title: Morphogenesis of polyoxometalate cluster-based materials to microtubular network architectures.
abstract: Pressed pellets of polyoxometalate (POM)-based materials are shown to undergo morphogenesis to produce microtubular network architectures without the need for a large single crystal precursor. The compression of the POM material into a pellet lowers the solubility sufficiently to allow tube initiation and growth from POMs that would otherwise be too soluble in their native crystalline state, thus yielding hollow, highly controllable, tubes of diameter 10-100 μm.
authors.affiliation: WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK.
authors.forename: Antoine G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Boulay
authors.forename: Geoffrey J T
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Leroy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cronin
mesh_terms: D002412:Cations / Q000737:chemistry; D003460:Crystallization; D012995:Solubility; D017973:Tungsten Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D000099294:Polyoxometalates
chemical_list: D002412:Cations; D017973:Tungsten Compounds; C102296:polyoxometalate I; D000099294:Polyoxometalates