Acidic and basic molecules are antagonistic, and keeping them in their place is no easy job — unless, it seems, one unites them under the tutelage of ordered, nanoporous materials known as organosilicas.
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Jaroniec, M. Organosilica the conciliator. Nature 442, 638–640 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/442638a
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