A flow-system array for the discovery and scale up of inorganic clusters

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1037-1043

  Richmond, Craig J ^a   Miras, Haralampos N ^a   De La Oliva, Andreu Ruiz ^a   Zang, Hongying ^a   Sans, Victor ^a   Paramonov, Leonid ^b   Makatsoris, Charalampos ^b   Inglis, Ross ^c   Brechin, Euan K ^c   Long, De Liang ^a   Cronin, Leroy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUND; MOLYBDENUM; POLYOXOMETALATE I; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHEMISTRY; MAGNET;

AUTOMATION; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; MAGNETS; MOLYBDENUM; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; WATER;

EID: 84870161351     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1489     Document Type: Article

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