Issue 9, 2016

An all-inorganic polyoxometalate–polyoxocation chemical garden

Abstract

Herein, we show it is possible to produce wholly inorganic chemical gardens from a cationic polyoxometalate (POM) seed in an anionic POM solution, demonstrating a wholly POM-based chemical garden system that produces architectures over a wide concentration range. Six concentration dependent growth regimes have been discovered and characterized: clouds, membranes, slugs, tubes, jetting and budding.

Graphical abstract: An all-inorganic polyoxometalate–polyoxocation chemical garden

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Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Nov 2015
Accepted
04 Dec 2015
First published
07 Dec 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 1911-1914

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An all-inorganic polyoxometalate–polyoxocation chemical garden

L. J. Points, G. J. T. Cooper, A. Dolbecq, P. Mialane and L. Cronin, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 1911 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC09536K

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