Tuesday publication post! 📖 The chimie-douce (soft chemistry) route is a powerful way to synthesize inorganic and hybrid materials under mild conditions. This newest publication from Charles Sidhoum, Dris Ihiawakrim, Mohamed Haouas, Doru Constantin, François Schosseler, Mateusz Odziomek, Kahina Vertchik, Amélie Leforestier, Clément Sanchez, and Ovidiu Ersen, focuses on synthesizing tungsten oxide and following the process using complimentary techniques.
Using in situ liquid-phase TEM with Poseidon AX, researchers from the IPCMS were able to directly observe the dynamic formation process at the nanoscale:
💧 Capture the earliest stages of material nucleation in liquid
📈 Track the growth of nanoscale clusters into larger networks
🔬 Reveal how these assemblies eventually form a dense gel structure
This correlative, multiscale approach—combining in situ microscopy, scattering, diffraction, and spectroscopy—provides unprecedented insight into gel formation pathways.
With Poseidon AX, researchers can capture real-time transformations in liquid environments, gaining a deeper understanding of how nanomaterials assemble and evolve.
Want to read the entire work?
Find it here:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c03003
