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Charge-modulated self-assembly and growth of conjugated polyelectrolyte-polyoxometalate hybrid networks
Judith E Houston1, Adam R Patterson, Anil C Jayasundera
1School of Chemistry, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. raevans@tcd.ie.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 17, 2013
Abstract:
Self-assembly of an anionic polyoxometalate with cationic conjugated polyelectrolytes leads to hybrid supramolecular networks whose dimensionality is controlled by the chain length and steric charge distribution.
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