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Published on: April 28, 2014
Self-organization of all-inorganic dodecatungstophosphate nanocrystallites
Keigo Okamoto1, Sayaka Uchida, Takeru Ito
1Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Abstract:
The crystallinity and porosity of all-inorganic dodecatungstophosphate M3PW12O40 (M=Cs, NH4, Ag, denoted as MPW) particles are controlled by the changes in the synthetic temperatures and countercations. The MPW particles can be classified into three groups by the crystallinity and porosity: (i) mesoporous "disordered" aggregates, (ii) microporous "self-organized" aggregates, and (iii) nonporous single crystals. The formation and growth mechanism of MPW particles is expressed by three steps: formation of nanocrystallites, assembly of the nanocrystallites to form aggregates, and the growth of aggregates by the attachment of nanocrystallites. The time courses of the turbidity of the synthetic solution, the concentration of the nanocrystallites, and the average particle sizes of MPW particles are well reproduced by the calculation based on the mechanism.
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