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Harshita Kumari1, Ping Jin, Simon J Teat
1Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, 601 S. College Avenue, Columbia, MO 65211 (USA).
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|October 10, 2014
Abstract:
Anions play a crucial role in locking alkali metals on the interior of metal-organic capsules that contain structural water gates. This role is further evidenced when stitching-up the capsule seam, resulting in either expulsion or trapping of cesium ions depending on the anion employed.

