Hybrid uranyl-vanadium nano-wheels.

G A Senchyk1, E M Wylie, S Prizio

  • 1Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA. pburns@nd.edu.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 27, 2015
PubMed
Summary

Researchers synthesized novel hybrid uranyl-vanadium oxide clusters by dissolving uranyl nitrate in an ionic liquid with vanadium. The presence of sulfate ions influenced the resulting cluster structures, yielding distinct wheel-shaped or cage-like formations.