Inorganic nanotubes formation through the synergic evolution of dynamic templates and metallophosphates: from vesicles to nanotubes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Sep 28;47(36):10061-3. doi: 10.1039/c1cc12850g. Epub 2011 Aug 9.

Abstract

A novel synergic evolution of dynamic assembly, from vesicles to nanotubes, between the metallophosphates and organic amines, is disclosed, by which the multicomponent metallophosphate (Cu(2)(OH)PO(4)) nanotubes are synthesized for the first time.