An Inorganic Tire-Tread Lattice: Hydrothermal Synthesis of the Layered Vanadate
Two distinct V(9)O(23) building blocks having different vanadium coordination environments are intergrown in the unusual layered vanadate [N(CH(3))(4)](5)V(18)O(46) (see picture). Lattice strain is relieved by alternation of the vanadate strips formed from the blocks in both directions (akin to a three-dimensional tire tread). The formation of this lattice has implications for the assembly mechanism of this compound and related materials in hydrothermal synthesis.
Koene
BE
Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 (Canada).
Taylor
NJ
Nazar
LF