The non-templated empty cavity and its selective anion binding despite having similar shapes.
An inorganic tennis ball with an empty cavity was formed without any assistance of guest molecules, and found to bind various anions selectively depending on their size and copper-anion interaction strengths without much change of the shapes.
Kim
Kwan Mook
KM
Life Science Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 130-650, Korea. kkmook@kist.re.kr
Kim
Ki-Hyun
KH
Kang
Tae Yi
TY
Park
Jung Su
JS
Song
Rita
R
Jun
Moo-Jin
MJ