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Inside Back Cover: Manipulation of Shell Morphology of Silicate Spheres from Structural Evolution in a Purely Inorganic System (Chem. Asian J. 6/2015)
Author(s) -
Ji Qingmin,
Ishihara Shinsuke,
Terentyeva Tatyana G.,
Deguchi Kenzo,
Ohki Shinobu,
Tansho Masataka,
Shimizu Tadashi,
Hill Jonathan P.,
Ariga Katsuhiko
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemistry – an asian journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.18
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1861-471X
pISSN - 1861-4728
DOI - 10.1002/asia.201580603
Subject(s) - silicate , cover (algebra) , morphology (biology) , nanotechnology , nanostructure , materials science , transformation (genetics) , chemical engineering , chemistry , geology , engineering , mechanical engineering , paleontology , biochemistry , gene
Nanostructures The manipulation of structures at multiple scale levels to achieve hierarchical complex morphologies with various features and attractive properties has become one of the essential aims of nanoscience, nanotechnology, and materials science. In their Full Paper on page 1379, Qingmin Ji, Katsuhiko Ariga et al. report on the transformation of a simple silicate structure into a much more complex spherical structure involving a purely inorganic reaction system. This transformation, with inspiration from the familiar life cycle of frogs, is illustrated on the Inside Back Cover.