Issue 39, 2015

An overview of selected current approaches to the characterization of aqueous inorganic clusters

Abstract

This Perspective article highlights some of the traditional and non-traditional analytical tools that are presently used to characterize aqueous inorganic nanoscale clusters and polyoxometalate ions. The techniques discussed in this article include nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), dynamic and phase analysis light scattering (DLS and PALS), Raman spectroscopy, and quantum mechanical computations (QMC). For each method we briefly describe how it functions and illustrate how these techniques are used to study cluster species in the solid state and in solution through several representative case studies. In addition to highlighting the utility of these techniques, we also discuss limitations of each approach and measures that can be applied to circumvent such limits as it pertains to aqueous inorganic cluster characterization.

Graphical abstract: An overview of selected current approaches to the characterization of aqueous inorganic clusters

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
08 Apr 2015
Accepted
23 Jun 2015
First published
27 Jul 2015

Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 16982-17006

Author version available

An overview of selected current approaches to the characterization of aqueous inorganic clusters

M. N. Jackson, M. K. Kamunde-Devonish, B. A. Hammann, L. A. Wills, L. B. Fullmer, S. E. Hayes, P. H.-Y. Cheong, W. H. Casey, M. Nyman and D. W. Johnson, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 16982 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT01268F

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