Strategies to Incorporate Mesoporosity - Mesoporous Organic-Inorganic Non-Siliceous Hybrid Materials - page 33

Fig. 3.6 a , b SEM and c , d TEM images of the NiPPH material, crystalline interplanar spacing of
0.185 nm is attributable to the (510) plane of Ni 3 (PO 4 ) 2 . e Formation and preparation process of
the nickel phosphate/phosphonate hybrid microspheres. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [ 33 ].
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rest of Ni 2 + . These phosphonate clusters attached and wrapped the phosphate
“nanoseeds” to generate core-shell-like secondary building blocks (SBB) under
the driving of intermolecular interaction, as depicted in Fig. 3.6 . Thereafter, phos-
phate/phosphonate SBB would self-assemble to hierarchical hybrid microspheres