、建筑、航空航天和汽车工业等高科技领域的应用中显示出巨大的潜力。与传统系统相比，由无机和有机单元在分子水平组装而成的混合玻璃为成分变化、质量/光子/电子传输、成型能力、可实现的相变和机械性能提供了更大的自由度。由于缺乏独特的晶体晶胞，玻璃的性质以及玻璃化转变是最深刻、最有趣的未解决的科学问题之一。同时，由于玻璃结构的复杂性，其动力学和热力学尚未完全被理解。本文从材料分类、设计策略、合成方法以及特别重要的光子应用等方面及时总结了近几年无机-有机杂化玻璃的发展。最后但并非最不重要的一点是，我们讨论了开发高性能无机-有机混合玻璃的有用指导、观点和挑战。