Materials chemistry: macroporous crystalline vanadium oxide foam.
Porous inorganic solids can be synthesized in complex forms, and here we describe a simple method to create an ultralight, macroporous, crystalline vanadium oxide foam by bubbling oxygen gas produced in situ through a viscous vanadium oxide gel. This foaming process could be extended to other metal oxides.
Chandrappa
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Chimie de la Matière Condensée, Université Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France.
Steunou
Nathalie
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Livage
Jacques
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