Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Non-aqueous selective synthesis of orthosilicic acid and its oligomers

  • Masayasu Igarashi,
  • Tomohiro Matsumoto,
  • Fujio Yagihashi,
  • Hiroshi Yamashita,
  • Takashi Ohhara,
  • Takayasu Hanashima,
  • Akiko Nakao,
  • Taketo Moyoshi,
  • Kazuhiko Sato,
  • Shigeru Shimada

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00168-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Orthosilicic acid is essential to many natural and synthetic materials but notoriously difficult to isolate, limiting its use in materials synthesis. Here, the authors successfully synthesize and stabilize orthosilicic acid and its oligomers, making available a new family of building blocks for silicon oxide-based materials.